Zheng Hongyi's face froze.
Chen Yan's blunt remarks made him feel very embarrassed.
He was quite unprepared for such a situation.
Because in his impression, it should not be difficult to deal with such an early-stage startup company.
Almost all early-stage companies are short of money; the only difference is how much they lack.
Rich people like him who can always come up with cash for angel investment are the ones that every young person who wants to start a business must curry favor with.
But who could have expected that in the past, others would beg him to invest money, but he would still be picky and take a large share of the dividends on shares and investment amount.
As a result, when he finally found a project he liked, others were dismissive of him...
The expression on his face changed, but Zheng Hongyi still didn't want to give up such a rare opportunity.
He had a hunch that if he could take over this 'boundless dimension' platform, then after a period of operation and promotion, 365 Technology would definitely find an opportunity to overtake others!
By then, 365 Technology will definitely become one of the new three major Internet companies!
And with the powerful working ability demonstrated by the 'Boundless Dimension' platform, it is definitely not impossible for their 365 Technology to soar to the top of the three major companies directly by relying on the bonus of this track!
He has already seen such an opportunity, how could he give it up easily?
Thinking of this, Zheng Hongyi took another deep breath and said in a deep voice, "If you are not satisfied with the price, we can slowly discuss it. Although your company currently only has one product, 'Boundless Dimension', and the product itself has many shortcomings, I am willing to pay a premium for its shining points.
I'm not going to test you guys anymore. It's pointless, and everyone's busy. I'm going to give you a sincere offer. 40 million for 40% of the shares. And of that 40 million, you can cash it out directly. Just keep 20 million in the company account.
This means your company has only been established for less than two weeks, and I've already valued it at 100 million! Believe me, no one else can give you such a valuation at the angel round level! This is a rare opportunity for you. If you don't seize it, you will definitely regret it later!
Building a platform like "Boundless Dimension" isn't difficult; maintaining it is challenging. Growth requires promotion, which costs money. Furthermore, once promotion is achieved, the challenge is user growth. This growth in users places higher demands on the platform's hardware.
You're still young, and your perspective tends to be one-sided, thinking that technology can solve all your problems. I used to be like you, so I understand your thinking. But the reality is, technology can't solve everything. Have you ever considered how much it costs to iterate on hardware? It's astronomical!
Chen Yan couldn't help but curl his lips as he listened to this so-called advice that sounded very much like his father.
He couldn't say that Zheng Hongyi's idea was wrong.
If we extrapolate based on normal circumstances, they are indeed short of money.
But the reality is that his current condition is not normal!
The 'Boundless Dimension' platform is a bankrupt version of the 'AI' language model that 'hopes' to be created after a lot of castration based on itself.
Building this large language model did not incur any R&D or human resource costs.
Subsequent platform upgrades, training, iterative evolution, and user request reasoning during operations do not require any hardware or software costs. They can be easily handled by relying entirely on "Hope" in the God mode of the Internet!
These things are a huge cost burden for other companies entering this track, but for Chen Yan, they can be completely ignored!
The actual financial cost that the "Boundless Dimension" platform needs to spend in the current time and space is mainly the server data center cost, information storage cost and network cost that will have to be continuously expanded as the number of users increases in the future.
These costs are not particularly high in the early stages. At least relying on the royalties that Chen Yan is about to receive and the funds invested by Chu Yinyin, they are enough to cover the initial capital investment.
As for the cost of the collection figures that will soar in the later stage as the number of users increases, it can be fully covered and generated through value-added services for users.
Of course, if you want to make users willing to pay, the platform must first be good enough.
At least compared with other similar platforms, it must have essential and irreplaceable advantages to achieve this.
At this point, with the support of "hope", Chen Yan has nothing to worry about!
"Mr. Zheng, I don't want to repeat the same thing over and over again. You're a graduate of a top university, so you shouldn't be so incomprehensible. Let me explain one last time: we don't need any investment. Whether it's four million, forty million, four hundred million, or four billion, we don't need it. If you continue to pester me, we'll have no choice but to file a police report for harassment. I'm sure you don't want to be taken into custody to assist in the investigation, do you?"
Chen Yan really didn't want to continue wasting time with Zheng Hongyi.
Although Chu Yinyin didn't want to offend the other party at first, she was more friendly in her attitude.
But Zheng Hongyi's "daddy vibe" was so strong that Chen Yan couldn't help feeling disgusted.
They clearly came here to seek investment opportunities, but they insisted on taking a condescending attitude, as if they were giving alms. This is simply unreasonable.
For someone who has a very good self-image, if you refuse his cooperation, it is equivalent to offending him, so there is no need to be hypocritical here.
If I've offended you, so what?
"Ignorance is truly bliss! I've already shown enough sincerity! Yet you're so ungrateful! In that case, I won't waste any more words! But I'll soon make you understand just how important traffic is! If you regret it later and want to come to me for investment again, the conditions won't be as generous as they are now!"
Zheng Hongyi felt humiliated.
Seeing Chen Yan's extremely firm attitude and knowing that it was useless to say more, Zheng Hongyi could only say something harsh, then turned around and left with his secretary in anger.
He didn't want to give up on the 'Boundless Dimension' platform so easily.
But the current situation is obvious. The two founders of the Boundless Dimension have not yet truly experienced the harsh beatings of society! So he has to think of some other ways to achieve his goal in a roundabout way!
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