"Wang Jian is a liar" and "Jack Ma 1 billion" are the labels on Wang Jian ten years ago, and it is not an exaggeration to call him the "drowning dog" that everyone shouts at!
The reason for this is also very simple, but because, in that year, he proposed to do cloud computing!
In 2009, Wang Jian founded Alibaba Cloud, with a team of 400 people and Ma Yun's annual R&D funds of 1 billion yuan, to start the research and development of cloud computing. It was the second year that Wang Jian joined Alibaba, and he knew the significance of self-research in science and technology to Ali's future, so when he saw Ma Yun, Wang Jian's first words were: "If Ali does not master technology, there will be no figure in the future." This sentence touched Ma Yun a lot, and it was also a question that Ma Yun was thinking about, so the two hit it off and decided on Ali's idea of technology.
Unfortunately, Ma Yun's support is there, and 1 billion funds are also in place, but Wang Jian's research is not smooth, several years have passed, billions have been spent, but there are no big results.
The ridicule from the outside world followed, and Ma Huateng said: "Cloud computing may be possible in hundreds or a thousand years, but it is still too early." Li Yanhong even said bluntly: "Cloud computing is new bottles of old wine, there is no new thing." ”
While the outside did not understand, internal pressure also followed, and many employees said that Wang Jian was in vain, and the purpose of coming to Ali was to cheat Ma Yun for money, and he was a liar. That time was Wang Jian's hardest day.
Fortunately, Ma Yun stood up and expressed support for Wang Jian, and also showed that Ali should adhere to the attitude of scientific research, and the opposition voice is much smaller, but if you want to shut up the outside world, you still have to speak with the results after all.
A few years later, Alibaba Cloud's self-developed domestic first cloud operating system "Feitian" came out, and perfectly withstood the problem of the huge data volume impact of Double 11 - Alibaba's self-developed cloud computing was really successful!
Subsequently, Alibaba Cloud came with good news in various fields, in terms of share, Alibaba Cloud became the first cloud service provider in the Asia-Pacific region and the third in the world, and in terms of application, it was used in 12306 and the Olympic Games, solving the problem of 12306 ticket purchase peak system lag, and successfully achieved the goal of Olympic cloud migration.
In 2019, Wang Jian was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering;
In 2020, Alibaba Cloud won two national awards, the National Technological Invention Award and the National Science and Technology Progress Award;
In 2023, Wang Jian was elected as a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference;
Today, no one dares to call him a "liar", and he has proved to the world that Chinese can engage in cloud computing, and Ali was right to insist on technology ten years ago.
Information expert Wu Jun once said: "The battle of computing power is the battle of national strength!" "And now, we also have the ability to compete in computing power!"