Chapter 146 Shared Academics

He Desheng was clearly stunned to hear these words.

"Huh? Sharing again?"

He Desheng was a little dizzy.

Zhang Wang had previously proposed a "shared phone booth" design, which He Desheng thought was outlandish enough, but at least that thing had a physical form.

Moreover, after observing it for a while, He Desheng found that the unreliability was just a facade; in reality, this phone booth had potential.

But this time, sharing academic aces?

How do you share an academic ace?

Buying and selling people is illegal!

Pei Qian smiled, having anticipated He Desheng's reaction.

To find something for He Desheng and the others at Dream Chasing Ventures to do, President Pei couldn't wait for the next project.

These were all the project proposals, and he had already reviewed them once last time. Besides the "shared phone booth," Pei Qian hadn't been interested in any of the other projects.

They were all too reliable!

So, this time, Pei Qian was inspired and came up with a new idea.

Sharing is a great thing!

Pei Qian carefully recalled that most of these shared things were selling gimmicks, and very few of them were actually profitable. It was just a false trend.

Of course, having said that, Pei Qian didn't dare to do a shared bicycle project now.

After all, many projects, once linked to "sharing," seemed very reliable.

Standing at the forefront, he was afraid of being blown up by capital. The consequences would be unimaginable.

Therefore, Pei Qian, combining his own needs, came up with a very unreliable project: sharing academic aces!

To put it bluntly, it's just paying someone to tutor you.

Pei Qian had been suffering while studying, and he kept thinking about this. If he could hire someone to study for him, that would be great.

Of course, that's impossible. There's no shortcut to learning, and that's why knowledge is priceless and hasn't been monopolized by the rich.

But that doesn't mean the situation can't be improved at all.

Looking at He Desheng's bewildered expression, Pei Qian cleared his throat, "Sharing academic aces is actually sharing knowledge!"

"Our model is very simple: create an app to establish a platform for communication and exchange between academic aces and academic slackers!"

"In every city, there are many academic aces and even more academic slackers. The slackers hope to acquire knowledge and have someone tutor them, while many academic aces have a natural inclination to help others and explain problems. Of course, if there's a little bit of financial compensation along the way, that would be even better..."

Hearing this, He Desheng suddenly understood, "I understand, President Pei! You want to create a tutoring platform!"

"Great project!"

"The education industry can be said to be a sunrise industry. With the improvement of economic levels, parents are paying more and more attention to their children's education. From elementary school to high school, many parents are willing to find tutors for their children, but there is no fair and convenient platform. They can only rely on acquaintances' introductions."

"Our launch of this app will solve this pain point very well. I seem to see an educational software with a valuation of ten billion rising!"

Pei Qian: "?"

A tutoring platform?

No, no, that's not what I meant!

How can the same idea sound so reliable when you say it?

Pei Qian panicked a little and quickly corrected, "No, you misunderstood. To be precise, it's not a tutoring platform."

"Our core is sharing, understand sharing? The fees will definitely not be as high as those of a tutor. We want to do a semi-public welfare project."

"Moreover, the coverage of our project will be wider than that of tutoring..."

He Desheng thought for a moment and nodded, "I understand! It's not just a tutoring platform, but also an online question bank!"

"For some questions with clear answers, there's no need for the academic ace to come to the door at all. We just need to build a good question bank, so that users can search for the original question and get a detailed answer. This way, the coverage will be wider!"

Pei Qian: "..."

He seemed to understand why he succeeded in every project he did.

Today, He Desheng gave him a close-up performance of how a normal person performs self-deification.

Distorting President Pei's words to his face?

Pei Qian's face darkened, and he almost wanted to fire this dangerous guy on the spot.

But after thinking about it, he decided to calm down. After all, he had experienced this kind of thing too many times.

Self-deification in advance is better than self-deification afterward.

Pei Qian thought carefully and decided to change his wording.

Honestly, Pei Qian didn't think the shared phone booth or the shared academic ace had any chance of success.

Especially the shared academic ace. If this project could succeed, someone should have done it a long time ago.

In Pei Qian's memory, during the hottest period of the sharing economy, he had never heard of a similar app succeeding, which was enough to show that this model had natural flaws.

The biggest problem is that the market isn't that big, and the academic aces aren't that free.

Academic aces are so busy studying every day. It's already pretty good if they can find time to tutor. How could they possibly run to tutor strangers from afar just to earn a little money?

You know, tutoring fees are very high, and only a few wealthy families are willing to hire them.

Even if ordinary families want to tutor their children, they mostly enroll them in tutoring classes.

In short, in Pei Qian's view, this project has too many unsolvable flaws.

Thinking of this, Pei Qian lowered his voice and said to He Desheng, "To be honest, the probability of failure for this project is very, very high!"

"So, even if it fails, you don't have to have any psychological burden."

"Just consider it doing public welfare, understand?"

He Desheng was stunned. What did President Pei mean by this?

In He Desheng's impression, Pei Qian's investments could be summarized in four words: steady, accurate, ruthless, and evil!

President Pei was often able to see investment opportunities in some seemingly unreliable projects, and once he was interested, he would not hesitate to invest heavily.

Facts had also proved that the projects President Pei was interested in all made money!

