Almost all of China's commercial and technological media are bound to make headlines for it.

Tiger Sniff: Whether you like the company, this person, today, September 19, almost all of China's commercial and technological media are bound to make headlines for it.

Alibaba, Ma Yun.

15 Grind a sword. Industrial perspective, it is one of China's largest internet companies, the world's largest electric platform, capital, which is the history of the Internet from betting to become the most time-consuming, the largest capital risk.

The company, with its huge capital, is poised to take on an IPO that is likely to become the largest financing in the history of the world.

In the face of the commercial capitalist technology circle this eye-catching event, the media will be from their own perspective to report and interpretation. Today (September 19) 8:30, Tiger Sniff will be on the Weibo "tiger sniffing net" on the live broadcast of the three-person-related guests Ali IPO interview, and the exchange of attention to Alibaba in the NYSE IPO listing on the live, welcome to listen to the audience.

And before that, we set aside today's headline to give Mr Ma, the central figure of the IPO.

Tiger Sniff invited seven people in the past 15 years, objectively and precisely in the past 10 years (the reason why it is difficult to find a complete across Ali 15 media, alas, largely because of the media career, it is difficult to last so long or their ability to grasp the object of the report can not catch up with Ali's development footsteps) to Ali and Ma Yun have continued to pay attention to, did close interview with the media, they asked them to write down at the moment they to Ma Yun want to express some kind of view.

For information only.

Ma Yun is a complex, faceted, controversial figure. These seven paragraphs of text, these seven and Ma Yun only several sides, several conversations of the media, can not "help" you know a so-called real ma, they just from their contacts, from their point of view, said they feel. There is a famous saying in the circle, "Stand is the truth", you see what kind of Jack Ma, what kind of Ali, depends largely on what you would like to see Ma Yun, what kind of Ali.

The title said "with Ma Yun's ' seven-side margin '", is the imaginary point, refers to these seven authors different perspectives.

Controversy first and regardless, in the business speech business, now, now, 50-year-old Jack Ma, 15-year-old Alibaba, came to the peak of his career, is worth congratulating. As for Ali and Jack Ma can turn over this peak, see newer more beautiful and broader scene to jump again, rather than along the slope line down, presumably Ma Yun and Ali team than anyone else is more pressure and sense of urgency. Therefore, observers and commentators may wish to put aside their direction and teaching, and simply congratulate the group of Internet people who created outstanding business results in the past 15.

Tiger Sniff to thank the following seven (former) media person: Yin Seng, Lin Tao, Yang, Shen Prestige, Wangchangcheng, Ding Wei, Li Shang's co-star.

Before the 2006, Ma Yun's Last Pleasure

Wen/Yin Seng (former vice-editor of Forbes Chinese Network)

Recently, I have carefully recalled the three official interviews with Ma Yun, the interviews, which focused on the last few months of 2006, combined with an estimated 7 or 8 hours, were finally reflected in two articles: the cover story of "Chinese entrepreneur", "Ma Yun yahoo.cn", and the Chinese entrepreneur Network, "Ma Yun talks about ebay Tom Joint venture: This case is very strange.

Even now, it seems that the period of the interview is of great significance to Alibaba and Ma Yun himself, said in his own words, this year (that is, from the 1 billion U.S. dollars to accept Yahoo Investment, to an interview in a year), is "Alibaba since the most difficult year to start a business."

My understanding, he refers not only to the integration process itself often the running-in challenge, it also includes various statements about the investment, such as the fact that some media have referred to the financing process as Alibaba being bought by Yahoo – and that even today the debate over whether Ali should take the money from Yahoo still exists.

But I think what he is referring to is more of a competitive environment, and the conflict between the dream and the environment he pursues. "Brawl," which he describes: Ali not only to face and 3721, wisdom and so on the saliva war, also suffered from the traditional portal, Tencent's crackdown-when Taobao tried to charge to the merchant, Tencent patted the opportunity to declare free three years, which led to Taobao abandoned charges, which eventually forced Taobao to step back and seek the next advertising model.

