I will go to a movie every week, and I just finished the hit TV series "Three Lives and Three Worlds and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms", can you imagine that this is what a 44-year-old uncle does? Not for entertainment, but to know what young people like today. He has experienced many cross-industry entrepreneurships and achieved good results. Today, he set off again, and the company set off from Chongqing under the name of "Sha Shidi" to start his "road of learning the scriptures". What he wants to do is the didi taxi in the freight industry.
Wang Zhi
After working for half a year, he became the vice president
Or do it yourself
"Some people are born with the blood of entrepreneurs in their bones", such as Wang Zhi.
From the "advertising decoration industry" to the technology company mainly engaged in the "global satellite positioning system", and then to the "Shashidi Freight Cloud Business", in the experience of more than ten years of entrepreneurship, Wang Zhi has completed three consecutive entrepreneurships with a huge span. In the eyes of the outside world, such a "toss" seems a bit strange, but he himself is not surprised, "I just like the challenge."
In 1996, Wang Zhi graduated from a major institute and joined the work in Yichang, becoming the first batch of Three Gorges project builders. Coming from an engineering class, but being assigned to manage safety work, the young and vigorous Wang Zhi felt that he was obviously underused by oversized. Not long after, he resolutely resigned and planned to return to Chongqing to work.
In the 1990s, the construction industry developed rapidly, and it was thought that it would be easy to leave state-owned enterprises and find relevant jobs outside. Under the wrong circumstances, Wang Zhi never met a suitable construction company, and eventually went to work at an advertising decoration company.
With his intelligence and understanding, Wang Zhi quickly became at ease in the new industry: from an ordinary employee to a department head in three months, and became the deputy general manager of the company half a year later. "I became the vice president, and there can be no higher development. At that time, I was still very young and should go out and break in, so I thought of starting my own business. ”
In 1998, Wang Zhi returned to his hometown of Tongliang and opened his own advertising decoration company. "At that time, the business was relatively smooth, and I dug my first pot of gold in the advertising decoration industry." But at the same time, Wang Zhi also has his own thinking about this industry: most of them rely on public relations and connections, lack of technical content, is this suitable for their own development? He secretly decided: we must find a technical industry to do.
In 2004, Wang Zhi came to Chongqing from Tongliang and started his second business. He set up Derui Technology, focusing on global satellite positioning systems, and did not immediately shut down the advertising agency in Tongliang, but instead invested the advertising company's income into the new company. In the face of a huge entrepreneurial span, Wang Zhi was prepared for early investment and loss at the beginning. From 2004 to 2008, the new company lost money for 5 years.
In 2008, the entire industry showed a spurt of development, and Derui Technology not only reached breakeven, but also made a lot of extra money. At this time, Wang Zhicai sold the advertising company of Tongliang and devoted himself to the field of global satellite positioning systems.
Man has no far-sighted worries, but will have near-term worries. When everything turned good, Wang Zhi's sense of distress began to work again. "I consider the problems of this industry: product homogenization, equipment does not sell, service fees fall again and again." At that time, the concept of "transformation and upgrading" was very popular, and Wang Zhi began to consider how his company would transform and upgrade.
Beginning in 2014, the government mandated that trucks need to be equipped with positioning systems. There is already a vehicle source foundation in hand, and now it has found a source of goods, and the "Internet + logistics" platform after transformation and upgrading has been built along the trend. Wang Zhi's third venture, "Sha Shidi Freight Cloud Business", also began here.
"Seventh in the nation" is just the beginning
He wants to be the leader in the industry
Speaking of the ancestors of the logistics industry, the Sha Shidi team first thought of the obscure Sha Shidi in "Journey to the West". His pragmatic and unswerving spirit has also been recognized by Wang Zhi.
After long-term research and testing, the Shashidi team has developed the country's first and only truck-specific navigation in the industry, the Shashidi Truck-specific Navigation, and provides it to more than 30 million truck drivers for free for life. At the same time, it also developed the first mobile version of the capacity management tool - Shashidi Capacity Manager, which is provided to cargo owners and logistics enterprises for free for life, naturally included in the source of goods, providing more value for truck drivers, and finally establishing more than 30 million truck drivers big data to create a freight cloud business platform.
Wang Zhi stressed that Sha Shidi is a project that benefits the country and the people. The platform meets the core interests and needs of truck drivers, cargo owners and logistics enterprises, and is committed to solving the problems of eating, living, traveling, repairing, car and cargo matching, insurance, finance and other problems in the professional life cycle of truck drivers, realizing accurate docking between truck drivers, cargo owners and logistics enterprises, reducing logistics costs and improving logistics efficiency. The reduction of the empty driving rate of trucks has further improved the adhesion between truck owners and cargo owners, and also increased the income of related employees. "Sha Shidi is simply a freight version of Didi Taxi."
