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Some time ago, the 2020 Hurun Global Rich List was freshly released.
Ma Yun and his family wealth ranked first in China with 315 billion yuan, once again topping China's richest man!
Speaking of Ma Yun, the first thing that comes to mind must be the e-commerce empire he created. But in the history of China's e-commerce, the first person to reach the top is not Ma Yun.
In an interview with Fortune Life, Ma Yun once commented on a person:
"He's a prodigy, that is to say, a genius, especially in the Internet e-commerce area, I just stepped on the shoulders of geniuses to have today's success."
This "he" that Ma Yun said was so jealous of was no one else, it was Shao Yibo.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >01 "prodigy" Shao Yibo</h1>
Shao Yibo was born in Shanghai in 1973 to a family of teachers.
His father was a middle school math teacher, and when Shao Yibo was three years old, his father began to expose him to mathematics-related content.
While other children were still bouncing around, Shao Yibo learned linear algebra and calculus in less than two years, at the age of 5.
Since then, he has been dubbed a "child prodigy".
Shao Yibo's family
And he really did not disappoint, before middle school, Shao Yibo won the first prize of the National Mathematics Competition more than ten times.
When Shao Yibo was 11 years old, he won the gold medal in the first "Hua Luogeng Gold Cup" junior mathematics competition, which can be described as a world war of fame.
In the first year of high school, Shao Yibo was favored by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and got the admission letter of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, but he gave up this opportunity that others dreamed of and went straight to university.
The people around him did not understand, but only Shao Yibo himself knew that his ideals were far more than that.
A year later, when Shao Yibo was in his sophomore year of high school, he successfully won a full scholarship to Harvard University, you know, this is the first person in China to study at Harvard with a full scholarship.
Later, he said: "When I applied to Harvard in 1990, my classmates and teachers thought it was impossible. "
If it's not possible, be the first person.
Shao Yibo's life is always composing such a legend.
After receiving a full scholarship from Harvard, Shao Yibo jumped to the United States to study, and in college, he took both physics and electronics courses.
While studying at Harvard, he was attracted to two world-renowned consulting firms, McKinsey and Boston.
The two companies tried their best to get him on the job.
In the end, Shao Yibo chose Boston, because Boston sent the company's human resources director to squat downstairs in his dormitory for him, squatting for several days and nights, and Shao Yibo was finally impressed by their sincerity.
After entering Boston, Shao Yibo lived up to expectations and spent two years to become the "best employee" unanimously recognized by senior celebrants, and even broke the racial discrimination of Americans against foreigners at that time.
At this time, Shao Yibo's annual salary has reached 200,000 US dollars.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >02 "Harvard Scholar" meets "Little Witch of English"</h1>
Shao Yibo's career development in the United States is in the ascendant, and his love is also quietly sprouting.
Shao Yibo and his wife Bao Jiaxin met on the Harvard campus.
If Shao Yibo is a "child prodigy", then Bao Jiaxin is definitely a "school bully" without compromise.
In 1995, Bao Jiaxin's GMAT (Graduate Management Science Entrance Examination) score broke the world record with 780 points, and in the same year, the TOEFL score of 660 points, which became the highest score in Taiwan at that time.
After graduating from the Department of Pharmacy at National Taiwan University, Bao Jiaxin received a scholarship from Harvard to study at Harvard.
When she was a student at Harvard, she wrote books such as "English Little Witch" and "English Little Witch in Harvard", which was also named "English Little Witch".
When the integrity of youth is young, and it is the green campus, which young boy and girl are not pregnant?
In 1998, Bao Jiaxin attended the Harvard Business School Society's annual Asian Business Symposium, and Shao Yibo sat right next to her.
The first time Shao Yibo saw Bao Jiaxin, he fell in love with this beautiful and intelligent girl, saying that he was "head over heels" to Bao Jiaxin.
However, at that time, Bao Jiaxin's evaluation of Shao Yibo was not high, and the prodigy who had been praised by people was a bit noisy and cool in Bao Jiaxin's view.
The next day, Shao Yibo sent an anonymous email to Bao Jiaxin expressing his admiration and attaching a love poem by Byron to the email.
At that time, Bao Jiaxin had a boyfriend, Shao Yibo also had a girlfriend, the two explained it when they first met, so Bao Jiaxin also thought that someone else had sent the wrong email, and turned around and deleted it.
Shao Yibo knew that Bao Jiaxin liked food, so he took her to eat a lot of food.
Bao Jiaxin could not resist the temptation of food, and felt that she would have to return to Taiwan in a few months, so she regarded the two of them as a "short sexual encounter" and did not expect to blossom and bear fruit.
But Shao Yibo liked her too much and proposed to break up with his girlfriend, and in the process of getting along, Bao Jiaxin also re-acquainted with Shao Yibo and fell deeply in love with him.
After all, the two of them still stepped through the world and hugged each other tightly.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >03 for beauty, three times gave up career</h1>
As Bao Jiaxin thought, a few months later, she and Shao Yibo completed their Studies at Harvard.
Bao Jiaxin wants to return to Taiwan to work, and at this time Shao Yibo's career in the United States is doing very well.
On the one hand is the girlfriend who is in love, on the other side is a stable and good job, which one must give up the other.
