Chapter 94: You Are Quite Good

Shen Ci's words directly turned the other three into emojis.

She still looked at Luo Tianrui, not urging, just waiting for him to speak.

Luo Tianrui subconsciously looked at each other with Ge Youcai, and then turned to look at Shen Ci. He seemed to have understood, but he didn't seem to have fully understood.

He hesitated, and confirmed tentatively: "You said, you want to invest money in our project?"

Shen Ci raised her eyebrows and nodded: "If you can convince me, I am willing to invest."

Getting a definite answer, Luo Tianrui couldn't help but ask again: "You, did your family get involved in the field of artificial intelligence?"

Shen Ci pouted and shook her head.

Luo Tianrui asked again: "Then your relatives have it? Or other reasons?"

Shen Ci looked at Luo Tianrui's cautious look and couldn't help laughing: "Neither, I find you quite interesting. You take your carefully prepared materials to find investment everywhere, and don't hesitate to mix in as a waiter to find opportunities. How come I, a potential investor, took the initiative to find you, but you are worried instead? Do I look like a liar?"

Luo Tianrui and Ge Youcai shook their heads, Ge Youcai grinned: "That's not what I meant, we are poor and white now, and the project is stuck because of lack of funds, there is nothing to be cheated."

"Tianrui is more careful, and I also feel that no one will invest money in us for no reason, which is a bit unreasonable."

"For no reason?" Shen Ci's star eyes smiled and shook her head: "I'm not for no reason either. If your program is really as good as you said, can't it be used to make a lot of money in the future?"

"I also have a purpose, and my purpose is the most simple and unadorned, that is to make money!"

Speaking of this, the landlady started to serve dishes. Shen Ci said: "Let's eat first, you organize your language in your heart, think about how to convince me to pay money later."

Luo Tianrui and Ge Youcai nodded woodenly, obviously still a bit unresponsive.

With a few more dishes, the appetite of the two boys was obviously much better, mainly because they hadn't been extravagant in eating for a long time.

Seeing them eating and drinking, Shen Ci was quite emotional and asked casually: "How many people are in your team? Are they all classmates in the same department?"

Ge Youcai swallowed the food in his mouth and shook his head: "Not all, there are eight of us in total, six are from the Computer Department, and two are junior students from the Mathematics Department. We are responsible for program programming and development, and some data calculations are completed by the two juniors."

Shen Ci nodded when she heard this, and asked again: "Is it very expensive to develop this program? If you can really get investment, how much budget do you plan to ask for?"

The two looked at each other, Luo Tianrui took the lead: "It's impossible to estimate the total budget, because a set of programs needs countless optimizations from the beginning to being able to run online. Every time it needs money. So we can only seek the first investment first, and then ask for subsequent investment to gradually improve it to the best after the program is fully developed."

Ge Youcai followed up: "There are also 'servers', 'tech stacks', 'multi-functional technical requirements', and 'third-party data fusion', etc., all of which need money. Many people may think that developing a program is just a group of code farmers knocking on code, but it is not, especially since the field we are involved in is artificial intelligence. It is more complex, has a longer cycle, and has a lower fault tolerance, so Tianrui felt that you wouldn't understand just now. In fact, we are more worried that investors don't understand where the money is spent."

"But your current results are still a semi-finished product. Do you have confidence that you can do as well as you said?" Shen Ci looked at the two and asked.

"Optimistically, sixty or seventy percent confidence."

Shen Ci was a bit surprised, because she knew that this team was successful in the end, but she didn't expect that Luo Tianrui's confidence in the process of development was just passing, and it was still under the premise of maintaining optimism.

And Luo Tianrui's next sentence was beyond her expectation. I saw Luo Tianrui suddenly put down his bowl and chopsticks, looking at Shen Ci with an extremely serious expression: "I don't suggest you invest in our project."

Not only did Shen Ci not expect him to say this suddenly, but even Ge Youcai was stunned.

Luo Tianrui said: "Investment is risky. If we don't make it, your money will be lost, and you won't even hear a sound."

Hearing him say this, Ge Youcai also lowered his head silently.

Shen Ci was surprised, but more confused. She asked puzzledly: "Since there are so many uncertain factors, and you don't have full confidence, why do you seek investment from major groups?"

Luo Tianrui explained: "Because the R&D teams of these companies involved in artificial intelligence are actually on the road of trial and error every day. Large groups have trial and error costs. If this cost is used on us, we might create miracles. Even if there is no miracle, for them, it is just a normal trial and error cost."

Shen Ci understood. Simply put, Luo Tianrui wanted to express that large groups can afford to play, and they don't want to let themselves take risks with this team. Once it fails, she will lose everything.

"You are quite good!"

Shen Ci joked and laughed. She seemed to have been out of the matter, but in fact, she had grasped the point in the conversation between each other imperceptibly.

I saw her calm her expression, looked at Luo Tianrui and said: "According to what you said, the risk of the whole thing is actually borne by the investor. Success is the best win-win for everyone, failure is money lost, right?"

This sounds a bit unpleasant, but it is indeed what it means. Luo Tianrui nodded awkwardly.

Shen Ci nodded gently: "So investment is risky, and the risk is on the investor. I really don't understand the professional things you said, and I don't need to understand. Because I am an investor, investors only value the rate of return. Since this matter is high-risk, what I want is high return."

Speaking of this, her tone paused, thought about it and said straight to the point: "Three-seven split, I want seven!"

Luo Tianrui and the two were shocked when they heard this, and said in unison: "You really want to invest?"

They didn't even say how much money they wanted.

Shen Ci nodded: "Bet, if I win, I should be able to earn a lot, right?"

After all, artificial intelligence is already the general trend, almost covering people's daily lives.

Luo Tianrui took a deep breath. Shen Ci's courage was completely beyond his expectation. He thought about it and said: "We need two hundred in the early stage, you..."

"No problem," Shen Ci said lightly: "Since I intend to invest, you don't need to worry about money anymore. As long as you devote yourself to R&D and try your best to do it best, it is the greatest return to me, the investor."

Shen Ci's words reached this point, and Luo Tianrui didn't want to be hypocritical anymore. His heart was surging and agitated at this time, and his lips trembled slightly: "Two-eight, we two!"

This is his sincerity, and it is also his way of thanking Shen Ci! ===== CHAPTER 95 =====