Li Lin was indeed the right person to leave his troubles to. Within a week, she had secured everything that he would need to make his Educational Platform.
She even managed to get him some permissions that made his platform a non-profit platform, saving him from all the excess taxes and monitoring that he would have to go through otherwise.
It was indeed true that the platform made little profit, but that was in proportion to the amount of money that would be exchanged on the platform.
Lu Fan was only going to take a fee for the transactions that would take place on the platform. Something like, for every 100 yuan exchanged, he would only take 0.01% progressively.
That was indeed very little if looked at from a single user's point of view, but with the increase of users, this figure would grow into an insane amount.
There were more than 7 billion people on the planet. If he could even get 10% of the population to use the platform… it was just insane.
But Lu Fan had little use for this method of making money. I mean, if things went too well and the amount he made drew attention, it would be troublesome. That was especially the case because the platform had already been registered as a non-profit.
To avoid all that trouble, Lu Fan could only invest in the growth of the platform and gathering more users. Something like using that money to open schools was still ok, right?
As for who those schools would belong to, he would think of that when the time came. At this moment, he needed to form a team of developers to maintain the platform.
This platform was not like META where things were set in stone and required little technical expertise to maintain.
Besides having a service team, the education platform needed to evolve constantly to meet the needs of students and teachers alike. The monetary system was not helping either.
META worked on a proof of history and proof of work basis, meaning that the user only had to do something and meet certain milestones to get paid. It was all straightforward with no particular hurdle that required others to interfere much.
However, the Education Platform had a lot of places that needed strict monitoring and checks. It also worked on a proof of authority, meaning that all transactions would be agreed upon by the two involved parties before they did the work.
This was a good way to ensure that no shady things happened behind the scenes on the platform's side, but it was also a good way for the users to do some shady things that have nothing to do with education.
Something like international transactions that cost a pretty penny on other platforms would only cost cents on the platform. All one needed to do was say that they taught someone for them to receive money.
It was all complicated and needed to be adjusted on the go to prevent such things.
Lu Fan had no problem with users exploiting the system like that, but he had a problem with it interfering with the platform's development. If these transactions attracted too much attention, it would not be good.
He had to set a limit to the amount that could be transferred on the platform, but as a solution, he would also create another platform like WISE.
If changing money between borders was the issue, why not give someone in country A money so that they can transfer the same amount from their account in country B?
That was a very clever way of maneuvering the system but it also required strict management and monitoring. And since it was a new banking system, Lu Fan had to start it the same way he would a bank.
He needed to open local branches all over the world and go through government approvals and all that. It was tedious and troublesome. It was better to leave such things to lawyers and financial agents.
That aside, he had only used a week to create the bare framework of the platform and could now start collecting information from the public and other institutions. Just thinking of the amount of money he would have to pour into the whole thing was staggering.
If this information was not going to be of use in training AIs, he would have just left that part to other institutions entirely.
Lu Fan could only console himself like this. This information could also be sold to other big companies when they start looking for information to train their AIs. But that was 10 years from now.
Making sure that everything was in place, Lu Fan launched the Surveys and other similar tools.
"Now, where are we going to start a server farm?"
The servers he had now could hold on for a while, but those servers were only meant for META and they could not handle the amount of information that he was expecting.
He also needed to prepare for the launch of the education platform that he had decided to call OpIS.
Those surveys were also a good way of advertising. He had made sure to include META and its contribution to the upcoming OpIS and the way to make money using both platforms.
Everything was all about the money.
…
Li Lin had been running around like a fly since she agreed to work for Lu Fan.
That guy had the wildest mind and would think up idea after idea and they were all good. She could hardly believe it.
This guy looked like a harmless high school boy, but his mind was shrewd, with the cunning of an old man. He never fell for her tricks even once.
What's more, it was as if he could read her thoughts. Every trick that she wanted to perform in front of him would be resolved easily.
For example, she had agreed to work for him so that she could have control over his assets. She even agreed to host the company in her building for more leverage. But the guy just left the whole thing to her. He did not even question some of the policies that she had come up with as long as the company could handle them.
It threw her for a loop.
Who starts such a good business and just leaves it to someone else without any checks in place? True, he would give his input once in a while, but whether Li Lin did as he said or not, Lu Fan never bothered.
It was not that Li Lin did not do those things as they were honestly the best way, but would he be invested just a little?
It was… it was frustrating. But the smile that she wore every day showed that Li Lin would not have it any other way.
At least, Lu Fan did not micromanage her the way her father did.