In 1998, Liu Qiangdong took all his savings of 12,000 yuan and rented a small counter in Zhongguancun, Beijing, to sell burners and CDs, and the name of the counter was "Jingdong Multimedia", which was the predecessor of Jingdong.
In March 1993, Ma Yun and his eighteen arhats returned to Hangzhou and gathered 500,000 yuan in a lakeside villa to develop Alibaba's website.
Now that more than twenty years have passed, the two are naturally successful, of course, accompanied by a lot of controversy, but also gradually withdrawn from the front of the stage. But how are the elders who accompanied them to build a business empire now?
Just like today's protagonist, JD.com's 001 employee, Zhang Qi.
Zhang Qi, according to the time calculation, should be born in 1983. There is actually not much other information about him, because he did not have such a high degree of exposure and popularity as Liu Qiangdong after him, and we naturally know nothing about the past, or even the place of birth.
To some extent, if it is not the name of the 001 employee, he is actually like most of the Chinese bosses, who belongs to the vegetarian, or rather, like Liu Qiangdong, Ma Yun, such as the topical boss, after all, is also a minority.
And let's go back to the very beginning. Liu Qiangdong and Zhang Qi in 1998 were just ordinary people.
At that time, Liu Qiangdong was at the Jingdong multimedia counter in Zhongguancun, conscientiously selling burners and CDs. On the counter, which is only 4 square meters in size, Liu Qiangdong is the boss, is the sales, is the after-sales service, and even the customer service, publicity, marketing, finance, procurement and so on.
Although at this time Jingdong multimedia, the difficulty of the work is not high, after all, Liu Qiangdong at that time did not have the function of independent research and development, the main thing to do is the left hand to the right hand of the work, but can not help a person to be divided into eight people, while Liu Qiangdong's goods quality passed, the operation is formal, so the business has always been good, interjected, in June 2001, Liu Qiangdong only used 3 years, let Jingdong become the most influential agent in the field of optical magnetic products, becoming the industry leader.
In this case, Liu Qiangdong is bound to need a helper. The opportunity soon arose. At that time, an old customer saw that Liu Qiangdong was too busy to touch the ground, so he introduced himself, of course, not to recommend himself. He recommended one of his nephews to Liu Qiangdong, who was in desperate need of an assistant. The reason is also very sufficient: as an old customer, Liu Qiangdong's character is naturally no different, as long as this nephew does not die of hunger, he can also see the world.
In this way, in 1999, Zhang Qi, who was only 16 years old, became the 001 employee of JD.com.
At that time, Zhang Qi's monthly salary was 600 yuan. This treatment is actually not too bad, or it can only reach this point in the early stage of entrepreneurship. Compared with Alibaba in the same period, like Peng Lei, an employee of 007, who was once the chairman of Ant Financial and the CEO of Alipay, her salary that year was also about 500 yuan.
In addition, relatively speaking, Alibaba's eighteen luohans are not lacking in high-quality students, Cai Chongxin's annual salary of 700,000 US dollars is not to say more, and 16-year-old Zhang Qi, who has a high school education, from this point of view, Liu Qiangdong's treatment of employees is indeed not too faulty.
Zhang Qi was initially responsible for counter sales. However, it is obvious that unless it was a state-run salesman, most of the sales staff could not avoid one thing, that is, they encountered all kinds of strange customers, some looked down on you, some deliberately made it difficult for you, and some simply spat out evil words.
The 16-year-old Zhang Qi is the stage of strong self-esteem, although he is full of patience, but from time to time there is a stage full of grievances and angry want to throw up his hands. At this time, Liu Qiangdong did not instill all kinds of chicken soup for the soul, nor did he directly send him away with a big hand, but often used his personal experience to lead and teach Zhang Qi how to deal with it step by step.
Later, Zhang Qi participated in the procurement process.
At this time, something happened, which initially made him firm in his idea of working in JD.com.
At that time, procurement was not a simple thing, in the era when mobile phones were not popular, let alone Taobao was not formed, so procurement could only come to the door in person, but it was the norm. At this time, Liu Qiangdong was equipped with mobile phones for the company's employees to facilitate contact with the boss, which left a very deep impression on Zhang Qi. In later memories, Zhang Qi said that when he met such a generous boss, there was no reason not to do a good job.
But to say that Zhang Qi's iron heart is to "fight for Liu Qiangdong's life", it must be 50,000 yuan.
