Giving failure a chance is the greatest progress of society.
At the end of 2021, Xueersi held a not-so-grand farewell party for all employees. At the end, Zhang Bangxin used Su Shi's "Water Tune Song Head".
"People have sorrows and joys, and the moon has clouds and sunshine..."
Immediately, Zhang Bangxin silently bowed deeply to the camera, and then said a word "everyone take care", and left without looking back.
Compared with Yu Minhong's re-entrepreneurship, Zhang Bangxin, born in 1980, is more introverted, without too much voice, and even without more appeals, silence is the final answer for this young man.
As long as it is done and done, even if it fails, there is no regret.
As Han Han described in "Confession and Farewell", 1240 people, 106 days, 10000 kilometers, and then "After the End" was born.
For Zhang Bangxin, learning and thinking is the work that took more than ten years to complete.
Sometimes, I wonder if the Chinese people have overtaken education.
Obviously, every family has its own answer. These answers have spawned one story after another of wealth, whether it is the neon-lit city buildings or the mottled walls of the town, the traces of training and education can be found.
Learning and thinking is different from the stories of education and prosperity spawned by those capitals, behind it is the story of a cold disciple who studied hard and then was admitted to Peking University, and then changed his life.
In a replicable life, Zhang Bangxin's life trajectory is closest to our ordinary people, so in Zhang Bangxin's body, we don't seem to see the inspirational label, nor can we leave a deep impression.
However, it is such an ordinary young man who surpassed his predecessor Yu Minhong and also surpassed New Oriental.
In 2002, Zhang Bangxin, a graduate of Sichuan University, was admitted to Peking University for a master's and doctoral degree, and in order to alleviate financial pressure, the 22-year-old's first reaction was part-time.
The children of the poor have long been in charge, and Zhang Bangxin has not been able to "escape". After taking seven part-time jobs in one go, Zhang Bangxin found opportunities to change his life in the future in the family teaching.
Due to Zhang Bangxin's efforts and the good results achieved by the students, Zhang Bangxin, who was passed on by word of mouth by parents, opened the first class in his life - 20 students.
In 2003, in that era of Internet turmoil, Zhang Bangxin pulled his classmates to piece together 100,000 yuan and registered a company.
A room of less than 20 square meters, two tables, two chairs, became all the sustenance of this young man.
The place where the "dream" begins, it does not need to be very luxurious, but it is necessary to take this step bravely. In this way, Zhang Bangxin gradually made the classroom larger, the desks and chairs became newer, and the teaching points became more.
In 2005, the annual sales of Xueersi exceeded 10 million. For this educational institution, which has only been established for two years, it is already at the forefront of its peers.
In 2007, both Zhang Bangxin and Xueersi were an important turning point, when Xueersi decided to go out of Haidian to other districts and counties in Beijing, and ventured into the tutoring market, while moving the curriculum online. Zhang Bangxin, who is also a doctoral student, received two options from his supervisor:
First, shut down the company and study well;
Second, withdrawal.
Perhaps it is the environment in which the children of the peasant family are born, or perhaps the influence of society, for Zhang Bangxin, the career at this time may be more important, so he chose to drop out of school.
The story since then has no twists and turns, and surprisingly smooth. But for this young man, this is the best gift of fate.
In 2012, Zhang Bangxin brought xueersi into the New York Stock Exchange, and at the age of 29, he became the youngest bell ringer on the New York Stock Exchange at that time, compared with other entrepreneurs who were young and crazy, Zhang Bangxin had no scandals, nor did he have a high-profile luxurious life, and still deeply cultivated education became Zhang Bangxin's only answer.
After more than ten years of development, Good Future has more than 2.3 million students in 42 cities across the country, and online students have reached 17 million.
In 2017, Zhang Bangxin surpassed his predecessor Yu Minhong with a wealth of 14.4 billion yuan, ranking 112th in the Forbes China Rich List and 1st in the education industry.
Subsequently, the market value revenue of Xueersi also began to surpass New Oriental in an all-round way. Yu Minhong once said: "I like Zhang Bangxin a lot, and he also likes me a lot."
Xu Xiaoping, one of the "troikas" of New Oriental, also commented: "Good Future is an education company that truly has the heart of the Internet, and all the promotion and marketing of Good Future is through the Internet, almost all free." New Oriental relies on speech marketing and word of mouth, so New Oriental spends a lot of money on advertising and promotion. ”
If there is no change in this industry, then I believe that Zhang Bangxin will be able to go further.
At that farewell meeting, Zhang Bangxin quoted the famous words of Master Hongyi: "The most unfortunate thing in life is that there is an occasional misstep, and the misfortune is not enough; the occasional misstep, and the matter is fortunate; the occasional act is arbitrary, and a small profit is obtained." The latter is regarded as the norm, and the idyllic is not intentional. Then a great affliction is born. ”
And Master Hongyi is also the person Yu Minhong admires the most.
The closure of Chinese mainland all discipline-based off-campus training services at the stage of compulsory education is a farewell to Zhang Bangxin and a confession to his past years, giving opportunities to "losers", which is our greatest progress.
As Yu Minhong said, try to do the most correct thing, and the rest will be left to God.