You are too rich, but you may not be able to compare it (you must read)

Ma Yun is a typical example of grassroots entrepreneurship. From the rebellion of the silk to the "alien", who knows the suffering? It is richer than Fumayun, but it is worse than you, you really can't compare it. So from a certain perspective, the world is fair.

Job hunting rejected due to appearance

Almost everyone sees Ma Yun will be impressed, because like the alien ET 呗. Anyone, including Ma Yun, can now enjoy his appearance. But back more than 20 years ago, Ma Yun did not worry about his appearance. Not to mention the joint entrance exam 3 times, after the first joint exam fell, his dream is to go to the hotel as a waiter, but also dream of being a policeman, all because the appearance is rejected, it is plain: ugly!

The problem is, what is growing up, Ma Yun can't decide. By the way, he later found a piece of odd jobs and went to the tricycle to send magazines.

Translation agency subsidizes by selling socks

The Haibo Translation Agency, founded with friends, was Ma Yun’s original venture. The translation agency faced a dilemma from the beginning. The first month's income is 700 yuan, and the rent is 2,400 yuan. What should I do? In order to keep the business going, Ma Yun can only rent half of the translation agency to others. I started the second part-time job, carrying sacks to Yiwu wholesale flowers, flashlights, underwear, socks, crafts to sell - this looks like a boss. But then he had to go to the door to sell goods, including hospitals, barefoot doctors. Students in the English class also helped him to send flyers, banners and publicity at the door of the department store. I have been blinded by passers-by, and there is no such thing as a translator on the tall.

To be better, Ma Yun may have learned the hardships of small vendors and sales very early through this process, and prepared experience for the establishment of e-commerce platform in the future. But objectively speaking, the business of entrepreneurship is really not suitable for people with glass hearts. By the way, Ma Yun was one of the teachers with the most courses in the entire school of Hangzhou Institute of Electronics Technology. All of the above mentioned his amateur work.

"Ma Yun is the original source of the liar"

The business of "China Yellow Pages" is to put the information of domestic units on the Internet so that foreigners can find him. But at that time, there was no Internet in the country, and no one could see it, and it belonged to the category of "the letter is, the letter is not." The entrepreneurial team translates into English after receiving the customer information, and then delivers to the US partner to make a webpage - to be willing to pay for what you can't see, and which boss will not believe it. Therefore, the Ma Yun team not only has to prove that the customer information has been online, but also has to prove that there is something like the Internet in the world.

Ma Yun does not understand technology. What he can do is to keep saying that he goes out to tell people about the magic of the Internet every day, and he is still blowing in the food stalls. The boss does not believe that in addition to printing the webpage, the boss is also asked to make a free overseas phone call, ask relatives and friends in the United States, and let the Americans check the Internet. In 1995, Shanghai finally opened the Internet. The “China Yellow Pages” team also provided additional services – long-distance calls to Shanghai and then to the Internet. It took 3 and a half hours to see photos on the Internet, and the focus was on the hot pot. The ant's Ma Yun was ecstatic, and the grievances of tears fell.

In many cities without Internet, Ma Yun is always called a "liar." This is also the original source of "Ma Yun is a liar."

Ma Yun was "please" out

Ma Yun is now the chairman of the board of directors of Alibaba Group, but he was only a "salesman" that year. In the CCTV documentary "Study Ma Yun", the thin Ma Yun combed eight heads, carrying a black shoulder bag and knocking on the door to find someone. Everyone said, "I am here to promote the Chinese Yellow Pages." The patient people asked him to "please" out. There is a director who simply told reporters that this person is not like a good person!

In 1996, Ma Yun went to Beijing to sell to a certain committee in the country, saying that “China’s Yellow Pages is a propaganda for the State’s certain committee on the information superhighway, putting all of China on the computer and letting the world know about China”, and the answer is very impatient. "This thing you should first agree with, if you don't agree, I can't give you a satisfactory answer."

Ma Yun's appearance is exactly the same as any salesman on the street, but the closed door and white eyes not only did not change his belief in the Internet, but also became the spiritual driving force for the development of Alibaba's cause. This may be the biggest difference. Even after the establishment of Alibaba, employees went to the company to sell their business, and they were chased by dogs.

