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Chapter 1584 Second Generation Entrepreneurship
"What? You're going to start a business too?"

Gu Li and the others looked at Gu Yuan, who seemed rather smug, with surprise.

"What's with all those expressions? And what do you mean I want to start a business too? I know the guy surnamed Wang is doing well, but that doesn't mean he's doing it too, does it?"

Jianxi asked curiously, "So what are you going to do?"

Gu Yuan chuckled: "The Internet! My mom said to just follow that guy surnamed Wang's lead, I'll do whatever he does. I don't believe that if he can do it, I can't."

Gu Li glanced at Nan Xiang sitting to the side and said, "Then I advise you to give up on that idea."

"Gu Li, what do you mean? Even you don't think highly of me?" Gu Yuan looked over with dissatisfaction.

"It's not that I don't believe in you, it's just that you really can't do it."

Gu Li opened her laptop and her browser. The tabs that were still open contained Wang Yan's accounts on various forums.

"Look at him, how he does marketing and promotion. Not to mention the sheer volume of his opinions he posts, you can't even match the speed at which he posts. In just three months, he gained over three million followers across the internet. With his current fame, he could easily earn millions a year just by running some ads and saying which company's products are good."

With that kind of fame, he doesn't need to spend hundreds of thousands or millions on advertising; people will naturally be curious about his selection process. As long as these people register, they can provide him with data, and he can get funding from venture capitalists.

Gu Li frankly pointed out one of the reasons for Wang Yan's success: his ability to market himself. In just three months, he became a new generation of internet celebrity. His powerful output capabilities garnered him a large following. This is how Zhenxuan Life, which is about to surpass one million users, achieved this.

Gu Yuan glanced at it twice, then pushed the computer aside: "It's just nonsense. I really don't know how those idiots believe what he says. Besides, I know the principle of playing to your strengths and avoiding your weaknesses. I spent most of yesterday looking at his website, and in the end, he's still just delivering food."

He just doesn't have the capability right now, so he's connecting with other food delivery companies to compare prices and transfer orders. "If that's the case, why don't I just start doing food delivery myself?"

Looking at Gu Yuan's smug expression, Gu Li was speechless: "Do you know that in order to compete for users, various food delivery companies offer huge subsidies to customers and delivery drivers? They lose money on every order they complete, spending hundreds of millions of yuan at a time. You think you can get involved with just two million? What are you dreaming of?"

"What, do you think I'm so worthless?" Gu Yuan said irritably, waving his hand dismissively. "Just you wait and see, I don't believe I can't get things done."

After saying that, he ignored Gu Li and the others, got up and left, decisively preparing to start his own business...

Gu Li sighed and rubbed her forehead, "She's hopeless."

Lin Xiao said, "Gu Li, I think you should trust Gu Yuan."

“I believe him, I really believe him. He’ll definitely go bankrupt!” Gu Li shook her head repeatedly. “Do you really think he can make money? Does he look like he has the brains for it?”

Nan Xiang said, "Gu Li, don't say that. Gu Yuan is still ambitious. He did this to make you happy."

“He’s making me really unhappy right now!” Gu Li glanced at her. “Oh well, whatever, I can’t reason with him anyway. Besides, his family isn’t short of money. Once he loses all two million, he’ll behave himself.”

Jian Xi coughed and said, "Gu Li, don't discourage Gu Yuan too much. He also wants to do his best."

"The difference between wanting to do your best and being able to do your best is like heaven and earth. I really don't understand why he had to be so stubborn and compete with that mentally ill person."

Gu Li said irritably, "Let me ask you, if you encountered a mentally ill person baring their teeth and claws, would you go up and fight them? Shouldn't you stay far away from them?"

Tang Wanru laughed and said, "Anyway, Gu Yuan is willing to do it, and his family doesn't lack those few million, so let him do it. But you have to play the villain and say such nasty things to Gu Yuan. No wonder Gu Yuan is heartbroken."

Nan Xiang nodded in agreement: "Wanru is right. The more you talk about Gu Yuan like that, the more he will try to achieve results to prove himself to you."

"Alright, alright, let's ignore him. He'll have his day. We're just killing time anyway, let's go shopping?" Gu Li suggested.

"Forget it, finals are coming up soon, I should just focus on studying," Lin Xiao politely declined.

Nan Xiang also shook her head: "I have class this afternoon."

Before Tang Wanru could say anything, Gu Li waved her hand and said, "How boring. You can fend for yourselves. I'm going to enjoy life."