In short, almost all of the Chinese Internet companies in that year were on the opposite side of Alibaba, and he attributed the shift largely to cooperation with Yahoo, which made Ali touch his own sharpness to search, news and other fields. But, objectively, this year has also laid the foundation for Alibaba's nearly $200 billion trillion-valued empire today:

The business-to-business sector is king-though it sees Google, after Baidu's momentum, Mr Ma soon felt the potential threat to the business; c2c thoroughly ebay--it was an American trip by one of his colleagues that made him feel the threat from the consumer side of ebay; Alipay has a model--and ebay inspired him. , making him realise that only the financial sector is in control, the final winner.

Ma Yun here doesn't seem to be the forward-looking you think today, yes, he also thinks that Ali can have the pattern at that time, is completely to the buying and selling process of "muddled" groping, is the result of a timely but forward-looking response to competition, rather than advance planning, he believes that those who can be prepared in advance often difficult to have good results. But compared to most of the entrepreneurs I have seen, MA has a significant difference, that is, he rarely talks about specific products and businesses, but always talk about the future, talk about ideals, talk about values, talk about the global landscape.

Ma Yun himself is also proud of this. He said that he and the CEO of Nokia had a debate in a European forum around 2001 the CEO of Nokia has been talking about the company's products all the way, and it's strange that he thinks the CEO of a company with such status should talk more about the future of the industry and the management and guidance of the company That Nokia is no longer there now.

In general, the 2006 Ma Yun, finally can not be similar to the Nokia CEO, such as the world before a stiff, so can talk about his future view. And at the same time, this year you can also see the master of the river before the warrior Knight Ma Yun Last of the Italian and unabashed ambition. There are two small things to testify:

In the first interview, in the face of "Chinese entrepreneur" the then editor-in-chief New Wengwen and I, as well as other colleagues, he actually said to jump on the table, sit cross-legged, and sometimes to say 10 minutes in a breath. Another is in the interview on ebay Tom Merger, due to the impact of the article, he sent a text message that we should not publish the article, because he has been trying to fade out of the river, but when I said "The river is undecided, how can you return" after he was pleased to say yes.

2006, Ma said, "Five years from now, if Ali is alive in the world, to do the best," he basically did, although also faced some local challenges, such as fakes and business costs. He said, "education, agriculture, environmental protection, these three are what I want to do," he is basically doing. He also began to do things that he thought would not be done, such as movies and games. There are also efforts to do, and still do not do well, such as search-this is his main motivation to introduce Yahoo, but also may be related to the future of Ali Empire Strong.

Where will he take Alibaba? The answer to this question can still be found in the 2006 Jack Ma. "The best business model in the world is the country, and the country's business model is taxed all over the world." "He said at that time.

However, in the world and from ancient times, good governance of the country is only a few.

Ma Yun most unforgettable

Wen/Lin Tao (former senior journalist of China entrepreneur)

Whether happy or not, Ma Yun put on the top of the "China's richest man" hat, history, the hat shiny water slippery, and sank to death, Ding Lei, Chen Tianqiao wear a year on the slippery, Huang Guangyu is ... He always leaves a bald head.

But that's not what I'm going to say next. I would like to say that those who were carrying a recording pen to interview Dick Ma's media cock Silk, incredibly also suddenly worth tens of millions or tens of millions, because they became Ali people five or six years ago.

Of course, these friends from China's first PR team are definitely a pain in the face, sincere attitude to enlighten the values of vulgar parents: Improve life is not the most important thing, and every time before selling stocks to borrow money to buy shares, worry about, and the tax is so terrible, really good to worry about ... Every time, I silently put such a dialogue to cool friends, Hope also let them be happy some.

So, to ask whether Ma Yun is a good boss, is not the eyes of the staff God? Damn it, of course! Making a company that has been treated like a shrimp for many years as China's most lucrative internet company, global internet company market value third, foreign war crippled ebay, the Civil war Baidu, Tencent block in the electric circle wandering outside for several years, employee stock, years of time in the East plant, the west plant to cultivate hundreds of soil trench group, It is difficult to worship the Boss as God.

Customer first cool, staff second cool, shareholders third cool, Ali listed, and finally have a good three.

However, what I'm going to say is not this, I want to say, although these years around the controversy of Ma Yun, Ma Yun is also posted on the forehead of God, theft, chivalrous, cents all kinds of labels, my famous from the media friend is always brooding on Ma Yun, accusing him of being sensational. However, to remove those strange force of God, Ali grew up, so many strong people for its use, in the visionary, Ma Yun's "people" Taste to leave me the deepest impression.

