“Always keep other people’s criticisms of you in mind, and forget other people’s praises. Of course, when others criticize you, you should still remember this sentence: A man’s mind is full of grievances. Big one, don’t make it too angry” - Jack Ma

Jack Ma can be called a “guru” in the Internet field, and he is also one of the most well-known Chinese entrepreneurs. Bit. Many of what Jack Ma has said are regarded as wise words by many people. After all, these are the lessons learned from his own practical experience as a successful entrepreneur.

But for an entrepreneur to reach the stage like Jack Ma, in addition to his own ability, the team around him is often the basis for success or failure. Behind Jack Ma's success is a group of people who silently support him. They are the "Eighteen Arhats", the earliest founders of Alibaba.

On February 20, 1999, the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, on the third floor of the 16th building in the Lakeside Garden community in Hangzhou, the house had only four walls, only a shabby sofa and a few tall and short chair.

Jack Ma and his founder *** eighteen people held a mobilization meeting here. Everyone circled around Ma Yun for more than half a circle, and Ma Yun stood in the middle facing everyone. He spoke for more than two hours. The core of the topic is: "We want to be the greatest Internet company in the world founded by Chinese people."

"Some people believe because they see it, and some people see it because they believe it." Jack Ma His founder was the latter. Even at that time, the Internet was still something only a few people knew about, but Jack Ma seemed to be standing in the future of the Internet and making his own layout. Fortunately, his partners were extremely knowledgeable. Trust him.

Eighteen people together raised 500,000 yuan in start-up capital, and then each accounted for different proportions of shares. Then Jack Ma wrote this share list worth "100 billion" on a piece of paper, each of them Just sign it and get started with ease.

In the beginning, it was really difficult. Everyone only gets a salary of 500 yuan, and then rents a house in the lakeside garden. Some people simply live in farmers' houses to save money, eat a two-yuan lunch box, and work day after day.

Fortunately, everyone persisted. From the first round of financing to the second round of financing, it was officially listed on the New York Stock Exchange on September 19, 2014. Once listed, it created the largest IPO in history. According to records, the market value exceeds 20 billion US dollars, and naturally all of the original 18 founders have become billionaires.

But what many people don’t know is that one of Alibaba’s “Eighteen Arhats” was fired by Jack Ma out of anger for making a mistake. He was Jack Ma’s student Zhou Yuehong.

Zhou Yuehong is a skilled Java architect. Alibaba’s earliest website was built by Zhou Yuehong using the “Perl” scripting language. On this basis, he created a set of programs that support bilingual Chinese and English. It can be said that he is Ali's "great hero" and a veteran-level figure.

Once, Zhou Yuehong was passive and sabotaged because he did not want to rewrite the website he had planned. After the new website was launched, there was a problem with the piece of code he was responsible for. After Zhou Yuehong finished typing the code, he went on a trip to relax and couldn't be contacted by phone. As a result, Ma Yun became angry and decided to fire him.

As soon as Zhou Yuehong came back, he saw the dismissal notice. He knew that the teacher was really angry this time, so he sent several emails to Ma Yun to apologize. Ma Yun then agreed to let him start over from the beginning. New employees start with a three-month probationary period. Of course, Zhou Yuehong passed the assessment, re-entered Alibaba, and became the first batch of Alibaba technical experts in 2002.

Later at Alibaba’s 10th anniversary party on September 10, 2009, these 18 founders resigned as founders to Jack Ma and started from scratch. Some people left in the end, and some people still became the main persons in charge of various departments in Alibaba. Zhou Yuehong eventually resigned, but his shares in Alibaba were wealth that could never be spent in a lifetime.

Nowadays, Zhou Yuehong also has plenty of time and money to do more of the things she likes and wants to do, which is a good thing