Jack Ma, a master in Internet field, is also one of the most famous entrepreneurs in China. Many words that Ma Yun said are regarded as wise words by many people. After all, this is the experience summed up by a successful entrepreneur from his own practical experience.
However, if an entrepreneur wants to achieve the goal of Malik Cloud, besides his own ability, it is often the team around him that decides success or failure. Behind Ma Yun's success is a group of people who silently support him. They are the earliest founders of Ali, "Eighteen Arhats".
1February 20th, 999, the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. That's on the third floor of Building 16, Lakeside Garden Community, Hangzhou. There is only a shabby sofa and some tall and short chairs.
Ma Yun and his founder, a total of 18 people, held a mobilization meeting here. Everyone turned around Ma Yun for half a circle, and Ma Yun stood in the middle to face everyone. One time is more than two hours. The core of the topic is: "We want to be the greatest Internet company in the world founded by China people."
"Some people believe because they see it, and some people see it because they believe it." Ma Yun and his founder are the latter. Even at that time, only a few people knew about the Internet, but Ma Yun seemed to stand in the future of the Internet and made his own layout. Fortunately, his partners trust him very much.
18 people raised 500,000 start-up funds together, and then each took different proportions of shares. Then Ma Yun wrote this list of shares worth "1000 billion" on a piece of paper, signed it separately and went into battle lightly.
At first, 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' homes to save money, eat a two-dollar box lunch 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, 2065438. As soon as it went public, it created the largest IPO record in history, with a market value of more than 20 billion US dollars. Naturally, the original 18 founders became billionaires.
But what many people don't know is that one of Ali's "eighteen arhats" was fired by Ma Yun in a rage because he made a mistake. He is Zhou, Ma Yun's student.
Zhou is a skilled java architect. Ali's earliest website was established by Zhou with Perl scripting language, and a set of bilingual programs was created on this basis, which can be said to be Ali's "great hero" and veteran figure.
Once, Zhou was lazy because he didn't want to rewrite the website he expected. After the new website went online, there was something wrong with the code he was responsible for. After Zhou knocked on the code, he went on a business trip and couldn't get in touch with the phone. As a result, Ma Yun got angry and decided to fire him.
When I came back on Monday, I saw the notice of dismissal. He knew that the teacher was really angry this time, so he sent several emails to apologize to Ma Yun. Ma Yun agreed to let him start over, starting with a new employee, with a three-month probation period. Of course, Zhou passed the examination and re-entered Ali, and became the first batch of technical experts in Ali in 2002.
Later, at the 10th anniversary party of Alibaba on September 10, 2009, the founder of this 18 resigned from Ma Yun and started from scratch. Some people finally left, and some people still became the main heads of various departments in Ali. Although Zhou finally resigned, his shares in Ali are a wealth that can't be spent all his life. Now, Zhou also has enough time and money to do more things he likes and wants to do, which is a good thing.