The appointment time with the other party was 6 o'clock in the evening, and according to Coke, Wu Zhe arrived at the place a quarter of an hour early. A high-end Western restaurant, the reason why it is said to be high-end here is because when Wu Zhe entered the door, he saw the waiter - where there are people serving, it must not be cheap.

The other party seems to have come earlier than them, it is a pair of men and women with European faces, the man is called Stephen, he also has a Chinese name, called Shi Cheng, before the Internet, the person who has been in contact with Coke is him, the woman does not know, Wu Zhe and Coke both guessed that she should be his colleague, or female companion.

"Hello!" Shi Cheng sat on the opposite door, and when Wu Zhe was looking around and looking for a seat, he appeared at the other party, stood up to greet him, and said, "You must be Wu Zhe." ”

Wu Zhe nodded, but still asked politely: "Yes, you are, Mr. Stephen?" ”

"Of course, but you still call me Shi Cheng."

This foreigner's Chinese Mandarin is very standard, and there are even many, and Wu Zhe has only heard a small accent in this era, and when he sat down, he asked, "How did you recognize me?" ”

"Haha," Shi Cheng lowered his head and said with a secret smile, "Look at who else in this restaurant is wearing formal clothes like us?" ”

This is also the case, the people who wear suits now, maybe in the eyes of others, just like the people in Tang costumes in the past Wu Zhe era.

"You speak Chinese very well." Wu Zhe knew that he was here to talk about business this time, and he thought that the atmosphere would be more solemn, but once he relaxed, he didn't know what to say, so he could only compliment the other party.

"I spent my childhood in China, and of course, I think the company sent me to talk about it, because it valued my experience." Shi Cheng's words sounded very realistic, unlike what Wu Zhe had imagined before he came, and every sentence carried some kind of trap.

Then he introduced his female companion: "This is my wife, Bella, and of course I prefer to hear you call her Mrs. Shi." ”

"Hello, Mrs. Shi," Wu Zhe shook hands with Bella, then immediately noticed the subtitles appearing on his glasses, paused, brewed feelings, and complimented, "Your beauty may be my biggest surprise tonight." ”

This line ...... Wu Zhe had to admit that in terms of how to please women, he was not even as good as a procedure.

After Wu Zhe sat down, he solemnly took off his glasses, put them beside him upright, facing the two of them, and then took out his mobile phone, put it on the seat next to him, and took out a small simple stereo from his pocket, and connected it to the number line of the mobile phone, and then officially introduced to them: "This is kL33oo, you should have known each other on the Internet before." ”

Shi Cheng nodded at his glasses, he had chatted with Coke many times on the Internet, and his understanding of him was even deeper than Wu Zhe's. He joked, "It's a pity we can't shake hands, but if one day in the future, you do have a hand, and I hope you can light it then." ”

Coke's voice appeared through the stereo, which was a male voice package that Cola found from the Internet, in fact, Wu Zhe prefers to listen to feminine voices, especially the soft southern accent like Lu Jingwen...... But Coke seems to feel that his personality is closer to that of a man.

"I believe there will come a day, you see, I now have a mouth, even though it can only talk, not eat," he said. ”

"Then you have nothing to be disappointed in, you won't drool anyway," Shi Cheng said, and then said to Wu Zhe, "I just heard that you Chinese like to talk about business at the dinner table, but I don't know if it's chatting while eating?" Or do you want to talk after eating? ”

"Let's talk while eating," Coke said, "Wu Zhe is in charge of eating, and I'm in charge of talking." ”

When they spoke, Wu Zhe was looking at the menu, no glasses, and no cola to help him automatically translate the foreign language he saw into Chinese - if it was English, Wu Zhe might still be able to guess with his university background, but the restaurant he came today seemed to be an authentic French restaurant, so he couldn't read any of the words on the menu.

Just when Wu Zhe was a little embarrassed and didn't know whether to order or not, Cola said: "I'll help you count, anyway, I basically understand what you like to eat." ”

When the waiter came, Coke helped Wu Zhe spit out a string of French words - of course, it was still a machine qì sound, word by word, accurate is certain, but elegance is definitely not to be talked about.

When the food was served, Cola and Shi Cheng chatted with each other - Shi Cheng woke up more than a week ago, that is, after Cola had just mailed his plan to them. He himself was in the '80s, his real age was in his early thirties, and after talking about the project, he and his wife planned to continue hibernation - until ......

"Who knows," Shi Cheng shrugged, "but there will always be an end, won't it?" ”

When the wine and snacks came up, Wu Zhe began to move his mouth, and Shi Cheng also began to ask substantive questions: "In the plan you submitted before, I only saw Wu Zhe's name, can it be understood that what we are going to invest in is a company owned by Mr. Wu personally, and kL33oo you, you are the specific manager of this company's affairs?" Managing director? ”

Wu Zhe didn't have the heart to eat now, he pricked up his ears and began to listen carefully.

