You call this entrepreneurship?

Chapter 298

Qin Shaoyan held his phone and pondered for a long time, then carefully sent a text message to Xiong Xiaoge.

"Boss Xiong, what have you been busy with lately?"

Five minutes passed and there was no response.

Qin Shaoyan thought about it and added another one.

"Boss Xiong, why didn't you reply to my message? Are you really angry?"

Still no response.

Qin Shaoyan was a little displeased. Hey, you are still excited, right?

I've been so humble, but you're still so arrogant.

Qin Shaoyan quickly typed out a message and sent it out again.

"Lao Xiong, I've run out of money on Qvod.com. Please transfer the money to me quickly."

Ten minutes later, the message still fell on deaf ears, and Xiong Xiaoge remained silent.

Qin Shaoyan thought about it carefully and finally sent a message.

"Xiong Xiaoge, selling your AI stocks will be the most regrettable decision in your life, just like when you sold your Penguin stocks."

"Jingle Bell……"

As soon as Qin Shaoyan put down his phone, a shrill ringtone rang.

I picked it up and saw that it was Xiong Xiaoge.

"Hey, Mr. Xiong."

"Qin Shaoyan!" Xiong Xiaoge's voice came from the receiver, "Are you interested?"

"I've never seen a liar as arrogant as you."

"..." Qin Shaoyan immediately retorted, "Old Bear, we may be familiar with each other, but if you slander me, I will still turn against you."

"I slandered you?" Xiong Xiaoge laughed angrily, "Qin Shaoyan, do I need to slander you for something you did yourself?"

"How am I a liar?" Qin Shaoyan said angrily, "Have I ever cheated you of your money? Have I ever made you lose money on your investment?"

Xiong Xiaoge snorted coldly, "Let's not talk about anything else, just talk about the artificial intelligence project. What exactly is that? Do I need to explain it to you?"

"Come on, come on, just tell me clearly now." Qin Shaoyan said firmly, "I want to hear what you think about artificial intelligence, Mr. Xiong."

"Xing Wenqiang, who is in charge of the artificial intelligence project, is a graduate student in computer application. His supervisor is a famous artificial intelligence research expert in my country. Xing Wenqiang has been deeply engaged in artificial intelligence neural networks for several years."

"Facebook's technical team highly praised our AI image recognition system and believed that it has broad application prospects. They invested real money in it."

"So none of these technical people can see that artificial intelligence is a scam. Only you, Xiong Xiaoge, understand it, right?"

Xiong Xiaoge sneered, "You, Qin Shaoyan, are very eloquent. I can't beat you in an argument."

"You dare not admit it, right? You know clearly whether there are problems with the artificial intelligence project. You can fool others but can you fool yourself?"

Qin Shaoyan also laughed, "Boss Xiong, let's take a step back and say that even if there is a problem with my artificial intelligence project, I have a question for you."

"You knew there were problems with the project, so how could you have the nerve to sell your shares to SoftBank and make a profit of $1.5 million?"

"You have gone from being a victim to being a perpetrator. If there are problems with the project, you will sell it to someone else, which means you are also responsible."

Xiong Xiaoge was silent for a moment, then slowly said: "I didn't sell the shares."

Qin Shaoyan raised his voice and scolded: "You dare not admit it, right? You know clearly whether you sold it or not. You can deceive others, but can you deceive yourself?"

Xiong Xiaoge was confused.

This isn't right, how come it's my fault again?
"Qin Shaoyan!" Xiong Xiaoge retorted angrily, "Stop talking nonsense. It was obviously you who committed the fraud, and you are here to put the blame on me."

"Old Bear!" Qin Shaoyan also shouted, "You said I was cheating, show me the evidence!"

"Is my artificial intelligence project fake? You saw it with your own eyes, and you were the one who invested in it."

"Not long after you bought it, you turned around and sold it to SoftBank, making $1.5 million."

"Why didn't you think I was a liar when you were making money? You called me a liar after the sale. It's nothing more than you were jealous of the money I made."

Killing people will kill your heart, killing people will kill your heart!

Xiong Xiaoge was extremely angry, "How dare you call that crap of yours artificial intelligence!"

"I've asked an expert on this, and there's something wrong with your thing."

"Don't vote if you have any questions." Qin Shaoyan retorted, "Which expert said that this is not artificial intelligence?"

“Is there a unified standard definition of artificial intelligence now?”

“What is artificial intelligence?”

“Use computers to simulate certain human thought processes and intelligent behaviors, such as learning, reasoning, and thinking.”

"My image recognition system has all of these. It can learn and recognize autonomously, it can reason, and it can improve recognition accuracy through manual training. This is artificial intelligence."

"And my system has already begun to be used commercially. In the second half of this year, this image recognition system will be connected to the campus network's audit system."

“It helps the campus network identify illegal images and assists manual auditors in screening.”

"Huh?" Xiong Xiaoge was stunned for a moment, "You have already entered the application stage?"

