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What kind of woman Zhang Ying is

author:Gao Baoyi

Unlike Ma Yun's household name, Zhang Ying's name may be unknown to nine out of ten people. However, judging from some media reports, in Ma Yun's career empire, Zhang Ying's role is pivotal.

Public information shows that Zhang Ying is a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang, is a younger sister than Ma Yun, the two began to fall in love when they were in school, and after Zhang Ying graduated, the two married.

When she was young, Zhang Ying was very beautiful, and she said that Ma Yun was not a handsome man, but what she liked was that he could do many things that handsome men could not do.

Zhang Ying and Ma Yun, after both graduated, became teachers at the Hangzhou Institute of Electronics Industry. But Ma has been looking for entrepreneurial opportunities. He found that in Hangzhou, there are many foreign trade companies that need a large number of full-time and part-time translators, but at that time, There was no institution in Hangzhou that provided translators, and Ma Yun felt that this was an opportunity, so he established Haibo Translation Agency in 1992.

In 1995, Ma Yun went to Seattle, the United States, when not many people in China knew about the Internet, but Ma Yun judged that the Internet was promising in China.

Subsequently, Ma Yun resigned from the Hangzhou Institute of Electronics Industry, and pulled 24 classmates to his home to talk about the future of the Internet, but everyone expressed doubts and advised him to give up, and finally only two people supported him, one was He Yibing, and the other was Zhang Ying.

In order to help Ma Yun start a business in the Internet industry, Zhang Ying took out all her savings of 6,000 yuan, and also became a seller and borrowed money from relatives, and collected 80,000 yuan for Ma Yun, and Ma Yun himself made up 20,000 yuan.

In April 1995, Hangzhou Haibo Computer Service Co., Ltd., China's first Internet commercial company, was established, and its main business was to do China Yellow Pages and help enterprises do online publicity. The company has only three employees, Ma Yun, Zhang Ying and he Yibing.

At the beginning, many people regarded Ma Yun as a liar, just when Zhang Ying negotiated a large order of 8,000 yuan, the company had a little improvement, in March 1996, Hangzhou Telecom also made a Chinese Yellow Page, directly with Ma Yun to seize the market. Faced with a formidable rival, Ma Yun decided to merge with the other side, and Ma Yun's China Yellow Pages accounted for 30% of the shares at a price of 600,000 yuan.

In 1998, Ma Yun wanted to do e-commerce, he told Zhang Ying about this idea, and persuaded Zhang Ying to quit her university job.

In Alibaba, Zhang Ying's work number was Number 02, which was also one of the Eighteen Arhats of Alibaba that he later became known as Alibaba. When the company was founded, whenever Ma Yun had any new ideas, he would call everyone to a meeting in his home, and Zhang Ying would cook for everyone. Before the company made a profit, each person only had a salary of 500 yuan per month, which was not enough to even buy vegetables, Zhang Ying once laughed at herself, originally the teacher was good, how did she become an old mother who posted food expenses upside down?

After Ali was on the right track, Zhang Ying became the general manager of the company's China business unit. In May 2003, Ma Yun founded Taobao. A year later, Ma Yun founded a third-party online payment platform Alipay.

In 2004, Zhang Ying chose to resign and return home.

Choose between sons and money

Because the husband and wife are busy starting a business and neglecting the education and companionship of their children, his son Ma Yuankun is fascinated by online games, often soaking in Internet cafes, and his academic performance has declined all the way.

Ma Yun realized that he and Zhang Ying must have someone to accompany the child. He said to Zhang Ying: The family needs you more than Alibaba now. You leave Ali, what you have is only a salary, but if you don't go home, your son will become bad in the future, and you can't get back how much money you have. Ma Yun asked his wife to choose between her son and Money. Zhang Ying chose her son, resigned as the general manager of Alibaba's China business unit, and became a full-time mother.

Every morning, Zhang Ying and her son eat breakfast together and then drive him to school. Then, go to the market to buy vegetables, go home to cook, two meats and one vegetarian soup, and then accompany the fruit after the meal, pack it in a food box, and then go to the door of my son's school to wait for him to finish school at noon. Zhang Ying quit Ali, but her son's grades did improve, and his popularity in the class also improved.

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