Chapter 124: Speech
Su Zhuorui and Tang Miaomiao played for a while, loosened their muscles, and sweated, "Don't play, don't play, I'll take a shower." By the way, I sold some food from Chinatown, and we ate hot pot for a while. Miao Miao, you wash the lettuce first. β
Tang Miaomiao lay on the sofa and said lazily: "I can't wash, I can only eat." β
Su Zhuorui slapped her ass, "I'm too lazy to kill you!"
Ignoring Tang Miaomiao, Su Zhuorui walked into the bathroom, took off her clothes and threw her underwear into the washing machine, and was about to take a shower, when she suddenly found Tang Miaomiao's underwear thrown in the dirty laundry basket.
Su Zhuorui frowned, lifted Tang Miaomiao's underwear and wanted to throw it into the washing machine to wash it, but it was cold and wet at the beginning.
Su Zhuorui was stunned for a moment, and saw that the color at the bottom of the underwear was obviously darker than other places, and the area was not small.
As soon as dinner was over, Moretz called and told Zhang Chen that the committee had agreed to his proposal.
Sequoia has a special legal department to be responsible for the drafting of the agreement, and Zhang Chen does not need to worry about it, as long as the agreement is signed, 30% of the $20 million will be allocated to Zhang Chen in proportion, and after financial processing, Zhang Chen actually got about 2.2 million.
For Sequoia's investment in ICQ, it only needs to find a suitable time to announce it to the public, in fact, this is the real Series A financing.
Sequoia plans to assign a CFO to ICQ and promises to help ICQ find a suitable Chief Operating Officer as soon as possible. This is also what Zhang Chen requested, after all, it is still too reluctant to let Viggs be in charge of the operation.
But kicking the founder out of the game, whether it is Zhang Chen or Sequoia, will not be done easily. This kind of thing has a bad reputation, and when you invest in the entrepreneurial team in the future, it is easy to make the other party worried.
On Sunday morning, Zhang Chen returned to school, where he has been in the limelight lately, and many students and faculty within Stanford know that the founders of ICQ and Million Dollar are now taking summer courses at the school. So Rice gave him the task of giving a talk in the Brotherhood Hall on Monday morning.
Zhang Chen was a little embarrassed when he heard this request, this is Stanford, there have been more than 60 Nobel Prize winners, more than 20 Turing Award winners, and 7 Fields Medal winners. In this environment where big cows are walking all over the ground and calves are not as good as dogs, isn't it an axe in the class?
But Rice still insisted that Zhang Chen talk about it, because his experience is more representative and he has more dramatic conflicts, so many students are very interested in him. Moreover, Rice told Zhang Chen that this was not a high-level speech, more similar to a student exchange, so there was no need to have any psychological burden.
Zhang Chen can't say how hard it is, because of the success of Million Dollar and ICQ, many people think that Zhang Chen has a very high business talent and sense of smell, and has a certain amount of research in the field of Internet and economics. For example, his concept that the world will be wiped out has attracted the attention of many economists, including Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedmanγγγγγγ
But in fact, Zhang Chen is completely relying on the foreknowledge brought by rebirth and a half-understanding of many economic phenomena. Regarding Friedman's attention, Zhang Chen is sweating in his heart, uncle, this is the theory you put forward a few years laterγγγγγγ
Since Rice asked for this, Zhang Chen could only agree to it, so he rushed to the Brotherhood Hall early Monday morning, and the speech was about to start at ten o'clock.
Looking at the sparse crowd at the entrance of the auditorium, Zhang Chen's heart settled down a little, fortunately, it didn't seem that there were too many people. Also, it's still summer, how can there be too many people coming.
Zhang Chen happened to see Sanatanu hurrying over at the door of the auditorium, "Hey, buddy, what is the topic of your speech today?"
Zhang Chen smiled bitterly: "It's not our provost yet, I have to give a speech on a summer course, and I haven't prepared anything, so I can talk about whatever comes to mind." β
Shanatanu said enviously: "Although I know that you have made a lot of money on ICQ and the grid website recently, I really didn't expect to have so much." Condoleezza mentioned you to me the day before yesterday, saying that your performance at the orientation party last time made a deep impression on her. β
Zhang Chen asked, "Condoleezza is your recommender?" β
"She's friends with my father, you know, sometimes it's awkward. β
I'll go, big gossip!" Zhang Chen exclaimed in his heart.
As we all know, Rice did not get married until 20 years later, but there were some scandals with George W. Bush, and when Gaddafi was arrested, a photo album was found from Gaddafi's bedroom, which was full of Rice's photos. Gaddafi also affectionately called Rice his little sweetheartγγγγγγ
And now, Rice and Shanatanu's father still have such a paragraph.
Zhang Chen patted Sanatanu's shoulder sympathetically, with a strong figure like Rice paying attention, Shanatanu's life at Stanford will definitely not be easy. Rice is a well-known academic bully, who has been extremely self-disciplined since his school days and is eager to get ahead. One can imagine what her attitude towards Shanatanu is.
The two entered the auditorium together, Zhang Chen only felt dizzy, why are there so many people in Wuyang and Wuyang? Why do there have to be three or four hundred, could it be that the students of the Stanford summer program are all here?
The lecture was organized by the computer science major, and Zhang Chen said hello to a few familiar teachers and walked to the podium.
Looking at the crowd in the audience, Zhang Chen took a deep breath, "Wow, I'm so nervous, I see your heads spinning now, just like Van Gogh's starry sky." Zhang Chen made a joke, and there was some sparse laughter from the audience.
"The other day the provost approached me and asked me to give a talk, and I immediately refused. What are you kidding? This is Stanford, how can a little kid like me, who is just a freshman in an American high school, give a speech here? But Condoleezza told me that it was just a casual exchange between a few students, and I believed it. Condoleeza, I hate you. Zhang Chen paused, looked at Rice in the first row, and made a heartbroken expression.
"I was thinking about what I could say. In the end, I still think I should talk to you about my dreams. β
"The word dream, sometimes it's been used so badly, everybody will ask, 'What is your dream?' and then we'll say something that seems ambitious or emotional, thinking it's our dream. β
"But I think that the so-called dream is an imagination of what kind of world the world should be in my heart, what I really hope for. And what is reality? Reality is what the world has made you look like. β