That year, Zhang Qi's sister got married, and he was too busy with work to take care of the elderly in the family, which made Zhang Qi very entangled in his heart, and over time it also affected the working state, and the whole person was a little absent-minded. After Liu Qiangdong keenly discovered that Zhang Qi was wrong, he did not go to the root of the matter or pursue responsibility.
Instead, after going to work one day, he directly took out 50,000 yuan into an envelope and handed it to Zhang Qi, and said that he knew that he was under pressure during this time and was at ease working here, and the 50,000 yuan you took to supplement the family.
This is 50,000 yuan around 2000, or 50,000 yuan from JD.com, which used money everywhere in the initial stage. As the saying goes, a soldier dies for a confidant, and after only a few years of following Liu Qiangdong, he has the courage to spend fifty thousand yuan to reassure himself, zhang Qi is deeply moved by this, and this life is decided to hand over to Liu Qiangdong. In fact, Zhang Qi also formed a family in Jingdong and had children.
Since then, Zhang Qi has spared no effort to support Liu Qiangdong. As mentioned earlier, in 2001, JD.com became the industry leader, and Liu Qiangdong's personal wealth exceeded 10 million, but when he planned to copy the model of Gome and Suning. The Sars virus is coming. Just like today's epidemic, for JD.com, which was mainly offline at that time, it was tantamount to a disaster.
For a time, but also for the safety of employees, Liu Qiangdong helplessly closed all offline stores. But people can't sit and wait for death, Liu Qiangdong heard that someone was selling things on the Internet, so he thought that this might be an opportunity, so even if Liu Qiangdong didn't even understand what BBS meant at that time, he also plunged into various forums to advertise.
At this time, the good reputation of that year was brought into play. At that time, the founder of a forum replied to Liu Qiangdong's post, saying that JD.com knew that it was the only company that he had bought in Zhongguancun for three years without buying fakes. Because of this sentence, Liu Qiangdong closed six transactions on the same day.
Among them, Zhang Qi did not hesitate to promote Liu Qiangdong's decision, led his team to plan several successful marketing activities, and helped Jingdong out of one of the most difficult moments, because at that time, most people actually opposed Liu Qiangdong's decision to move offline to online, after all, Jingdong started offline, business advantages, business foundation, business relations are in, as long as SARS passes, it will soon continue to maintain a leading position. And plunging into an unfamiliar online field, will this be a wrong move to kill yourself? No one dares to give assurances.
Of course, the latter events proved that Liu Qiangdong's decision was correct.
And Zhang Qi is in Jingdong, staying for more than twenty years. As an employee of 001, he has followed JD.com all the way to become a behemoth. It can be said that he changed the trajectory of his life.
In recent years, such as April 8, 2019, Zhang Qi has served as a legal person of Yunhe Travel Agency founded by JD.com, as an executive director and manager.
On May 17 of the same year, Zhang Qi became a legal person of Jingdong (Yancheng) Cloud Computing Co., Ltd.
A month later, on June 14, he once again became a legal person of Guangxi Jingdong Shangyou Media Co., Ltd., and also served as an executive director and manager.
Combined with JD.com and various companies over the years, Zhang Qi's current wealth is not too much of a problem, and even breaking 100 million is normal.
Of course, some people have to say, compared with Alibaba's eighteen arhats, Zhang Qi seems to be a little less. After all, like Peng Lei in the Eighteen Arhats, Cai Chongxin and even Ma Yun's wife Zhang Ying, they are basically hundreds of millions of dollars, and their fame is not small.
But in fact, this is linked to the size of their respective companies and personal choices. If it is really better than it, it is inexhaustible. Or compared with ma yun and Liu Qiangdong's wealth, these entrepreneurial 001 employees, eighteen luohans, are not enough to see.
However, the courage and vision to stick to a company is indeed not for everyone, Yang Lijuan, the most cattle waiter in Haidilao, because of the 800 yuan that Daniel Zhang send charcoal in the snow, only for twenty years, Haidilao has not abandoned it, and her net worth has soared by three billion. There is also today's protagonist Zhang Qi, who insisted on today with a monthly salary of 600 at the age of 16, and also successfully realized wealth freedom.
What we should see is their courage and persistence and loyalty, but we can't ignore the trust and dedication of their bosses, which is the best explanation for mutual achievement.