Shao Yibo did not hesitate, followed in his wife's footsteps, and returned to Shanghai to start a business, only because geographically, the mainland is much closer to Taiwan.
In August 1999, 26-year-old Shao Yibo founded eBay in Shanghai, China's first C2C e-commerce platform.
After this, Shao Yibo and Bao Jiaxin began a long-distance relationship, one in Taiwan and one in Shanghai, which was really difficult for them.
In addition to Shao Yibo's entrepreneurship, the two people can only rely on phone calls to solve their lovesickness, they have to call two or three hours a day, and the cost of mobile phone calls alone is more than $1,000 per month.
In addition to the pain of lovesickness in a different place, the opposition of Bao Jiaxin's parents is even more difficult for them.
At first, Bao Jiaxin's parents were very opposed to their being together, and exaggerated that Shao Yibo was a "spy on the mainland."
But fortunately, the two are very persistent, and after Shao Yibo's unremitting efforts, Bao Jiaxin's parents are finally touched by his sincerity.
After the two fell in love for three years, Shao Yibo proposed to Bao Jiaxin, and the two successfully entered the palace of marriage, and finally ended this long-distance life.
The road of feelings is smooth, and Shao Yibo's career path is also developing very well.
eBay grew rapidly under the leadership of Shao Yibo, and by 2000, the number of registered users reached 3 million, while there were less than 30 million online users in China at that time, and eBay once occupied 80% of the domestic e-commerce brand market.
Shao Yibo is a well-deserved young man, and everyone thinks that for a long time in the future, this young man will lead the e-commerce industry forward.
In 2003, eBay, founded by Shao Yibo, became a giant in China's e-commerce industry, reaching the point where rival platforms could only look up to.
At this time, Shao Yibo made a surprising move, he sold eBay to eBay for $225 million.
It turned out that at the beginning of this year, the father of his wife Bao Jiaxin died of illness, and Bao Jiaxin was heartbroken, because she did not want to touch the scene, she decided to leave China with her father's coffin and go to the United States to live.
At this time, Bao Jiaxin was already pregnant, and Shao Yibo was really uneasy about letting his sad wife leave alone, so he sold the company he had worked hard to create and accompanied his wife to the United States.
Ma Yun said: "If it were not for his love for his wife too much and choosing to leave, China's e-commerce is definitely Shao Yibo's personal jianghu." "
It can be seen that Shao Yibo gave up not only a career for his wife, but also a large area of the e-commerce industry.
For several years after selling eBay, Shao Yibo accompanied his wife and was at ease to be a grandfather.
Shao Yibo said: "Wrap diapers at home and strive to maintain the image of a good man in Shanghai. "
Although it is a tedious little thing, he can't hide the sweetness of happiness in his words.
In order to have more time to spend with his wife and children, he also just took the money from the sale of eBay to do some venture capital.
But as his wife Bao Jiaxin gradually walked out of the shadow of losing her father, she hoped that her husband could regain the spirit of his previous entrepreneurial work.
Bao Jiaxin said to Shao Yibo: "Let's go back to China to start a business." "
This time, Shao Yibo also followed his wife's advice without hesitation.
In 2006, he gave up his venture capital career in the United States and returned to China to start BabyTree with his friend Wang Huainan.
Ma Yun once said: "Shao Yibo's biggest shortcoming is that he loves his wife too much. "
But Shao Yibo said, "My best luck in my life is to meet my wife." "
Because he loves his wife, Shao Yibo "gave up" three times in his career, but he was willing to do so.
In ancient times, there were Zhou Youwang Beacon Fire Princes, only to laugh for Bo, and later lost the Jiangshan for this.
Now Shao Yibo has given up his career three times for his beloved wife, and he is willing to give it to people in the e-commerce industry.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >04 How is he doing today? </h1>
Today, Shao Yibo is still a leader in society, serving as the founding partner of Matrix Partners China, investing in some well-known projects such as BabyTree and Liepin.
In an interview, Shao Yibo also revealed:
Finding an investment is similar to getting married, and many times it is not necessary for one investor to be suitable for all entrepreneurs.
A lot of times we're not looking at a company, but at the people you talk to in startups, maybe the two or three founders who give you a good feeling and decide to invest.
In the family, Shao Yibo often said to his son, you go to find a few more girlfriends, and when you get married, you will know what kind of girl you like.
Don't meet the first girlfriend to get married, the possibility of making a wrong decision will be great, know what kind of person you like, in order to make better decisions, of course, don't promiscuity, the same is true for finding investment.
He always stressed that things outside the body were not as important as the family. For his wife to quit the e-commerce jianghu, many people are not worth it for him.
Although his legend was written into the history of the e-commerce industry, how could the scenery at that time be compared today?
Shao Yibo said more than once:
"Commercial success is not real success, I admire people who have a very happy family and a very happy life. Family is the most important thing, except family, there is nothing worth me giving up everything to do. "
Today, Shao Yibo is not confused, with three lovely children under his knees, and his beloved wife by his side, he is already very satisfied.
"Golden Age" said: In this life, there are very few things that people can choose, they can't choose how to live, and they can't choose how to die, there are only two things we can choose, how to love in this life, how to live in this life.
Shao Yibo lived freely and at will.
In the balance of career and family, he has always been biased towards family, but he never regrets it, which is his choice to follow his heart.
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