Lately everyone has been immersed in the happy "National Day" holiday! But some media outlets already have a rhythm of work.
Today, there are media reports that Ma Yun has been removed from the list of board members. Alibaba's Board of Directors now includes Directors Daniel Zhang (Chairman of the Board), Chongxin Tsai, Wei Wu, J. Michael Evans, Jing Xiandong and Kabir Misra, and independent directors Tung Chee-hwa, Kwok Tak Ming, Jerry Yang, E. Börje Ekholm and Wan Ling Martello.
And today we will focus on 3 men who have a great impact on Ma Yun's career. What help did they give Ma Yun?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Jack Ma's first nobleman, Yahoo Yang</h1>
When it comes to the current Internet boss, everyone must think of Ma Yun Ma Huateng. But in the early days of the American Internet, an entrepreneur named Jerry Yang successfully led the wave of the Internet.
Born in 1968, 4 years younger than Jack Ma, this person is a Chinese American, yang is a doctoral student at Stanford. In 1994, before finishing his Ph.D., he started a business called Yahoo.
At that time, Yahoo was the largest portal news site in the United States, and the domestic one was Sina Sohu. At that time, the portal had a very high gold content!
When Yang became famous, Ma Yun was still figuring out ways to finance Alibaba. Although Yang Zhiyuan did not invest in Ali in the early days, he still introduced a lot of contacts to Ma Yun. In 2005, Yahoo announced that it would buy a 35 percent stake in Alibaba for $1 billion, while giving Yahoo China a dowry to Jack Ma.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Jack Ma's second nobleman, Cai Chongxin</h1>
How did Ma Yun know Cai Chongxin? In fact, it is the line that Yahoo Yang Jerry pulled in it.
At that time, Ma Yun was still an unknown entrepreneur, but Cai Chongxin received an annual salary of millions of dollars in investment banks in the United States. In The words of Ma Yun, when Cai Chongxin wanted to join Ali, Ma Yun himself was shocked. Ma Yun also asked Tsai Chongxin to go back and think about it, but Tsai Chongxin firmly said that this was the team he wanted to join.
Later, Cai Chongxin joined Ali, responsible for Ali's finances and assisting Ali's strategy! To put it bluntly, Alibaba can have today, Cai Chongxin is the first major contributor! It is no wonder that among Ali's lifelong partners, only Ma Yun and Cai Chongxin are on the list!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Jack Ma's third nobleman, Sun Zhengyi</h1>
Your friends, and then introduce you to friends, this is the real friend. Yang Introduced Cai Chongxin to Ma Yun, and Cai Chongxin introduced Sun Zhengyi to Ma Yun.
At that time, Ma Yun met Sun Zhengyi in Japan, the two sides only talked for only 6 minutes, Sun Zhengyi wanted to invest in Ma Yun, and the first offer was 40 million US dollars, but in the end Ma Yun only took 20 million US dollars. It was Son Zhengyi's investment that allowed Alibaba's B2B and later Taobao to solve the financial troubles. At that time, Ali officially had the signs of a giant company!
So, as the old saying goes. If you want to mix well in the jianghu, you must have connections. The key is that you have to do it, and your connections can do it, so that the two sides can combine to make things bigger.
I have to say that although Ma Yun is very difficult on the road to entrepreneurship, with the help of these 3 people, Ma Yun is actually much luckier than other entrepreneurs! I don't know what you think?