"Honestly, they left without even waiting for me to say anything. How annoying." Tang Wanru stood up, grumbling. "Fine, I'll just go to the gym and find some handsome guys to play basketball with."

And so everyone dispersed...

A few days later, on the second floor of the startup center building.

"Come on, everyone be careful, don't bump into anything, that would be bad."

Looking at the "Selected Lifestyle" sign, Gu Yuan shouted as he directed the workers to get to work and move things.

"Gu Li, what do you think of this spot? I specifically chose this location to show certain people what real entrepreneurship and a real internet company really are. Look at their crappy computers; they can't even run games properly, let alone develop websites. Programmers without good computers are like soldiers going into battle without good weapons—how can they possibly win?"

Gu Li knew, of course, that Gu Yuan was deliberately causing trouble, but she still rolled her eyes and went along with it.

"You're right. Not only is a good computer important, but a generous salary and benefits are even more important. If you can't even afford to eat or live a good life, what right do you have to talk about ideals?"

Tang Wanru spoke loudly to a boy who was looking over through the open door of the selection process: "That's right, hey buddy, why don't you come work here? They'll pay you, unlike Wang Yan, who has to work for free."

……

"Seriously, bro? They've already got them at our doorstep, are you going to cower like a coward?" Lin Quan slammed a stack of documents heavily on the table.

“The approach is consistent. I’ll finish criticizing this person first before criticizing them. Why are you in such a hurry?” Wang Yan shook his head with a smile. “On the contrary, if you jump out every time someone says something, that’s a bad approach. Wouldn’t that make you seem impatient, as if what they say is always right?”

As he spoke, Wang Yan typed out the last line of text in a flurry, then clicked send with the mouse.

He lit a cigarette, swayed as he walked out, and leaned against the wall: "Oh my, it seems like we're destined to meet again. Gu Li, Lin Xiao, Nan Xiang, are you missing me?"

Upon hearing this, while the others remained silent, Lin Quan, who had come out with Wang Yan, rolled her eyes first.

"What are you saying?" Jian Xi, whose arm was being held by Lin Xiao, spoke first. "How can you be so indecent? Besides, this is a public place where smoking is prohibited. Your classmates who started this business with you don't like the smell of smoke either, do they?"

"Right now, almost everyone here is smoking. Did you see that over there? That's the smoking room. I was about five meters away. It was really rude of me, so what?"

Wang Yan, with a smug, uncouth look on his face, chuckled and said, "I guess you must be Jian Xi."

"what happened?"

"Not good at all." Wang Yan shook his head. "Lin Xiao, you need to think more about what you're after. Gu Li, as Lin Xiao's best friend, why don't you try to persuade her? Oh, right, I forgot, you're not so great either. This idiot is Gu Yuan, right? Tell me, I haven't even met you yet, and you're already being sent to jail for three months. Do you think that's right?" "Wang Yan!" Gu Li shouted unhappily.

Gu Yuan pulled Gu Li behind him, craning his neck to glare at Wang Yan: "It's no fun in trying to gain an advantage verbally. We have a long way to go. See? I've started an internet company too. I'm not afraid to tell you, it's based on your website, and I'm even poaching people from your team. What do you say? You don't like it? Keep it to yourself."

"You're such an idiot. You think you copy less of me? You think I'm the original? It's all borrowed. As for those classmates who poached me, it's a good thing they can make money here. But if you're thinking of getting them to sell out my company's technology, you're dreaming. You'll end up in jail."

"I can build this in three days of learning to code, what kind of technology does your crappy website have?" Gu Yuan scoffed.

Wang Yan was genuinely amused by Gu Yuan: "I've said everything I needed to say. If you insist on going in, I can't stop you. Everyone, just keep your work quiet and don't disturb us."

"This isn't your home, why are you bothering me?" Gu Yuan said confidently.

However, the next moment, he was burned on the face by a cigarette butt, and immediately became furious, and was about to go forward to beat Wang Yan.

Jian Xi and Gu Li pulled her back, saying, "Can you calm down? He's taking on more than a dozen people by himself. Do you think you can beat him?"

"So what? Go ahead and kill me if you dare."

"Come on, don't stop him. I'll go with him for fifteen days." Wang Yan said with a smile, which only fueled Gu Yuan's anger.

However, Gu Yuan eventually calmed down. His anger was only temporary; once he regained his senses, he remembered how he had gotten in earlier.

"I'm calling the police! Don't go! Let's see what the police have to say when they arrive."

"There's no way to criticize or educate them, so what else can I say? From now on, I'll smoke in front of your company and flick my cigarette butt whenever I see you. Go ahead and call the police every day."