The fourth consecutive business failure since the age of 30

The Alibaba team had worked on a government project in Beijing, and finally Ma Yun decided to start another business in Hangzhou. In the 14 months in Beijing, Ma Yun never took the team to play, and on the last day they decided to go to the Great Wall. In the evening, in an unknown small restaurant, there is heavy snow in the world, everyone drinking big bowls, eating meat in large chunks, crying with a headache, and finally singing "True Hero", singing "Old Hero" to sing old songs, one song One after another, the group of people who went to the north and the north of the country avoided the word "parting" which was too heavy for them.

Many people don't remember what Ma Yun said that night, and he didn't know what kind of life he would face the next day, but that night, the wine was hot, the heart was hot, and the song was hot. Everyone remembers singing a "Heart Hero" for one night. This also means that Ma Yun has been the fourth consecutive entrepreneurial failure since he was 30 years old.

No one is optimistic, at least 200 yuan in the bank

In the only lyrics about Alibaba's investment, it is said that it takes 6 minutes to get Sun Yong's $20 million and Yahoo's later $1 billion. In fact, more pain is not known.

There is no luxury team configuration, and there is no American success model. Compared with peers in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, Alibaba was once the ugly duckling of the Internet industry. The Internet has always been known for burning money. Alibaba is also facing financial pressure after its founding. At the most embarrassing time, there are only 200 yuan in the bank. Once Ma Yun went to see the investors in Shanghai, the other party had a harsh condition. Ma Yun was dissatisfied but hesitated, so he sneaked out to ask his colleagues in finance, and the message was: there was no money in the account. After returning, Ma Yun still gave up the investment by biting his teeth.

He did not say that no one knew how painful his heart was at the time. At the IPO road show in New York 15 years later, Ma Yun took the form of jokes in the past: "I raised $2 million 15 years ago. I came to New York and failed. I have not given up for 15 years. This time I came to New York to want more money to go back."

The company almost collapsed due to SARS

Although Alibaba often said that SARS allows everyone to really pay attention to e-commerce that does not need to go out. But SARS almost caused Alibaba to collapse.

Because the employees went to Guangzhou to participate in the Canton Fair and contracted SARS, which made the whole of Hangzhou as the enemy, the largest isolation was carried out: more than 500 people were isolated, and the mayor of Hangzhou had just visited it the day before. As a result, the mayor and the followers were also isolated. The employees of other companies in the same building have ran away with telephones, fax machines, and computers. The company next door rushed into Alibaba to vent their anger. At that time, Alibaba was "famous" in Hangzhou, but the employees did not dare to say that they were working in Alibaba, just as they saw the tiger. Until the end of the isolation, when you walk to the street, you will be treated abnormally, and people will point at it.

During this period, all the employees went home, and some companies may be dissolved. But the work did not stop, the employees transferred their work calls to their homes, and even the elderly at home made up their habits and picked up the phone with the first sentence: "Hello, Alibaba."

Also affected was Taobao, which was still in a confidential period. On May 10th, Taobao was successfully launched, but because of SARS isolation, the scene was extremely shabby and even bleak—no flowers, no big meals, no flashlights, no cheerful music, no surging crowds. "In the slightly quiet bedroom, Ma Yun lying on the bed facing the ceiling, slowly raised the glass, devoutly and silently chanting: Bless the Taobao all the way. However, Ma Yun is not a lonely person, because he I know that at that moment, the same ceremony will be held simultaneously in more than ten residential buildings scattered in Hangzhou."

Therefore, on May 10, Alibaba was designated as "Ari Ri". Looking back on the suffering of SARS, thanks to the family members of the employees. Ma Yun also always reminds everyone in the Spring Festival e-mail to employees every year, "New Year's Eve, eight o'clock old habits, we are grateful to the empty toast, blessing."

Completely blocked by elephants

At the beginning of Taobao, the domestic c2c market already had the overlord eBay. In 2003, eBay and eBay had a market share of more than 90%. Whether it's technology, money, talent, market share or brand, eBay eBay is fully dominant. And released the words: Taobao can only survive for 18 months!