Therefore, I would like to talk about is not the god of Ma Yun, but the interview with MA in the experience of a few "human" fragments.

2006, the first time I deal with Ma Yun is because of writing a Huayi Brother's manuscript interview, at that time, Jack Ma personal investment Huayi Brothers, get the MA number, I dialed MA mobile phone, "I am the Chinese Entrepreneur Magazine ..., I want to talk to you about Zhongjun ..." about more than 10 minutes, Ma Yun's side of the signal suddenly interrupted, because the main problems have been answered, so I did not call the past, but began to prepare for writing. After 20 minutes, the telephone suddenly rang, Ma Yun called back, "sorry, just in the ground, the signal broke ..." and chatted for a few minutes, Jack Ma hung up the phone. Reporter interviewed many CEOs these years, Ma Yun's this call to my impression of the deepest, the phone can not take the initiative to call back is not easy, more difficult is, a reporter has never dealt with the phone call, he can remember the other name, and then through the magazine Switchboard transfer extension ... To know that at that time because of the acquisition of Yahoo China has been ranked among the top Chinese internet, this sincerity and respect for a Dick Silk reporter, with a word to describe, that is "like mu Spring Breeze" ah.

2007 years later, Ma Yun's heyday, even two years, he openly declared no longer to see reporters. However, at the end of 2008, I got the chance to go alone with him to Japan, that time, he went to Japan to see Sun Justice, while visiting the Japanese operation of the Saint Rice Inamorikazuo, in Kyoto, I was with the Japanese head of Alibaba Sun Yu to the hotel to meet Ma Yun, Ma soon out, no attendant assistant, He carries his suitcase to the front desk to check out, after dialogue with Rice Inamorikazuo, we take the Shinkansen to Tokyo, along the way Ma Yun Shunxing very strong, from my friend Jack Welch, to Huayi Brothers to make a new film, to how easily I can knock down Baidu how much market value, but these details I have all do not remember. What I remember is that when it began to rain in Tokyo, Ma Yun and I long line in the rain medium taxi, finally wait for the car, in front of me, Ma Yun suddenly said, you first came to Tokyo, and then let me first to the car, I told the driver before I live in the hotel (when the magazine belongs to the travel expenses, So the hotel and Ma Yun are not together, so, I remember a scene, outside the Tokyo subway station, Ma Yun stood in the rain smiled and waved farewell to me, said a see tomorrow.

Later, every time I see Ma Yun think he is old fast, his office of the Big Sword also replaced golf Club, in the past, with senior executives meeting when Ma Yun always dance this big sword bluff people jump.

All know Jin Yong Martial arts to Ma Yun far-reaching influence, Ma Yun body has Guo Jing, make Fox Chong Righteousness, Yang over the mad, Huang Rong Evil, but Ma yun more yearning to be the wind of the fairy, negative hand standing halfway, do not end up with people, only to teach the Fox Chong Nine strokes of the legendary success, but the fairy in the novel after all only in the imagination, The reality of the force is bound to run, so Ma Yun's several storms are related to seek cents. In fact, sensitive, wise, cunning, Dahua, foresight, cold, funny, competitive ... These are Ma Yun, but I, happened to remember the most is a recovery of the phone, a bus segment.

He has a dramatic feeling.

Wen/Yang (founder of the Shanzhai Conference)

I remember April 2011, CCTV focus interview to do a program, the program name is "online shopping-want to say love you not easy", the content is around Taobao a consumer purchase to fake rights after the process of production.

Ma is very excited, the program just aired, on the occasion of Taobao eight anniversary, from all over the country to invite dozens of reporters to Taobao communication. He played on the surprised again: "to fight fakes, or to play Taobao?" To play online shopping, or to play Taobao? Taobao did not add clenbuterol to the meat, nor did it add melamine to the milk. ”

Although CCTV program to do very serious, but the net shopping and Taobao, Taobao and fake put together said, indeed not so strong logic. Plus MA let Taobao official prepared a large amount of data, that Taobao in the next fake, consumer rights to do the work is very solid, and indeed very convincing. A lot of reporters there feel that where to hit the CCTV this time to eat flat.

So when you ask questions in the media, I used a very "heroic feelings" of the beginning: "Ma, first of all, in a personal capacity to salute you, in order to you dare to a private entrepreneur's identity, to China's largest and most monopolized media cannon ...", the whole Changan. Ma Yun also laughs.