"It's just a test application. The system needs to continuously learn, iterate and evolve, which requires a large amount of data and image training." Qin Shaoyan replied, "The best development environment is to upgrade while applying."

"This system will not only be used by our campus, but also by Facebook. We have signed a commercial contract, and it will be connected to Facebook's backend review system in three years."

Xiong Xiaoge frowned, "Why didn't you tell me?"

"You're not a shareholder, so there's no need for me to report everything to you." Qin Shaoyan retorted harshly.

Xiong Xiaoge felt a little regretful. He had indeed sold the shares too early.

Although he already felt that there was something wrong with the project at the time and although he was not very interested in the project, he still invested some money.

Seeing that Qin Shaoyan was about to use the same old trick again and drag Facebook in to inflate the valuation, he concluded that Qin Shaoyan was cheating and immediately sold all his shares.

But unexpectedly, Qin Shaoyan was not bluffing this time, he really brought Facebook into the cooperation.

However, Xiong Xiaoge is also a big shot in the venture capital industry. He has seen all kinds of storms. He sold Penguin stocks as soon as he said he would.

He is not yet entangled in this small project of artificial intelligence.

Xiong Xiaoge was angry because Qin Shaoyan, the entrepreneur, did not focus on his business, but did everything he could to inflate the valuation, and even dragged him into it.

That would have been fine, but the most important thing was that Qin Shaoyan had been hiding his actions from him and had not even informed him in advance, which put Xiong Xiaoge in a passive position.

Qin Shaoyan is a talent that he is very optimistic about. He is young but has a lot of ideas and means.

But seeing that he might be heading down the wrong path, Xiong Xiaoge couldn't hold himself back.

Wouldn't it be better to just run the company and go public to raise money? Why did they have to degenerate into defrauding investors?

Xiong Xiaoge sighed with regret. The temptations in this society are too great and the waters are too deep for young people to grasp.

"Mr. Qin, please stop." Xiong Xiaoge said slowly.

"Stop?!" Qin Shaoyan was stunned, then said angrily, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"Qvod.com is doing well, why should we stop it?"

Xiong Xiaoge was startled and shouted in shock: "What do you want to do with Qvod?"

Compared with the 2 million US dollars artificial intelligence project, the funds invested in Qvod.com are an order of magnitude higher, which is more than 20 million US dollars.

But there must not be any mistakes.

"Qvod.com is going to apply for the exclusive live broadcast rights for the 08 Olympic Games. This project may cost a lot of money, so I have to inform you in advance." Qin Shaoyan added. "You haven't sold your shares in Qvod.com, right?"

Xiong Xiaoge ignored Qin Shaoyan's sarcastic tone and asked directly, "Live broadcast of the Olympics?"

"Are you sure about this?"

"Just try your best." Qin Shaoyan said perfunctorily.

Several thoughts flashed through Xiong Xiaoge's mind. If this could really be done, it would be great news.

Qin Shaoyan has connections in the Olympic Committee, and they are very powerful.

Xiong Xiaoge saw this at the last Global International Marathon.

Since we have already cooperated once, it is only natural to continue and deepen the cooperation.

Qvod won the exclusive right to broadcast the 08 Olympic Games online, which can be said to be a dimensionality reduction attack on other competitors.

During the Olympics, other video sites can forget about getting much traffic.

Xiong Xiaoge quickly calmed down. No matter how good this matter was, it would still happen three years later.

The most important thing right now is to finalize the exclusive live broadcast rights.

Xiong Xiaoge continued to ask, "Are you sure about the technology?"

"Zhang Pingyi said that the technical problem is not serious, but the live broadcast picture will be very blurry." Qin Shaoyan told the truth.

Xiong Xiaoge breathed a sigh of relief. "It's okay. The network infrastructure will be improved in three years, and this problem may be solved by then."

"It doesn't matter if it's blurry, as long as users can watch it."

"Yeah, that's what I thought too." Qin Shaoyan agreed calmly.

In fact, Qin Shaoyan himself knew clearly that even in 08, even if the Internet conditions improved, it was still not possible to watch live broadcasts.

But when you draw a pie in the sky, just make it big and round so that it looks particularly good to investors.

As for how to make the pie and the process behind it, investors don’t care.

It all depends on whether the cake tastes good in the end.

However, after three years, most of the domestic video website competitors will be dead. By then, Xiong Xiaoge probably won’t care whether this pie is delicious or not.

"We have to do this step by step." Qin Shaoyan said seriously, "Tomorrow I will have dinner with a leader of the Olympic Organizing Committee, and then we will start the public relations activities."

"Well, we have to entertain the leaders of the Olympic Committee well." Xiong Xiaoge said generously, "Don't be reluctant to spend money. You can spend this public relations fee as you like."

"Boss Xiong is very generous." Qin Shaoyan complimented him with a smile, "But we still need to make it clear about the PR fee in advance, so that you don't have to ask me for the bill later."

