As a wife, when your husband wants to give up his job with an annual salary of one million yuan and devote himself to a career that can only get a salary of 500 yuan a month and the industry prospects are uncertain, what choice will you make?
In September, Tsai, who returned to the Internet industry to take the helm of Alibaba, faced the situation before he fought alongside Jack Ma.
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And his wife Wu Minghua said to Ma Yun: I know my husband is crazy, but I support him! How sure and trusting her husband's choice is.
This is on the basis of the couple's feelings, relying on the careful decision of personal vision, cognition, and knowledge, which is also her excellence, and she uses wisdom and responsibility to interpret what is a strong union and a balanced marriage.
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Wu Minghua's family background is prominent, and his grandfather Wu Sanlian is a Taiwanese bigwig-level figure who enjoys a high reputation in the industry. Founded Tainan Textile, one of the largest textile enterprises in Taiwan, China. Her father was a professor of economics at the University of Kansas.
Superior family environment, Wu Minghua received an elite education since he was a child, and he was also a famous scholar, and after graduating from Lawrence High School, a famous American school, he entered Stanford University.
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From her undergraduate to her master's degree, she served on several advisory boards, including the Stanford University Advisory Board and the Neuroscience Institute Advisory Board, where she directed university research institutions focused on interdisciplinary life sciences research.
After graduating, he joined American Express, a well-known credit card company, and was responsible for the development of Asian business in Hong Kong.
The Wu family and the Cai family belong to the world, the two have similar family backgrounds, educational backgrounds, in 1996, the like-minded couple came together because of the wedding ceremony held a wedding in New York's Park Avenue Christ Church.
When Tsai Chongxin decided to go to the United States for development, Wu Minghua chose to follow without hesitation and embarked on a new journey in life.
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During her time in the United States, although she transformed into a full-time housewife, she did not give up her studies and career. She is fluent in several languages, has taught at top universities in the United States, and has worked as a magazine editor.
Her husband, Joe Tsai, was the lead counsel of Rosecliff, Inc., a management buyout firm in New York, in the United States, and in 1999 he had the idea of joining Alibaba.
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At this time, Wu Minghua was just pregnant, and the couple came to Hangzhou to meet with Ma Yun, and visited Ali Company, which was still like a black Internet café at that time, and later the couple and Ma Yun rowed together on the West Lake.
Tsai Chongxin expressed to Ma Yun that he wanted to join Alibaba, and Ma Yun's reaction at that time was a big shock, he said: I can't afford such a high salary, I can only give you 500 yuan a month.
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And repeatedly persuaded him to think it through. You must know that Cai Chongxin's annual salary at that time was 5.8 million, and what made Ma Yun dispel his worries was Wu Minghua's next words.
Wu Minghua said to Ma Yun: I know that my husband is crazy, but I also know that if I don't agree with him joining you, he will never forgive me for the rest of his life, and I support him to come to you.
In this way, Tsai joined Alibaba Group, became one of the founders of the company, and established the Alibaba Group's Hong Kong headquarters as an advance force that year.
In the following years, as we can see, Alibaba's success changed the landscape of the Internet, and the couple's choice this time in exchange for a net worth of nearly 100 billion yuan.
Her husband has a successful career, and Wu Minghua is not bad. She founded the Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation, where she made several investments and played an important role in the areas of knowledge innovation, equal opportunity, and creative arts.
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For his contributions to the field of philanthropy, Wu Minghua was recognized in the 2021 Asia Pacific Charity Heroes List released by Forbes Asia in December 2021.
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As her husband turned his attention to sports, acquiring the NBA's Brooklyn Nets and the WNBA's New York Liberty, Wu Minghua played an active role.
Assisting her husband at a critical moment, before the Blue Nets player Owen refused to be injected with the new crown vaccine, Tsai Chongxin's attitude resolutely ordered him to suspend training and the suspension caused an uproar, resulting in many contradictions between the two sides.
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Wu Minghua stepped forward and effectively alleviated the situation to continue to develop negatively, and finally Owen shook hands with Tsai Chongxin, and she always stepped forward when her husband needed help the most.
Such things often happen in their lives, and she uses her wisdom and strength to make her husband get great support in his career and family.
The two have been married for 27 years and have two sons and a daughter, who are not only intimate lovers with similar interests, but also business partners who fight side by side.
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There is a sentence in "Jane Eyre": "Love is a game, and you must always be equal and evenly matched with each other in order to depend on each other for a long time."
Because an opponent who is too strong is tired, and an opponent who is too weak is tired. For women, maintaining the long-term stability of their marriage does not come from medical beauty, but from the balance of thought and ability.