After the press conference, I went to the bathroom and went back to the interview and found the reporters surrounded by a bunch of it's not responding. This is the time, listen to someone around said back back, the crowd and a voice said where, and then the reporters spread a channel, exposing the middle is surrounded by Ma.

He strode up to me, stretched out his hand and held me tightly, saying thanks for thanking. I also shook back, said understanding understanding understanding, Taobao is your son, who heard the son so was said also bad. He smiled more happily.

Then think of it, he is so excited, nor we write more objective and impartial manuscript, but in the scene, the kind of create a more conflicting feelings of the atmosphere infected him. CCTV's call to criticize Internet companies has been largely the result of tumbling stock prices and an apology from critics, so he should have been worried about the launch. And after the reporters started asking questions, he should have let go of the worry.

Ma Yun is a very theatrical person, like to deal with some things in life more dramatic, but also look forward to or say that the promotion of this dramatic occurrence.

A cross?

Wen/Shen Weifeng (financial writer, once served in the "Economic Observer", published "Taobao: Inverted people win!" "and" business fierce entrepreneurial toxic "and other works)

When I met Jack Ma, he has been a successful entrepreneur--this is a big regret of my career, I entered early enough, unfortunately in Alibaba is also considered a liar, Ma Yun is also considered a madman, I patronize the interview at that time the three big doors bright. One of my colleagues went to Alibaba's press conference and came back and told me that the company was a real bluff.

When I met Jack Ma, he was just a very successful entrepreneur. If success is divided into 10 levels, he is on the threshold of level 9.9, which is about six. There was only one book called "Who Knows Jack Ma" in the market, and today it is said that a new book about him will be launched every month.

But the flexor calculation, also will be nearly seven or eight years of the scene. During this period I looked at Taobao slowly to do it, and then suddenly one day it became very big, especially to make money. I watched Alibaba go public in Hong Kong, and the share price fluctuated, and then suddenly one day it withdrew the--B2B business from the group of cows, slowly becoming less noticeable. I looked at Alipay business from a business segment of Taobao, to become an independent company, by now, this small microfinance group outside the Alibaba Group has shown infinite possibilities, and the Pengley that I have been very gentle in my impressions, from the HR boss to the head of the financial group. I watched the company grow bigger, more distant, more and more difficult to trace, and was going through more and more criticism and sharpening. But Ma Yun has not changed.

Interestingly, except for the first time because of writing "Taobao, inverted win" this book, serious interviewed Ma Yun two hours, other times to meet no formal interview. Sometimes chat, of course, mainly he danced to speak, I sat to listen. In the relaxed state, he has been very did not sit phase, directly off the shoes lying on the sofa, suddenly jumped up to take the sword to put up the moves, but also has been gushing to say. Said that his recent travels, said the outside concern, said he was misunderstood when the injustice, said that childhood was father dozen but never shed tears ... Even once, he had a story about Tai Chi on the plane, excitedly speaking to me. In a martial arts story, run through a lot of business logic and thinking, a very picture of a story, he wanted me to write it, but a few years later, I have not been able to complete the task, and Huayi made the film, it is obviously disappointing.

So in my eyes, he has been a bit like Peter Pan, made a dream about the future, and then slowly this dream becomes reality. Many years ago, Pengley said a word to me, "Ma Yun is responsible for flying in the sky, we are responsible for running on the ground." We tried to run fast enough to avoid holding him down. "I asked her," You are not afraid he is too unrestrained? She smiled and said he was always right.

Of course not, Ma Yun misses a lot of things. But so far all the errors have not wavered, and in the general direction he is surprisingly accurate. I have asked Jack Ma about this question. In his memory he had a gut instinct and a bunch of mystical answers. By the way, this man is always immune to strange forces, so famous monks and nuns in recent years often get involved with him. The outside world often so demanding him that he should not be with these people mix. I think he is so much more interesting, people can not have a hobby?

Maybe because we haven't had a serious conversation over the years, I can't write the article about Ma Yun's insights into business operations and business thinking. But the two words he said a few years ago, in retrospect, are especially memorable today. One time I asked him, why do you say the business has to be smaller? He replied, because when your dream grows bigger, the business becomes smaller. The dialogue took place five years ago, I saw Ali's huge territory today, compared to Mr Ma's letter to investors, seems to have a bit of faith.