The project mainly adopts the business model of b2b2c, that is, by providing information on the platform, helping traditional logistics enterprises such as freight forwarders, distribution stations, logistics companies, intermediaries, as well as individual cargo owners or car owners, to provide them with logistics services, value-added services, insurance and financial services, and take this as the starting point to focus on the development of products, cut into the special navigation of trucks, so as to attract truck owners, establish big data and transform the value behind big data. Through the construction of the freight cloud business platform, in the future, Sha Shidi will be involved in logistics services, value-added services, insurance and financial services.
From the beginning of his business, Sha Shidi was positioned as a "project to the whole country". At the end of last year, after the official launch of the Shashidi logistics trading platform, the transaction volume exceeded 10 million in December, and this year's team has full confidence to make the transaction volume exceed 1 billion. At present, there are more than 600,000 Shashidi app users, and the goal by the end of this year is to exceed 2 million. In the 2016 social survey of Logistics Times Weekly, Sha Shidi ranked seventh in the industry.
The large screen of the company's digital display center shows the real-time information of the national vehicle source and the source of goods.
"We are very firm in the 'Internet + logistics' pattern, the absolute hegemony of this industry has not yet been formed in the true sense, and everyone still has a chance." Although people are running ahead of us now, they are not necessarily the final champions. Speaking of industry trends and development, Wang Zhi said that Sha Shidi is confident of becoming the future hegemon of the industry.
At present, the promotion of Sha Shidi adopts the mode of combining online and offline. "Online, we have a huge promotion team; offline, we are also looking for strategic partners across the country."
Spend more than 2 million yuan on further study
He was as willing as he was to find it worth it
Throw yourself into your work, get tired of doing the work, like to do challenging things... Unlike ordinary people who encounter difficulties and go around, Wang Zhi prefers to face difficulties and become more courageous the more frustrated. Such a personality also made him destined to become an entrepreneur.
In the more than ten years of entrepreneurship, Wang Zhi has become more stable and mature. In addition to his bold entrepreneurial style, "long-term study" in his busy work is the magic weapon for him to maintain his advanced nature.
At present, he is studying in the finance class of Tsinghua University, and flying to Beijing on weekends has become a routine. "Once when the plane was late, when I arrived at Tsinghua University, it was already 5 a.m., and then I started classes directly. It was a little hard, but I was born as a rural child with tenacious perseverance. Now I work more than 12 hours a day, and I still feel that I don't have enough time. ”
The farthest study, Wang Zhi went to Boston University in the United States. In his view, continuous learning is the most powerful blood. In a few years, the cost of study alone was more than 2 million, but he himself felt that it was worth it. "Through study and training, I can maintain the advanced nature of the times and not let myself fall behind."
In Wang Zhi's view, Internet thinking requires how people can expand rapidly, make it more efficient, more systematic, and standardized, and should not be bounded by age. "It is not necessarily that the post-80s and post-90s must have Internet thinking, and we are not short of Internet thinking after 70."
Summarizing years of entrepreneurial experience, Wang Zhi also shared his feelings:
First, starting a business requires cost control. Second, entrepreneurship is a spirit that needs to be adhered to.
"When I was struggling, the philosophy that stuck to me was the so-called 'leftovers are king'. As long as you let yourself survive, you have already succeeded, and you have more opportunities. ”
The second venture has been losing money for the first five years, and Wang Zhi thinks it is the most difficult time.
In hesitation, he still chose to insist. "I am not worse than others, since I have done a very hard job, I believe that others will not do it very easily, then we will fight for endurance." When I was in debt, I sold out of my house and car. Entrepreneurship is very difficult, in addition to using superhuman courage, but also have tenacity and perseverance. ”
In his circle of friends, he will also "show affection", full of affection for his wife, and his daughter's academic achievements will also make him proud like an ordinary father.
On March 23, CCTV's "Entrepreneurial Heroes" landed in Chongqing for the first time. After learning of this news, Master Sha successfully registered online for the first time. "I'm looking forward to it and hope that we can get good results from Master Sha."
Wang Zhi:
Chairman and CEO of Sha Shidi, Graduate Student of Economics and Business Administration of Chongqing University, Chairman of Chongqing Derui Technology (Group) Co., Ltd., a leader in global satellite positioning system operation services and expert in Internet of Things vehicle management. He was elected as a deputy to the Fourth Chongqing Municipal People's Congress, a member of the Standing Committee of the Fourth Chongqing Youth Federation, and the secretary general of the science and technology sector of the Fourth Chongqing Youth Federation, and was awarded the title of "Top Ten Economic Figures Returning to His Hometown and Starting a Business" in Chongqing.
This article was written by the reporting team of the Chongqing Station of Entrepreneurial Heroes Hui
Exclusively released by Zhongchuang Pioneer Network