Xiong Xiaoge was stunned, then laughed, "You, you, I find that you... have a good grasp of some principled issues."

This is what Xiong Xiaoge admires most about Qin Shaoyan. He is principled, never squanders investors' money, and never does anything sneaky.

He has seen entrepreneurs who are more capable than Qin Shaoyan, but entrepreneurs who are more clean and principled than Qin Shaoyan are rare.

After getting investment, most entrepreneurs are confused when spending money and do not treat investors' money as money at all.

Some people even start enjoying themselves before they have achieved any results.

"There is one more important thing." Qin Shaoyan said seriously, "Please help Mr. Xiong."

"Tell me what it is. I'll try my best to satisfy you as long as it's not excessive." Xiong Xiaoge was in a better mood at this time. He thought that if Qin Shaoyan's request was not excessive, he would agree to it directly.

Qin Shaoyan asked: "Boss Xiong, do you have any reliable people of your own who are capable and principled?"

"Huh?" Xiong Xiaoge was stunned for a moment, very surprised, "Why are you asking this?"

"Our company is short of all kinds of talent right now. We can solve these problems ourselves." Qin Shaoyan sighed, "But there is a thorny problem that is difficult to solve."

"The campus network will begin a large-scale offline promotion in the second half of the year. You know that offline promotion is a lucrative and hard job, so it's inevitable that there will be some dishonest people."

“I originally wanted to set up an internal audit and compliance department, but there was no suitable person.”

"Besides, it's not likely that someone from within the company would be suitable for this department, so I'd like to ask Mr. Xiong to recommend someone."

Xiong Xiaoge hesitated for a moment. Qin Shaoyan said there was no problem with setting up an internal audit department, and he was surprised that Qin Shaoyan had such awareness.

But Qin Shaoyan asked him to recommend someone, which was a bit...

Previously, Qin Shaoyan asked Xiong Xiaoge to recommend a financial director, which made him laugh and cry.

Although Qin Shaoyan's gesture satisfied the investors, it was difficult to implement it.

How could Xiong Xiaoge have so many talents to assign to him? He himself doesn't even have enough.

"About this matter..." Xiong Xiaoge thought for a moment, "It's hard to find qualified talents in China at present. Supervisory positions are usually full-time investigators who have worked in the police, anti-corruption and other professions."

"At the same time, we also need experienced auditors who are old hands and are familiar with many unspoken rules."

"Well, I'll try to find it for you."

"Thank you, Mr. Xiong." Qin Shaoyan said with a smile, "We can find the members of the monitoring team ourselves, but Mr. Xiong will have to take care of the person in charge."

It stands to reason that the position of military supervisor should be held by the boss's closest confidant and loyalist, but Qin Shaoyan is now using this position as cannon fodder, so it is not easy to use his own people.

……

The next morning.

Liu Yuanrui and two other coal bosses walked excitedly into the alley and stopped outside a small door.

This is a very inconspicuous courtyard, with traces of time left on its blue-gray walls.

The small vermilion door has door gods pasted on it and couplets hung on both sides.

This is a private restaurant hidden in the alley.

As soon as they stepped into the yard, a waiter came up to greet them and led the three of them inside.

Go through the courtyard gate and enter the room.

"Mr. Qin." Liu Yuanrui was the first to greet.

At this time, Qin Shaoyan was sitting in the main seat, with two middle-aged men sitting next to him. The three of them were chatting very happily.

Liu Yuanrui took a glance and found that the two men looked and dressed like local bosses, and he felt a little surprised and wary.

Where did these two people come from?
"Brother Liu, please take a seat." Qin Shaoyan waved his hand. "Let me introduce you to the two bosses, Tian Qingmin and Wang Dalin."

"Don't look down on these two, but they are not ordinary people."

"They have been a clothing supplier for the International Olympic Committee and the domestic Olympic Organizing Committee, a designated supplier for Facebook in the United States, and a partner of this year's National Games."

Liu Yuanrui was very surprised. If you want to be a supplier, you must have connections. Without connections and background, you can't even get a share of the soup.

But these two people have connections that extend to the International Olympic Committee, so they are quite powerful.

"These three are bosses from Shanxi Province, and they are all in the coal mining business." Qin Shaoyan introduced the two parties to each other.

Tian Qingmin and Wang Dalin were also a little surprised. Although they were in Jiangnan, they had also heard of the coal boss's name.

Both parties were interested in making friends and were veterans in the business world, so they naturally became familiar with each other quickly and almost became sworn brothers on the spot.

Qin Shaoyan raised his wrist and looked at his watch. "It's almost time. The real master should be here soon."

Liu Yuanrui was a little surprised, "Boss Qin, who are you going to invite?"

"Well, no one." Qin Shaoyan said with a smile, "A leader of the Olympic Committee. We have worked together before."

"We invited him here today to catch up with the past and talk about the Olympics."

hiss~
Liu Yuanrui and others took a deep breath. Mr. Qin’s business has reached the level of the Olympics?
(End of this chapter)