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Wen 丨 Xiaoyu Begonia
Editor丨Xiaoyu Begonia
Recently, Ma Yun, who has been silent for a long time, appeared on the podium of the University of Tokyo in Japan, which has attracted countless attention and heated discussions among netizens.
Many people accused him of being ungrateful, who had previously siphoned off a lot of money in China, and then turned around and went to Japan to teach, never seeing him so insistent on being a teacher when he was in China.
But some people also find it strange, only heard that rich people are busy running to Europe and the United States, why did Ma Yun choose Japan?
This choice actually has a deep meaning behind it. The 59-year-old Jack Ma proved to the world that despite announcing his retirement, he has embarked on another path in life.
Jack Ma once famously said: not interested in money, never touched money.
This made Sabine, who was professional next to him, couldn't help but laugh, and almost laughed in front of the camera.
Although he said so, what Ma Yun did was not to make money. It is also because of his pursuit of money and fame that he once had the nickname "Ma Daddy" fell off the altar.
In 2014, the module of Ant Financial appeared in Alipay, which brings convenience to thousands of households.
At this time, Ant Financial also shouted the slogan of "solving the trust problem for the society", and convenient microloans have indeed solved the urgent needs of countless people.
In just one year, Ant Financial has the qualification to go public, with nearly 900 million users worldwide.
Jack Ma very decisively chose to go public and fight for a broader development space for it. But any choice has risks, not to mention that Ant Financial, as a financial enterprise, is still so large, a slight carelessness will have a huge impact on the economy.
Moreover, the loans issued by Ant Financial are not fully funded by itself, but are shared by many companies and it, so that with only 40 billion principal, it can issue up to 2 trillion loans.
No one can guarantee that these loans can be executed normally without default, so Ma's inflated ambitions eventually attracted national sanctions.
If the failure of this listing has little impact on most of Ant Financial's users, then his hand extended to the national "vegetable basket" still allows everyone to see the face of Jack Ma's capitalist.
When community group buying was pushed to the front by Alibaba, everyone was attracted by its cheap and convenient price, not only transparent prices, but also delivery to the nearest home, without having to go to the vegetable market to choose.
However, the development of follow-up community group buying is almost the same as that of e-commerce platforms.
The hot development of group buying has attracted many merchants to settle in, and users have enjoyed the service without fake, but the fresh market has experienced an unprecedented depression, and the business of the mall has not been as good as before after online shopping has become bigger and bigger.
The goods laid out by vegetable farmers are not cared for, so they can only tearfully reduce prices or join group buying platforms. Because of this, the group buying platform has slowly gained a monopoly posture.
That's why the People's Daily shouted to Ma Yun, don't stare at the national vegetable basket, strength should still develop to science and technology.
The fate of the official media made Ma Yun aware of the national red line and slowly left the public eye. His reputation was not as good as before, and the once praised "horse daddy" still failed to resist the profit-seeking nature of businessmen.
After leaving Vanity Fair, Ma recalled his dream of being a teacher.
Although he has become a successful person and has achieved unmatched results, Ma Yun's road has been very bumpy.
Young Ma Yun is very naughty, not good at school, not only did not get good results in the high school entrance examination, but also failed the college entrance examination three times because of poor mathematics, but fortunately, his English level was quite excellent, and finally he was admitted to Hangzhou Normal University.
Ma Yun, who went to university, collected his heart, immersed himself in serious study, and actively participated in various activities of the school. His activity in the community laid the foundation for his future eloquence and organizational skills.
After graduating from university, Ma became a teacher. The salary is not much, but Ma Yun likes teaching and educating people very much, and has also been commended by outstanding young teachers in Hangzhou.
Even if he later became famous and had hundreds of millions of family generations, Ma Yun would still confess in front of the camera that his most satisfying time was when he became a teacher with a salary of 90 yuan a month.
If it is not found that the Internet industry has embarked on the road of entrepreneurship, I think Ma Yun will work in the education industry all his life and water the countless students.
However, in 1955, Ma resolutely resigned, borrowed a sum of money from his family, and devoted himself to this field that had not yet begun to develop in China.