But now, the project was only just starting, why was President Pei hinting in advance that the project had a high probability of failure?

Could it be that even President Pei didn't have high hopes for this project?

But, if President Pei didn't have high hopes for this project, why would he still invest in it?

Was he really doing it as a public welfare undertaking?

That couldn't be. If President Pei wanted to do public welfare, he could just donate to charity, right? Why bother going around in circles?

He Desheng was confused.

He felt that there must be a deeper meaning behind President Pei's abnormal behavior.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck his mind.

"President Pei seems to be hinting!"

"Hinting that this project has flaws and will definitely fail in the end."

"President Pei is far-sighted, and this judgment is most likely correct."

"In that case, what should I, as an investor, do?"

"...Find a way to cash out at a high point and leave the market!"

He Desheng instantly understood and nodded, "I understand, President Pei!"

He didn't say it explicitly, because these things couldn't be said explicitly.

Just like President Pei was only hinting at this time, it was impossible to really say it so bluntly.

Pei Qian tentatively asked with some suspicion, "Do you really understand?"

He Desheng smiled, "President Pei, don't worry. I'm not a three-year-old child. Such a simple sentence doesn't require any comprehension ability, right?"

Pei Qian deeply resonated with this sentence.

Yes, a three-year-old could understand what he said, so what comprehension ability was needed?

Then why did others always misunderstand?

Really!

Seeing He Desheng being so perceptive, Pei Qian felt a little relieved.

"In that case, don't follow Zhang Wang to work on the shared phone booth. Focus on the shared academic ace project."

"By the way, the name 'shared academic ace' is a bit inappropriate."

"I think 'Xueba Kuai Lai app' (Academic Ace Come Quickly App) is more suitable."

Pei Qian was very worried that the concept of "sharing" would be targeted by some investment institutions with ulterior motives and hyped up as a trend. That would be troublesome.

Changing the name to "Xueba Kuai Lai" had a hint of impropriety, so other investment institutions shouldn't come over and meddle, right?

...

Zhongdian Chinese Website.

After two days of arrangement, the list of the first batch of students in the study class had been finalized, and the preliminary preparations had been arranged.

Ma Yiqun asked the current editor-in-chief, Zhu Xing'an, to contact the middle and upper-level authors of the website, let them sign up voluntarily, and then the website screened them to finally produce this list.

Judging from the list, the authors in the first training class were generally young, all under 25 years old.

On the one hand, this was because older authors were often married and had families, with many things to take care of, and it was unlikely that they would come to Jingzhou alone. On the other hand, it was also because the website could pick more younger authors when selecting.

With a basic salary, five insurances and one fund, and the ability to meet other authors, it was still quite worth looking forward to for these authors.

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Thursday, January 13th.

Huan Yu Tian Jie Shopping Mall.

Zhang Wang panted and stuffed all the things he brought into the shared phone booth, then installed them one by one.

During the time that Ruan Guangjian was "painting the skin" for the phone booth, the other work was not delayed at all.

This was thanks to the help of He Desheng and others.

Although He Desheng and others soon had new tasks, fortunately, the work on the phone booth was almost finished.

Now, most of the things in the phone booth were complete, including coffee and beverage machines, karaoke machines, capsule toy machines, weight scales, AEDs, and so on.

All of these things were fixed in the phone booth and could not be moved.

This was a large shopping mall, and whether it was the staff of the cinema or the staff of the beverage store, they could see the situation of the phone booth at any time. Zhang Wang had greeted the staff of the shopping mall, and these people could help take care of it.

Moreover, there were surveillance cameras at the entrance of the phone booth and the cinema. If someone deliberately vandalized it, they would be caught in minutes.

These devices had basically undergone simple modifications.

Taking the beverage machine as an example, Zhang Wang purchased a commercial multi-functional beverage machine that supported scanning codes and coin insertion. The machine also had an automatic cup dispensing function and could be cleaned automatically. If there were no paper cups or water, the machine would prompt.

Zhang Wang greeted the staff of the shopping mall and arranged for them to regularly replace paper cups, pure water buckets, clean the machine, and clean up, etc. This whole process didn't take too long.

After the customer scanned the code to enter, the karaoke machine could be used at will, but the beverage machine could only dispense two cups, after which they had to scan the code or insert coins.

The capsule toy machine was the same. If you wanted to twist a toy, you had to pay extra.

In addition, there was a signature stamp with the theme of Justice Guardian Modiste, placed on the right-hand side, just below the retro phone.

After finishing everything, Zhang Wang nodded with satisfaction.

Hmph, this is the complete form of the shared phone booth!

The entire phone booth was filled to the brim. From top to bottom, there was a phone, a small scrolling display screen, a beverage machine, a karaoke machine, a capsule toy machine, a three-port charger, wireless wifi, a karaoke machine, a folding seat, an AED, a weight scale, a blood pressure monitor...

In short, the layout was very reasonable, with basically no extra space wasted, but without making customers feel crowded.

Zhang Wang checked it again. All the equipment inside was properly arranged and could operate normally, then he closed the door.

On the front mural, Justice Guardian Modiste looked confident, as if hinting: this shared phone booth will definitely succeed!

Zhang Wang was very satisfied. The shared phone booth could finally be officially put into use for users to experience!