Holding golf clubs, wearing a small white hat and wearing a white casual top, Ma Yun rarely appeared on the golf course in The Island of Llorca, Spain after 200 million US dollars (about 1.3 billion yuan), after spending 200 million US dollars (about 1.3 billion yuan) to buy, the "Zen" yacht that took 4 years to build and complete quietly docked on the shore, properly a god life after the retirement of the big guy.
Coupled with the previous frequent reduction of Ali shares by Ma Yun, now only 4.5% is left, and the cash out before and after is more than 100 billion, which makes people inevitably guess, is it really the old horse that is late and the jianghu is over?
In fact, it is not the case, the old horse has done at least three things that deserve praise and admiration, which are worth remembering.
One is mobile payment. In the past, we had to carry wallets and cash wherever we went, and we often fell into the problem of not being able to find change and changing to fake currency; Even lightning and thunder have to go out to pay utility bills, and if you forget it, you may fall into darkness all night; In order to buy a ticket home, there are always people standing at the Spring Festival Train Station and so on. But in 2008, Ma Yun took the phrase "If the bank does not change, we will change the bank", which set off a wind of mobile payment, making the bank lower its "noble head". Wallets filled with cash and bank cards have become a thing of the past, and even largely stimulated the domestic consumption fever.
Nowadays, from supermarkets to wet markets, from squares to night market stalls, from hospital registration offices to subway ticket offices, it only takes a simple smartphone and a mobile payment method to achieve this. The lifestyle has been greatly changed, and there is even a very exaggerated joke: if the mobile payment is down for 3 minutes, the life of the Chinese people may be directly stopped.
The second is the ant forest. In 2016, Ma Yun responded to the call to support energy conservation and emission reduction, and launched the "Ant Forest" public welfare project. As long as you secretly energize and water, you can plant an exclusive green plant in Alashan, where the problem of desertification is most prominent on the mainland. Guide the public to live a low-carbon life, walk instead of driving, pay fees online, etc., so as to obtain energy values in the ant forest. As soon as the project was launched, it attracted the attention of a large number of people, and it became a daily routine for most people to open their mobile phones to water and steal energy as soon as they woke up in the morning.
In 4 years, the cumulative number of users has exceeded 550 million, and the shuttle tree in the Ant No. 1 forest planted in 2016 has now grown to a height of 80cm. According to the "Ecological Assessment of Ant Afforestation Project": 223 million trees have been planted, the green area has reached 3.06 million mu, and the carbon emission has been reduced by 12 million tons.
Later, some people doubted the authenticity of the trees and whether they were just commercial fictitious heads, and the Ant Forest officially opened up the permissions of satellite cloud maps, and all the saplings planted were also equipped with numbers, and anyone could open the satellite cloud map at any time to view the scene of the tree area they planted.
The third is to successfully predict the next air outlet. In 2014, Ma Yun pointed out at the Entrepreneur Summit that the next richest man in China will definitely come from the field of health. At that time, real estate was in full swing, and it was even called the "first year of the post-development era" of China's real estate. Ma Yun's prediction was scorned by people at the time, but looking back now, I can't help but admire Lao Ma's long-term strategic vision. The "2012 Hurun Ranking" shows that Zhong Sui, who holds Wantai Biology, became the richest man in New China with a value of 650 billion yuan, and this year he became the richest man in new China, announcing the advent of a new era.
Even Li Chaoren, who has been the richest man on Hong Kong Island for 22 consecutive years, may not have the sharp vision of the old horse. In 2017, he "quietly" laid out the big health industry, investing $200 billion in an anti-aging company in Laomei.
Not only China's richest man, but even the world's richest man, Bezos, has also embarked on great health. He invested $25 million earlier this year to set up Altos Labs, which specializes in cells, to try to extend the healthy lifespan of humans by 50 years. Under such a storm, the future does not know how many super-rich people will be spawned.
The times are changing, and Ma Yun once "showed his fists and feet" in the torrent of the times, but now he seems to have a heart of retreat. In addition to the share reduction, Lao Ma has already opened the "buy, buy buy" mode. Hong Kong bought 150 million luxury homes, New York bought 113 flats of Brandon Park, and France bought three wineries.
In the future, it is not known whether he will make a comeback and trigger a larger economic wave.