Earlier, I asked him a very lame question, what would you like to see Taobao in the future? ' I don't know what the future should look like, ' he said. ' I hope it becomes a monster, something beyond my imagination.

Recently, someone always asked me whether Ma will become the richest man. I don't know, I'm not used to linking him to wealth. Maybe he has a spendthrift side, but what I see is that he's always trying to make himself more interesting and valuable. I do not want to use some more positive words to describe him, from my view, he is a more capable and therefore more responsible ordinary people. And Alibaba is not necessarily a great company, the big companies should have problems now in Ali's body is also clearly visible. How to keep the company moving forward after the IPO is even a topic of concern to me. But the emergence of Taobao and Alipay, so that our lives have changed dramatically: all walks of life, all kinds of business, manufacturing and even society, will have some changes.

The change itself is great.

A friend saw some through the novel, ran to tell me, don't think Ma Yun is from the future through, using economic means, pry the social change? I think this is the most interesting explanation for E.T. Ma Yun, the Cross.

The closer you get to Ma Yun, the less he will be God.

Text/Wangchangcheng (from media person)

From the first official interview with Ma today, almost five years, during which interviews or chat about six or seven times, can write most of the article in the year, can not write now still can't write.

These days, the micro-letter circle of Friends are everywhere about Ma Yun and Ali of the chicken soup article, many plots are confusedly or apocryphal imagination, over a different entrepreneur to press on a new pot of chicken soup. In short, is to make Ma Yunsheng born a god, into the King defeated thinking, has been affecting the Chinese people, the business sector is not spared.

Some people will think, is Ali PR help Ma Yun God, how possible? In Ali's own eyes, Ma Yun is not God: not mysterious, not nerves, not magical, not avatar, not Shinto. Put aside the value and business do not talk, he is a particularly ordinary people, do not install force, no shelves. That said, still can't understand, I just give a few examples.

On one occasion, Mr Ma in the Ali Riverside Park (Ali Business-to-business location) to participate in the conference, Ali's public relations are concentrated in a temporary conference room office, after the press conference, I rely on not to go, Ma suddenly walked into the chat, there is no empty seat, he himself pulled a box to sit up.

Another time, Ma Yun in the Star Venture Mansion (formerly the location of Taobao) to participate in the press conference, I caught to do an interview, Ma Yun's office is not here, PR also do not know, and no one in advance to arrange an office, he conveniently pushed open an office door. (This is one of 18 Arhat, Ali senior vice President Kardashian's office, I know a few Ali senior executives of the office is often ajar, never locked. A Kardashian back, Ma Yun looked up to ask you to use it, you need me to chat in this day. Kardashian said you talked, and went out.

In short, the closer he is, the less he will be a god, and if you ask Ali, no one will be God. Or look at Ma's assistant Chen Wei wrote the book, "This is Ma Yun" and the supplementary article "This is still Ma Yun", there is no hint of myth.

At the moment, the plane is crossing the vast, icy Arctic Ocean, flying to New York to participate in the Chinese Alibaba market Bell ceremony. As far as I know, this ritual is different from that of other companies that have been listed, not to make God, especially like ordinary people. I can only say so much, then, everyone will witness.

The three books that Ma Yun should read most

Wen/Ding Wei (Vice editor of Bloomberg Business Weekly Chinese edition)

1. Bono on Bono. "Celebrity is stupid, but it's a currency, you have to use it wisely ..." "I'm willing to be exploited, that's exactly what I do," U2, a leading singer, a prominent public good and technology investor, said in the interview's autobiography. I would go out with anyone and be in the public eye, but I'm not a cheap date. I know I'm being used, and all of this has a price ... "Maybe Mr Ma resonates with these words."

2. Why do businessmen need philosophy? Ayn Rand, an Objectivism woman philosopher and Alan Greenspan's mentor, defended the entrepreneurs who were questioned and vilified: "Who is the biggest victim of moral theory?" It's your businessman. The greater your size, the worse you will be morally. Ma Yun must have been comforted: "Wealth creators are always committed to his cause with the passion of a lover, the zeal of a reformer, the devotion of a saint, the endurance of a martyr." His wrinkled forehead and balance sheet are the only evidence the world has ever known ...

