Chapter 25: The Potential of Tianqi Technology

"I appreciate the kind intentions of President Chen and Penguin Group, but I have no intention of selling any shares of Tianqi Technology or Tiantian Assistant."

Su Xin said calmly.

"The reason I accepted the invitation to come here is mainly out of respect for President Chen having traveled such a long distance; it was truly difficult to refuse, so I wanted to clarify things with you in person."

"If this is the only matter President Chen has, I feel there may be no need for us to continue this conversation. Let us cooperate again if there is an opportunity in the future."

Chen Congnan was stunned where he stood.

As the president of the Business Development Department of Penguin Group, he had experienced hundreds of negotiations, including some with stubborn people who had foul tempers, but he had rarely encountered someone as impervious to reason as Su Xin.

The other party had shut down the conversation from the very beginning, and no matter how he tried to coerce or entice, they would not budge in the slightest, leaving his full repertoire of skills with nowhere to be applied.

After a moment of silence, Chen Congnan knew that with the other party's attitude, it would be useless to propose any further conditions, so he took out a business card, handed it over, and said politely:

"Mr. Su, even if a deal cannot be made, the friendship remains. This is my business card; please accept it. If there is anything you need in the future, please give me a call."

"Very well."

Su Xin took the business card, stood up, and greeted the group: "Everyone, I have other matters to attend to, so I will take my leave now."

Chen Congnan also stood up, and the others hurriedly followed suit to bid farewell to Su Xin.

Once the door closed, the group sat down one after another.

"President Chen, this kid is completely impervious to reason; he clearly hasn't experienced the harsh beatings of reality. Should we use some methods to make him suffer a bit?"

One of the slightly chubby young men suggested.

Chen Congnan pondered for a moment and shook his head:

"Now is not the time. He is currently in the spotlight; if we resort to underhanded tactics, it will be easy for people to guess that someone is targeting him. That would only stir up public sympathy, and not only would it fail to harm him, it might even help him win over the public."

"Furthermore, other companies will surely seek him out during this period. If they happen to find him in trouble, they might take the initiative to help him out and take the opportunity to befriend him. That would be equivalent to us pushing him into the hands of others."

"Let's wait until this wave of attention passes."

"In any case, since he won't agree to our investment, it is unlikely he will accept the conditions of other companies either."

On the other side, after leaving Hengxiang Restaurant, Su Xin returned to the hotel where he was staying, booked a high-speed train for that evening, and prepared to head to Tianjing City.

When he previously registered Tianqi Technology Co., Ltd., he had entrusted an agency in Tianjing to handle the registration, and at that time, he had also taken the opportunity to set up a company account. However, because he had never had the time to go to Tianjing in person, the company account had remained inactive.

Now that the company's first product had been launched, and it would begin charging fees after a month of user trials, he had to resolve the company account issue before then.

Besides that, the launch of the Tiantian Smart Phone Assistant also meant the company needed an official office space, as well as the rental of larger cloud servers. Furthermore, he had to recruit a large number of operations and maintenance personnel, as well as talent in administration, human resources, finance, and other areas.

Once the company had so many people, he would need a suitable person to help him manage it; otherwise, he had no spare time to waste on the daily operations of the company.

Thus, taking advantage of the few hours before his departure, Su Xin posted several high-salary executive recruitment advertisements on major online recruitment platforms.

On Douyin Short Video.

A tech blogger with three million followers, whose ID was 'Big Summer', was livestreaming a review of the highly popular Everyday Smart Phone Assistant.

From the step of downloading it from the app store, to opening the Everyday Assistant, and then to the various operations attempted afterward, Big Summer exclaimed repeatedly.

"I dare say, the Tiantian Assistant is the most powerful smart phone assistant to date, and perhaps even the most powerful Artificial Intelligence product on the market right now!"

"Without a doubt!"

"To be honest, if there weren't a complete lack of products on the market comparable to the Tiantian Assistant, I would also think that Su Xin had obtained such software in advance by cheating."

"I truly cannot imagine that such an epoch-making piece of software was independently developed by an eighteen-year-old youth."

"Moreover, I have watched the livestream replay; Su Xin said he only studied programming for a little over a month and spent only about a month developing the Tiantian Assistant."

"That is to say, from learning programming to starting the development of the Tiantian Assistant, he only spent at most half a month? If such an absurd claim were made by anyone else, I would dare to assert that the person is bragging!"

"However, considering that Su Xin was able to independently develop the Tiantian Assistant at the age of eighteen, I really dare not judge this news lightly."

"After all, as everyone knows, there are always god-like geniuses in this world who always do things that exceed the limits of our imagination."

"For example, Tesla who invented alternating current, Newton who discovered gravity, Einstein who founded relativity, and so on—each of them was a god-like genius, an existence like a god in the eyes of us ordinary people."

"Su Xin is also such a god-level genius!"

"And the Tiantian Smart Phone Assistant will surely become popular all over the country! It will become a heavyweight product in the field of Artificial Intelligence!"

Due to the popularity of the Tiantian Smart Phone Assistant, many tech content creators, as well as those in other fields, took the initiative to jump on the bandwagon, praising the Tiantian Smart Phone Assistant to the skies, which further boosted its popularity.

Of course, this also included the organizers and sponsors behind the Qianlong Cup—namely the five top universities and Longwei Group—who used the popularity of the Tiantian Assistant and Su Xin to wildly hype the value and significance of the Qianlong Cup competition.

After all, Su Xin had become an overnight sensation through the Qianlong Cup, and the Tiantian Assistant had also been unveiled at the Qianlong Cup finals; the popularity of Su Xin and the Tiantian Assistant indirectly represented the popularity of the Qianlong Cup.

The various parties naturally spared no effort in their promotion.

For a time, hot searches on the internet were constant.

Numerous netizens, after watching the detailed reviews of the Tiantian Assistant, were amazed by it.

Especially those netizens who had not yet downloaded the Tiantian Assistant; after seeing the review process, they kept exclaiming "Holy crap," and then hurriedly went to the app store to download and try it out.

Under this trend, following the download volume breaking twenty million in half a day, the download volume of the Tiantian Assistant, after a brief lull of only one or two hours, resumed its trend of rapid growth.

At the same time.

The news of Tianqi Technology recruiting executives also spread rapidly in the tech circle.

Unlike ordinary people who only focused on the Tiantian Assistant, the big shots of those tech companies kept their eyes more on Su Xin, who was behind the Tiantian Assistant, and on Tianqi Technology.

Among them, the senior management of those top tech companies flew to Jianghai to attempt an acquisition, while other executives thought about finding opportunities to jump ship to this emerging tech company with infinite prospects.

Because it was easy for everyone to find out that in Tianqi Technology, a company that had been established for less than half a month, there were no employees at all other than Su Xin, the sole shareholder; it was practically a shell company.

Since it was still a shell, with the launch of the Tiantian Smart Phone Assistant, Tianqi Technology would surely be recruiting a large number of people before long.

Therefore, when they noticed that Tianqi Technology had indeed begun recruiting executives, many people submitted their resumes at the first opportunity.

Even executives from some major internet firms were quite tempted by this position.

Everyone could see the potential of Tianqi Technology; as long as they could join at the start of Tianqi Technology, once it grew into a behemoth in the field of Artificial Intelligence, everyone, as the founding contributors of Tianqi Technology, would surely gain both fame and fortune.