wavenovel Chapter 349: It's Only a Matter of Time
Chapter 349: It's Only a Matter of Time
The next day, Wu Duo, Zhang Gaolei, and Xiao Qianlan attended the graduation ceremony of Huang Xiaochuan, Ding Yi, and Chen Zhe.
This was Xiao Qianlan's first time attending a university graduation ceremony in mainland China. She was curious about everything and kept taking pictures with her camera. For her, it was just a matter of using a few more rolls of film.
After the ceremony, the university students took photos of each other. Huang Xiaochuan acted as the photographer, since he was the best at taking pictures. Even Ding Yi, who loved photography the most, had to admit that Huang Xiaochuan was good at everything and could make a lot of fun with a broken camera!
The whole class took a group photo, and Wu Duo and Zhang Gaolei also participated, so there were no regrets.
Zhai Xi even casually put her arm around Huang Xiaochuan's shoulder and took a photo together.
After taking the photos, Zhai Xi said, "Parting ways now, we'll be separated by thousands of miles. Who knows when we'll meet again? Take good care of yourself, sir!"
Huang Xiaochuan chuckled and touched his nose, saying, "Hey squad leader, where did you learn this from? It makes us sound like江湖儿女 (people of the martial arts world)."
Zhai Xi laughed and said, "How about it? That's quite fitting, isn't it?"
Huang Xiaochuan raised his camera: "I'll take more photos of you! I'll send them to you later."
Zhai Xi teased Huang Xiaochuan, "It's okay, I don't mind if you want to secretly keep a few."
Huang Xiaochuan: ""
Wow, have they all shown their true colors after graduation? They're all so outrageous, daring to say the most outrageous things. Who says women are inferior to men? When they really go crazy, they're even more formidable than men.
After Huang Xiaochuan took photos of Zhai Xi, a group of female classmates asked him to take photos of them. After taking the photos, the female classmates gave Huang Xiaochuan a big hug, and some of them even dared to kiss his head a few times, leaving him with red lipstick marks on his face. It was quite embarrassing. The female classmates laughed unrestrainedly when they saw Huang Xiaochuan like this.
Standing by watching the commotion, Ding Yi commented sourly, "That damn Huang Xiaochuan, he's even more popular with women than I am."
Wu Duo looked at him and couldn't help but say something to him.
"I've never seen anyone say you're popular with women."
"Old Wu, you should be kind to others. You'll have no friends if you keep talking like this, you know?" Ding Yi learned this way of speaking from Huang Xiaochuan.
Wu Duo gave him a pair of white eyes, telling him to figure it out for himself.
After a while, Wu Duo asked Ding Yi, "Are you really decided?"
Ding Yi knew what Wu Duo was asking: "Is that even a question? I applied for unpaid leave after reporting for duty. If it weren't for my parents, I wouldn't even have wanted to report for duty."
Ding knew he had been assigned to the Economic Commission before graduation, but unfortunately, he had no intention of going. He had already planned to take a leave of absence without pay and was just waiting to complete the onboarding procedures before applying.
Chen Zhe successfully passed the postgraduate entrance examination and will be going to Shanghai Dan University across the street to pursue his postgraduate studies after this summer.
After the graduation ceremony, Zhang Gaolei and Huang Xiaochuan had a private chat, mainly about Gaze's continued fundraising.
Gaze browser is currently the only dominant player in the internet browser market, and other smaller companies simply cannot compete with it because they cannot obtain the necessary licenses for mosaic technology unless they find another way to do so. However, even large companies cannot do this, let alone smaller companies.
Now, Gaze has moved its office building and recruited hundreds of excellent programmers, resulting in rapid growth. Even internet giants like Microsoft want to collaborate with Gaze, as mentioned in Chapter 349 of the novel "Cola Novel": "It's Only a Matter of Time," where the other party has proposed integrating the Gaze browser into their Windows operating system under development and has also expressed interest in acquiring a stake in Gaze.
Of course, this information is confidential, but there is no need to keep it secret from a major shareholder like Huang Xiaochuan, so Huang Xiaochuan can always learn everything from Zhang Yun as soon as possible.
In his previous life, Microsoft acquired Mosaic and developed the famous Internet Explorer browser based on it, embedding it in Windows and defeating Netscape. However, things have changed in this life. With the advent of Gaze, there is no more Netscape. Huang Xiaochuan even asked Zhang Yun to inquire and confirm that no company named Netscape had been registered. Nevertheless, Huang Xiaochuan still asked Zhang Yun to register the name Netscape, just to be on the safe side.
Zhang Gaolei said to Huang Xiaochuan, "Goldman Sachs wants to push Gaze to go public as soon as possible, but now Microsoft wants to get involved and take a share of the pie. Catherine's opinion is to agree to let Microsoft join in. I think it won't hurt us to let Microsoft join in, after all, the Windows they are currently beta testing is really amazing."
Upon hearing this, Huang Xiaochuan knew that Zhang Gaolei had already experienced the Windows operating system.
"I have no objection to that either." Huang Xiaochuan felt that a powerful alliance wouldn't do him any harm, so there was no need to object.
With Zhang Yun handling the Gaze matter, Huang Xiaochuan was spared a lot of energy. He asked Zhang Gaolei how David Young was doing lately.
Upon hearing Huang Xiaochuan mention these two people, Zhang Gaolei told Huang Xiaochuan everything he knew.
"That guy and Yosen named their website 'Yuho!' and now they have over 200,000 users. Many venture capitalists have approached them, but unfortunately, they're not short of money, so they've politely declined all the offers."
Huang Xiaochuan was so shocked when he heard this terrible name that his jaw almost dropped.
"Why did you choose such a name?"
David said that users were so excited after using their search function that they would exclaim "Wow!" to express their amazement, so they named the website and company after it.
Okay! Huang Xiaochuan felt there was no need to agonize over what to name it; calling it "Cat" or "Dog" was fine, as long as it gained user approval.
After finishing their business, Huang Xiaochuan asked Zhang Gaolei, "What are your plans after Gaze goes public?"
Zhang Gaolei said, "If that day ever comes, after I finish my studies, I will do what I like to do. I won't work or start a business. I will invest in a few good projects and spend most of my time enjoying life to the fullest."
Upon hearing this, Huang Xiaochuan began to envy Zhang Gaolei. In fact, this was Huang Xiaochuan's original thought, but as his wealth expanded, Huang Xiaochuan developed a strong sense of responsibility, and his original idea of lying down and doing nothing became unrealistic. Now he is working hard according to his newly set life goals.
"You, Old Zhang, really know how to enjoy life. By the way, when are you planning to go to Taiwan?"
Upon hearing Huang Xiaochuan mention this, Zhang Gaolei couldn't help but grumble: "Damn it, those damn Taiwanese! It's so convenient for them to come here, the procedures are so simple. But when I go to their place, the procedures are ridiculously complicated. They keep asking for this and that. If I hadn't promised Qianlan that I couldn't back out, I wouldn't even bother going!"
"Hehe! It's okay, be patient. Sooner or later, we won't need any documents to travel between us anymore. Just like when you travel from Shanghai to Taikang, you only need to buy a ticket."
"You're right, it was only a matter of time!"
A few days later, Huang Xiaochuan, Ding Yi, and Chen Zhe saw Wu Duo and Zhang Gaolei off. Zhang Gaolei was going to take Xiao Qianlan home to meet his parents, and then accompany Xiao Qianlan to Xinyang to trace her roots.
After seeing Zhang Gaolei and the others off, Huang Xiaochuan received a call from Zhang Yun.