He did his best to publicize his ambitions, but at that time the Internet was not known to the Chinese people, and many people listened to his lobbying and thought he was crazy, and even regarded him as a liar.
Ma persevered and founded a website called the China Yellow Pages, which aims to promote China's various industries and customs to foreigners.
We can see the effort that Jack Ma put into it from the various pages of this website, but the Internet was not yet widely available in China at that time, so it did not receive much feedback.
In the end, Ma Yun also had a cooperation dispute with Hangzhou Telecom, and gave up this project that he was very optimistic about with regret, and experienced the first failure of entrepreneurship.
However, there is an old saying that there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and just when Ma Yun was worried about the future, the China International Electronic Commerce Center threw an olive branch to him.
Ma Yun's early eloquence played a role at this time, and he did the company's work well and won the favor of his superiors. However, Ma Yun hesitated again and again, but chose to leave the company and try to start a business again.
This venture allowed Ma Yun to push the door to his legendary life. He brought back his original entrepreneurial companions, impressed them with an impassioned speech, slept with them, and marched hand in hand towards a glorious future.
In April 1999, they came up with Alibaba's achievement. It did not disappear silently like the Chinese Yellow Pages, but attracted countless injections of capital and made Ma Yun.
We can see Ma Yun's wish for it in the name "Alibaba", hoping that Alibaba can become a key to managing wealth.
Over the next decade, Alibaba grew rapidly and became an influential Internet company in the world, launching Alipay and Taobao, one changing people's payment habits, and the other having a profound impact on shopping methods.
However, Ma Yun did not want to be limited to business, and he also appeared on the big screen, starring in the movie "Gong Shou Dao", and starred with superstars such as Donnie Yen and Wu Jing.
But his first appearance on television dates back to 1995.
In a program on Hangzhou TV, the program team arranged to pry the manhole cover off the road, hoping to see if anyone would say anything to stop it and maintain road safety.
As a result, there were waves of pedestrians in the past, and even if someone paid attention to them, no one came up to interfere, and they all felt that more was better than less.
In the end, Ma Yun rode his bicycle into the camera, completely unafraid of the deterrent of the other party's strong body, and pointed to let them put the manhole cover back.
In the interview, Ma Yun said that he originally wanted to find the police, but he ran back and forth four times but did not find it, and did not see that others planned to care, but chose to go on his own.
Jack Ma's enthusiasm also made him contribute a lot to charity later.
Various disaster donations have become commonplace, Ma Yun ingeniously launched the ant forest in Alipay, users as long as low-carbon travel can get energy, use energy to plant electronic trees, after growing up ant forest will really plant a tree on the earth.
There is a number board hanging on the tree, and users can see the number of their own tree in the ant forest interface, and find the tree they have compared to it.
In addition to Ant Forest, there is also an Ant Manor section, where users can raise chickens as long as they pay with software, and the eggs laid by chickens can be used to help people with difficult lives.
Yang Hongyan, a girl in the mountains, got Ma Yun's attention from this path, and finally fulfilled her college dream.
Although these two sectors do not occupy a large area in Alipay, many people will ignore them, but they still extend a helping hand to society and make their own efforts.
Although Jack Ma is the founder of Alibaba, he has no shelves in life, and he is very enthusiastic about Chinese kung fu and jianghu culture.
He asked the company's employees to use the alias of martial arts style at work, and he had to be a decent character, he himself called "Feng Qingyang", the office was named "Peach Blossom Dock", and even the bathroom was called "Listen to Yuxuan".
When attending the event, Ma Yun also tried to avoid wearing serious formal clothes, and his clothes should be somewhat Chinese culture, and the buttons were mostly Chinese-style buckles. Although there is a lot of controversy about him, Ma Yun has always been informal, sticking to his heart.
Being a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo in Japan was his choice to embrace his educational feelings. Chinese education focuses on theory, practice tends to let students explore on their own, Ma Yun's sufficient practical experience in China, but it is difficult to teach students.
Regardless of what others think of him, Ma retired to live a freewheeling life, choosing to take off the aura of Alibaba's founder and be himself.
Although he is more than half a hundred years old, Ma Yun continues to move forward and embark on another road of life.