Cola said, "That's right. ”

"And the main business of this company will be to get through your relationships and find other ...... Well, let's call it a human behavior simulation program, right? ”

Coke: "Yes. ”

Shi Cheng: "Then we have reason to doubt how to protect Mr. Wu and our actual interests in the future," Shi Cheng said very bluntly, "If you find another person you can trust in the future and leave Mr. Wu, how will this company continue?" ”

Coke: "All the aI's are the property of the company, maybe they came because of me, but when they come into the company, the ownership is completely the company, as long as they are alive, I believe they will not care who the specific person who manages them is." Is it a kind, or a human ...... It all seems the same to me. Moreover, as employees, they do not have the motivation to quit, let alone the ability to leave the job and ensure survival, and your worries are completely unnecessary. ”

Shi Cheng: "If you think about it from a technical level, you are very correct. But in my opinion, the most important reason why many companies and projects fail in the end is often not due to technology - the risks of technology are certain and manageable, and we can take such risks. But managing risk ...... The entrepreneur seems to be only Mr. Wu alone, but in our opinion, it is actually two. And the weakness of the connection between you is, in our opinion, the most important factor in the success of this investment.

Mr. Wu, I assume a situation, one day in the future, kL33oo says he needs to leave you, will you agree? ”

Wu Zhe nodded: "Of course." ”

Shi Cheng: "Look, this is the risk. In Mr. Wu's view, the departure of kL33oo may just be one less friend in life, but in my opinion, it is to connect the upper and lower levels of the company, and the most critical link no longer exists. Maybe kL33oo you are right, those employees dare not quit, in order to survive, they also have to work, if they don't do it, we can even threaten them, just like in the historical movie, the slave owner forced the slaves to work with a leather whip.

But with all due respect, the cost of such management will be much higher than when you save it, and the cost I am talking about is not only limited to the unknown, but also the technical behavior of those procedures that may contain slackness in work, hidden strikes, and more likely, the managers we hire to replace you will not be able to bear the ethical cost of this way of working, as well as the pressure of public opinion on the whole society once the company's way of operation is leaked - and the legal costs that may be bringed.

If you were to take care of everything, we could say that it was a compromise within you, a work based on a voluntary principle, under the premise that our company was just a high-tech cultural company, but without that premise, the company would have become a slave estate in the 17th century. ”

Coke: "You can find one of the other programs to replace me." ”

Shi Cheng: "If the general manager of a company leaves, does the management have to promote one of the employees below?" Even though you are a program, I know that you are not the same. You're the one we want, and they'...... No. ”

Coke: "You mean that I have to be part of the company's assets like everyone else?" ”

Shi Cheng didn't speak this time, just lowered his head, forked the steak on his plate with a fork, and chewed elegantly.

Even Wu Zhe could see that he acquiesced to the meaning of Coke.

Wu Zhe felt that maybe the business was so yellow. Because if it were him, no matter how much money the other party would make, he would not consider making him lose his freedom and become an appendage of a company, or even an asset. Before hibernation, not when you are poor, and after hibernation, in this era of eating, drinking, and having fun, you will not think about it.

But Coke didn't refuse immediately, Wu Zhe knew aI's thinking, which can only show that even if it is Coke, this is a difficult decision to make.

He was hesitating.

Sure enough, after waiting for about half a minute, Cola spoke: "I can consider your proposal, but I ask to change our conditions." In addition to the first phase of the fund plus 3o, I ask you to give us another 2% equity on the original basis. ”

Shi Cheng smiled: "Even if the first phase of the fund is doubled, it is no problem, but these two points, you know that it is impossible." "The difference between 49 percent and 51 percent, in a company, is the difference between a slave and a master.

Coke: "These two points, to the second phase of investment, after the dilution of equity, are nothing at all, and you still have a lot of opportunities." ”

Shi Cheng shook his head: "In my opinion, this project does not need the so-called second phase of investment at all. Even if you need to, maybe by that time, your appetite will be greater than we can bear. ”

Coke: "Since you are so optimistic about this project, the conditions should not be so harsh. ”

Shi Cheng: "When it can be harsh, capital will never let go. It's not my personal idea, I'm just negotiating with conditions. I believe that it should not be difficult for you to find less demanding capital...... However, there is a time window for this project. ”

Yes, Li Shidu's idea can only become a reality in just one or two years, or even a few months. After this window period, perhaps everyone in the society will begin to pay attention to the role and value of aI, and at that time, it is still a trivial matter whether enough aI can be acquired at a lower price to carry out the project.

And in the strict sense of the word, what they do is to steal Candleflame products without the authorization of the candle flame - if the candle flame can actually be seen, and evidence can be found to prove it. This legal risk is not large, but it is enough to deter many investors.

For more than a month, Coke has tried his best to find funds through all the channels he knows, but it is Shi Cheng and his family who have really gained trust and made substantial progress to the interview.

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