Taobao is not only completely backward, but even worse, it is completely blocked by eBay. eBay bought a keyword advertisement for "Taobao" in the search engine. When searching for Taobao, there was an advertisement for "To Taobao, to eBay", and on his homepage, "Tao Baby, Open a Store, Live a Good Life" Enjoy the slogan, which is exactly the ban on advertising. Then, eBay eBay signed a one-year exclusive advertising contract with major websites. The contract states that once these sites are found to have any cooperation or promotion related to eBay eBay competitors such as Taobao, they will be charged a high fine. Even on the opposite side of Taobao’s office, a billboard for ebay eBay was erected. Taobao can only vote for small and medium-sized websites. What's more interesting is that eBay will buy out all the online advertising on the website for two or three times as long as it puts advertisements on a website for a few days.

Taobao, which has nowhere to go, has to place advertisements on buses, elevators and MRT trains. Now, Taobao is already the most visited e-commerce website in the world.

Wenchuan donated 47.47 million and only donated 1 yuan for pollution.

At the time of the Wenchuan Earthquake in 2008, many companies announced that they would sponsor the disaster area. At this time, an article "Ma Yun donated 1 yuan for Wenchuan to calm down the back" was distributed in Tianya and Netease forums, and was distributed through the QQ group. The article said, "Ma Yun only donated one yuan... One yuan is enough to express an attitude... In evading responsibility... What is the difference between people in a disaster-stricken area and indirect violence?"

At the moment of national mourning, it was announced that “only donate 1 yuan, don’t donate money.” It quickly triggered the indignation of netizens. The forum was filled with the words “Ma Yun rolled out” and “I will never be on Taobao again”.

And all this turned out to be a thorough rumor. At that time, Ma Yun was abroad, and immediately donated 1 million when he heard the message. Then the whole company, employees, users and so on, together, eventually remitted 47.477 million yuan. At this time, it was smeared "only donate 1 yuan", and the black and white was reversed, so that the benevolent competitors made a big disaster.

In addition to direct donations, Alibaba subsequently assisted in the construction of the Qingchuan disaster area and used the advantages of the e-commerce platform to build a platform for the people of Qingchuan. And launched the "Ali Volunteer Action", and in the following years, employees have used various forces to help build Qingchuan. Do a long-term career of "giving people to fish."

Now there are two public welfare funds closely related to the Ali Group. The first is a group public welfare fund with a starting capital of 50 million yuan. It is supplemented by 0.3% of annual income every year. It is the first environmental protection fund for domestic Internet companies. Ma Yun and Cai Chongxin donated some of their stocks to set up a special personal welfare fund. The size of the fund is about 2% of Alibaba Group's market value, estimated to be between US$2 billion and US$4 billion. It is also the largest personal welfare fund in China.

The farce of "stealing Alipay"

In 2019, the incident of Ma Yun stealing Alipay has been raging. Yahoo revealed that Alibaba Group’s Alipay has been stripped out. This message has drawn attention from all walks of life. Many commentators have accused Ma Yun of forcibly transferring Alipay to his own name. The famous financial publishers believe that Ma Yun “stolen the day...has not complied with the contract...the illegal business principle...the mistake is in violation of the contractual principle of supporting the market economy. The consequences can not be underestimated ... may directly affect the trust of overseas investors in Chinese companies, forming a wide range of 'Alipay discounts'." There are still people who are uncomfortable in the Internet industry's VIE architecture exposed to the world, and even because of The falsification caused by the falsification of the stock market is also counted on Ma Yuntou.

With the gradual clarification of the incident, people discovered that the so-called "stealing" was not established, and the management had already discussed it on the board of directors several times, and all parties were informed. Secondly, the reason for the transfer is also in line with the regulations of the central bank and can sustain the development of the business such as Taobao. Even after the transfer, the shareholders have been conducting transparent negotiations on compensation. In the end, Yahoo, Softbank, and Ali Group reached a complete agreement, and Yahoo and Softbank praised, "will maintain the value of Taobao, and let all parties share the profits of Alipay, while ensuring that Alibaba Group can get value when Alipay is listed." "Based on the long-term deep partnership and mutual trust between Alibaba Group, Softbank and Yahoo."

Ma Yun’s share in Alipay is less than 8%, just like the Alibaba Group. Rushed the rumors that Ma Yunqiang took the levy of Alipay.

"The man's mind is aggrieved and big," Ma said. When you see the achievements of Alibaba and Ma Yun, you must not know that achievements are built on suffering.