As he spoke, Wang Yan took a step forward, startling Gu Yuan, who jumped back, causing the others to follow suit.

Wang Yan laughed heartily, stomped out the cigarette butt on the ground, and said to Jian Xi, "Now you know why you have to smoke, right?"

"Wang Yan, don't be so arrogant!" Lin Xiao shouted in a childish voice.

"What? You have a jade bottle? Want to take me in?" Wang Yan raised an eyebrow at her teasingly. "Call me anytime if you miss me. I'm waiting for you."

"Wang Yan!" This time, Jian Xi was furious again.

Wang Yan simply waved lazily, without even turning his head, and went back to the company with Lin Quan to continue working.

Lin Quan deliberately laughed loudly: "I've noticed that you seem to specialize in dealing with them."

"Their usual methods of bullying and ostracizing people don't work on me."

Watching the two figures disappear into the distance, everyone was seething with anger.

"He's a complete scoundrel! He's an absolute scoundrel!" Jian Xi's grammar was all jumbled up. "How could he be so shameless?"

“It’s only the two of you who have had contact with him. Look at the four of us, we’re used to it by now.” Gu Li shrugged. “I told you before, the best way to deal with a mentally ill person is to stay away from them. But you idiot, you still insisted on running into them.”

Tang Wanru said from the side, "But Gu Li, you also joined Gu Yuan in mocking him just now."

"I have a sharp tongue, I can't help it when I think about that mentally ill person."

Gu Li glared at Tang Wanru and let out a long sigh. "Alright, hurry up and tidy up your office. Being angry is not as satisfying as making achievements, crushing that lunatic under your feet, and even stomping on him a couple more times."

Gu Yuan held Gu Li's hand: "Don't worry, I will definitely succeed this time."

"Let's wait until it's done before we talk about it."

Gu Li slapped Gu Yuan's hand away, walked into the office in her high heels, and directed the movers to put things away properly, showing a strong sense of ownership.

Lin Xiao and Jian Xi eagerly joined in, but ended up making things worse.

Tang Wanru moved closer to Nan Xiang: "Is it pretty?"

Nan Xiang withdrew her gaze from Wang Yan's back, who was typing away at the computer screen during the audition: "Is anything interesting to watch?"

"Aren't you looking at Wang Yan? Your eyes are practically glued to him."

Tang Wanru smiled and said, "To be honest, Wang Yan is actually quite nice. It's just that Gu Li and the others might not be happy."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Nan Xiang pushed Tang Wanru around, "Go and help her quickly."

Gu Li and Lin Xiao both looked over...

And so, Gu Yuan set up a new company next door to Wang Yan, and the company was named Yuanli Technology.

Gu Yuan truly kept his word. On one hand, he found other computer science students to work part-time, and on the other hand, he spent money to poach Wang Yan's classmates.

Unfortunately, Gu Yuan didn't manage to recruit any of them. This was something Gu Yuan couldn't understand—why were those people willing to work for Wang Yan for free rather than come and do work for him?

It's very simple. Selected Life is already a successful company with a high valuation, and it's emerging as a leader in the industry. Among similar companies, Wang Yan is arguably the best performing, with stable data growth and an accelerating growth rate that's starting to show signs of explosive expansion. It's not something a trend-following rich kid like Gu Yuan can easily piggyback on.

Of course, another reason was that Gu Yuan looked down on Wang Yan's classmates, offering only a few thousand yuan, at most a little over ten thousand. He thought he could overwhelm Wang Yan's group of poor students, but in reality, the poor students were all laughing at his stinginess as a rich second-generation.

After securing funding, Wang Yan didn't keep all the profits to himself; he was no longer working for free and received some salary. The amount wasn't large, just over two thousand yuan, enough to live comfortably and well during university. Meanwhile, because the company often provided three meals a day for overtime work, everyone essentially earned a few hundred yuan more.

With the visible light ahead and Wang Yan's persuasive rhetoric, these people remained remarkably steadfast. Without spending a fortune and directly knocking them unconscious, it would be difficult to dig them out. After all, this concerned 'dreams,' 'greatness'...

In any case, Gu Yuan's company was now operating quite properly. While copying the model of Zhenxuan Life, it also started doing some local food delivery in Shanghai...

A month passed in the blink of an eye. The university had just started its summer vacation, and Xi Cheng, who had been sentenced to four months in prison, walked out of the detention center alone.

He didn't pay any attention, just looked at the photos on his newly turned-on phone.

In the photo, a smiling Wang Yan cups Nan Xiang's face in his hands, and Nan Xiang's expression is incredibly charming...

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