In 1979, Wang Sicong, as the only son of Wang Jianlin, the head of Wanda Group, was born in this business family. As soon as he started, he stood at the pinnacle of the most glorious life, with the glory and wealth that countless people dream of.
Intelligence is inherited from his father, and Wang Sicong has performed extremely well since he was a child. It is not surprising that the British elite school has admitted this elite descendant. When Wang Sicong chose to study the seemingly unrealistic major of philosophy, his father Wang Jianlin did not object.
Because he knows his son's extraordinary wisdom and believes that he will be able to create his own career legend in the future.
If Wang Jianlin has any expectations for Wang Sicong, it is that he hopes that this only flesh and blood will pick up the burden of Wanda's merchant ship as soon as possible. As a father, Wang Jianlin must be both longing and uneasy in his heart.
He didn't know if his son would be able to take over the business empire created by his blood and water with ease after his son's return, so that Wanda could go further and more stable.
In 2009, 29-year-old Wang Sicong returned from abroad and was soon arranged by his father to join Wanda Group. However, the company's running was very different from the young man's philosophy.
Wang Sicong is busy socializing all day long, lingering in nightclubs and bars. I don't care about my work, and I don't care about the group's major affairs.
As a father, Wang Jianlin was extremely disappointed in his son's willful life. The business empire he founded with his own hands needs someone to inherit and carry forward, but Wang Sicong's arbitrariness makes Lao Wang Wang hopeless and hopeless.
Conflicts between father and son are inevitable, and Wang Jianlin also feels hopeless and helpless for this proud and arrogant son.
The ugliness of the family should not be publicized. In the end, Wang Jianlin decided to give his son a chance to prove himself. He proposed to let Wang Sicong start his own business, and if he achieved success, he could take over Wanda; Otherwise, they will be forced to return to the group and accept the arrangement.
So Lao Wang directly gave his son 500 million start-up funds, pushing his son to his own business baptism.
Wang Sicong, who got the start-up fund, did not squander it as the outside world imagined. Instead, he set up his own investment company and began to quietly gather sand in the business world.
While most people are still uninterested in the esports industry, Wang Sicong has been keenly aware of the huge business opportunities involved. He made a decisive acquisition of a team and has since launched his own esports legend.
In the following years, Wang Sicong invested heavily in the entertainment industry and real estate industry, and continued to invest to obtain huge returns. As a pioneer in esports, he has also profited a lot from it.
These successes soon turned Wang Sicong, who was not yet 30 years old, into a new business leader and was known as a "business wizard". For a while, he publicly stated that he wanted to surpass his father Wang Jianlin, which attracted the attention of the outside world.
Investing in "Wolf Warrior 2" alone has earned Wang Sicong a net of 500 million yuan, which has filled the entrepreneurial capital he obtained from Wang Jianlin. His innate ambition to invest in Rokko has enabled him to achieve a career in just a few years.
The outside world is also admired and jealous of this upstart. At this point, Wang Sicong finally proved that he was not a gentleman, but a dark horse in the commercial sea.
However, the business sea is unpredictable, and Wang Sicong's success did not last long. Since 2019, the companies he has invested in have lost money one after another, with accumulated debts of more than 2 billion yuan.
This huge loss cost Wang Sicong dearly, and he had to sell many assets in his name to fill the hole.
Just when the outside world was gloating and praised Wang Sicong's failure to start a business, his old father Wang Jianlin stood up again. He not only helped his son solve all his debts, but also gave him the support and funds to start a new business.
The father, who has always relied on him firmly, has become the backbone of Wang Sicong's voyage.
However, in the days that followed, Wang Sicong's entrepreneurial road was still quite long. After several years of stumbling, Wang Sicong, who has experienced countless experiences in the business world, had to choose to return to Wanda Group in 2022 and start to Xi how to run the family empire again.
Now, after nearly 2 years of experience in Wanda Group, Wang Sicong is no longer the gentleman who used to do his own thing and has no one in his eyes. At the end of 2023, when he had to stand at the signing site and officially sign the project with external partners on behalf of Wanda Group, there was no patience or bitterness on his face.
As the successor of the family business, Wang Sicong's shoulders at this moment are no longer his dreams or pride. He needs to learn to look at the long-term development and take responsibility for the sustainable growth of the group's profits.
When the older generation of Wang Jianlin officially abdicates, these hundreds of millions of family businesses will also completely fall on Wang Sicong's shoulders.
The turning point in life is often just a thought. From e-sports to the entertainment industry, Wang Sicong gave full play to his understanding of business, but in the end he was planted in this humble family business.
Years of changes have made Wang Sicong gradually mature and learn to play steadily. Now that he is living as he hates the most, the mixed joys and sorrows in his heart are only clear to himself.
We can only hope that he can carry forward and let Wanda go further.
Looking back, unconsciously, Wang Sicong has jumped from a talented young man who has just been admitted to a prestigious British school to a business legend who is the target of public criticism. At the turn of the peak, I had to let go of my pride and return to the family business.
The ups and downs of these 14 years are a microcosm of his life journey.
Wang Sicong is not a loser. On the contrary, his success is enough to go down in business legends. The large-scale acquisition of e-sports teams and the precise investment in the entertainment industry are all outstanding performances of this upstart investment in the market transformation.
Countless people all looked at his brilliant achievements and shouted "business wizard".
However, no success can be smooth sailing. After successive investment failures, Wang Sicong also understands the truth that everything is difficult to start. And the old father's indefatigability to him is the most solid backing in this turmoil.
It is precisely because of this network of relationships that Wang Sicong finally chose to return to the family business and accept the call of the family mission.
Unwilling to have, but there is still a way to go. In the past few years of Wang Sicong's time in Wanda, only he must understand the bitterness in his heart. We can only respect everyone's choice and wish him to go further and more steadily on this road in the future.
Regardless of his identity, he, like every dreamer, struggles forward on the rugged road.