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In the past few years, I have experienced the ups and downs of my life.
I started a company and earned my first 1 million, but I ended up at the bottom and had nothing.
Today, I would like to share my story with you.
01
At the beginning of 2017, at the age of 22, a few friends and I started our business. We have big ambitions and vow to break out of our own world.
At that time, the live broadcast was still in the dividend period, in order to catch up with the wind outlet, several of us were busy talking about project channels, changing plans, and doing ground pushing every day. Staying up late is a common occurrence.
But because we are young, because we have dreams, we are like chicken blood every day, and we don't feel hard at all.
Man! It is to make a career, not to fight to break through, how to know what they can mix into?
I believe that even if the company is just starting out now, every bit of hard work belongs to us, and no one can take it.
As the old saying goes, "The Emperor's heavens pay off!" ”
After several months of hard work, various capital began to pour in, and the live broadcasting industry continued to develop, which also allowed our company to ride the wind smoothly.
Xiaomi founder Lei Jun once said: "Standing on the wind outlet, pigs can fly." ”
And we're going to fly!
In less than half a year of entrepreneurship, the company has achieved profitability, and several head anchors who are mainly promoted have also successfully gained a foothold on a certain platform.
The company has also changed from a few people to more than 30 people. There were constantly partners coming to talk about cooperation and shareholding, and we quickly moved from the suburban houses to the second ring road in the city center.
At that time, I even began to fantasize that soon, I would stand on the NASDAQ exchange in the United States and ring the bell of victory!
Every time I think of this scene, I get excited!
02
At the beginning of 2019, after two years of development, the company's personnel scale tended to nearly 100 people, and we finally had our own office.
With the success of several live annual gala events, we have also successfully launched our own brand.
At that time, several local bosses approached us and proposed two tempting cooperation proposals:
The first option is that they provide us with financing to help our company continue to scale.
However, the premise is that we must sign a "VAM agreement", and if we fail to complete the profits agreed in the contract on time, the consequences will be very serious.
The second option is that they directly fund the acquisition of our company's shares, which means that we have nothing to do with the company from now on.
No matter which program, the funds are more than 10 million! It is impossible to say that it is not heartwarming.
But at that time, we were too young and overestimated ourselves, and we directly rejected the other party's proposal.
The company is rising steadily, and we haven't thought about blindly expanding, but we haven't thought about selling the company. When the partners left in mourning, we felt dismissive.
Who knows at the end of the year, a live broadcast platform suddenly announced bankruptcy liquidation, and the sudden change caught us off guard.
Our focus of funds has always been on the platform, and the collapse of the platform has given us no chance to retreat.
03
Only blame us for being too careless!
The actual controller of this platform is a well-known rich second generation, so we never suspected that it would suddenly go bankrupt.
In order to save the company, we began to seek help from people all over the country, and staying up late once again became the norm. However, no matter how hard we try, in the end things still do not go in a good direction.
The platform on which the company depends for survival is gone, the capital chain is broken, and the people's hearts are scattered...
We have lasted for half a month, and we have also tried to switch to other platforms, but the dividend period has passed, and the anchors of major platforms have become saturated, and we have completely failed!
Under our deliberation, we dismissed all the employees, and on the night we settled our wages, several of us sat in the empty office, speechless.
I smoked one cigarette after another, letting the tears run down my cheeks.
That was the first time I regretted it so much, even pounding my chest and thinking back, why didn't I sign the agreement in the first place? Why not just sell the company?
However, there is no if!
I pressed the urge to slap myself and remind myself, "Life can't start again!" I have to pay for my choices! ”
Wipe away your tears and life goes on.
Immediately after that, we started selling assets, paying off debts, and after everything was done, several of our partners also chose to go their separate ways.
Later, I did not have the blood and passion of when I first started my business, and that time was the darkest moment of my life, and I lived like a walking dead every day.
04
After two years of recovery and adjustment, I gradually came out of the darkness.
Now, I live a mediocre life every day, drinking tea and chatting with friends. I can even sit down calmly and tell the people around me about that special life experience.
Later, when a few of our friends met again, they all teased me, saying that I had entered the old age life and had a sense of "contentment" between the two sides.
I just laughed, didn't refute or speak. Because I know that this is not necessarily a good thing.
People will grow up in experience, and the experience of entrepreneurial failure has made me know how to calm down and look at problems with a long-term perspective.
I will no longer be as impulsive and aggressive as before, and I have learned to be low-key and do things.
Today, I no longer blindly chase the wind outlet, but believe in the power of thick accumulation.
I believe that as long as I am ready, when the opportunity comes again, I will definitely hold on tight.
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