He would also think about Mrs. Rand's proposal: What would happen if business was run by altruistic people? Mother Teresa is the president of your company.

3. "Knowledge is moral responsibility". An anthology written by Lionel Trilling, a critic of American literature, is the epitome of New York's intellectual ideas in the the 1950s. Ma Yun will see his growth shadow: Mr Trillin when he was young, did not think he belonged to the people who are full of knowledge (Ma Yun did not read a serious university), on the contrary, "I am very dependent on intuition, I am proud of that I have the so-called keen quality." He did not want to be informed, because it was not the requisite qualities of a novelist, and the novelist required "only a keen eye and a sensitive mind to recognize behavior and motivation". Doing Internet entrepreneurship and building an ecosystem is also true.

But later, after the conflict of ideas, "the special dispute between character and knowledge", "The Happy Rap Wit" and "moral realism" compromise, Mr Trillin from pragmatism to Transcendentalism, and thinks that knowledge is the requirement of public responsibility of intellectuals. "The real purpose of our quest for knowledge is not that it can bring answers to the problems in our lives, but that we believe that knowing is life ... We love to be aware, just as we love virtue, it is out of love for their nature, and we believe that knowledge is only the alias of Virtue, and it is a more appropriate name. ”

Celebrity, businessman's philosophy, the knowledge of virtue, is about to stage the world's largest IPO, become China's richest man Ma should pick up the level of the three realms.

How many people want to become the symbol "Ma Yun"?

Wen/Shang ("Financial World" editor-in-chief)

After Steve Jobs's death, the Wall Street Journal was unable to exception and published an article on who would be the next Steve Jobs. The people mentioned include Mark Zuckerberg of the United States and Jeff Bezos, Japanese son and internet entrepreneur Jack Ma in mainland China. At that time and today, jobs had become a recognized legend. Therefore, whoever can be called the next Steve Jobs, of course, should be regarded as a great compliment. This article naturally let many people heart some sour, said Ma Yun is will engage in media relations. Just like he did on the cover of Forbes magazine.

But Mr Ma himself has expressed himself not to be Steve Jobs on more than one occasion. What I remember is a domestic media conversation at Taobao Mall (today's cat) that changed the rules that triggered "October siege"; He said Jobs was a very lonely person who had no friends. He doesn't want to be a man like Steve, who wants to spend more time with his family and friends.

If you do not understand the background of Ma Yun's speech, alone I do not want to do a person like Steve Jobs A word, it is enough to assume that this person is to borrow jobs hype: Who do you think you are, do not want to become jobs? But if considering the 2011 Ma Yun suffered the "seven boxing", and his release before the hand painting "endure" the word behavior, you can think of Ma's words is actually from the heart. Cai Yuanpei, who abruptly resigned as president of Peking University on May 9, 1919, wrote: "I am tired!" The man who kills the horse is beside the road. Ma Yun must have the same mood. The Voice of praise or abuse of the spectators, is able to exhausted Knight and knight hip Horse.

Renowned, slander will follow. This sentence in today's Ma Yun is the most appropriate. Ma Yun and Alibaba a variety of explanations, a variety of inferences, many of them are indeed ironic, only regrets that the Internet industry is ultimately the Internet analyst. And the industry, even if it is already a high weight, can only end up a Shing public opinion situation. Of course, this is an inevitable phenomenon of early chaos in the democratization of speech.

I am often asked how familiar I am with Ma. My answer is that I respect him and the things he does. Alibaba is the company that has really changed China. To be familiar with the words, who I am familiar with this kind of words, by a reporter to speak out, basically, you know ... he said, we respect each other and trust each other. I heard it with trepidation. Cause I'll talk about it later. If he really sees me as someone I can talk to, I'm honored. I think that maybe he knew I really wanted to know what he was thinking, and there was no mentality of the hammer holder--there was a saying that the man with the hammer in his hand, looking like a nail, wanted to go up and beat it.

The first time I spoke to Jack Ma was in 2008, in the lobby of the Four Seasons Hotel in Shanghai, about tea with him. It was also about a long time. I went in with a notebook, Alibaba's vice President Shuai (later the group CMO) said to me: "You still put this up, horse always see will not happy, said good not interview." "Since the 2007 Alibaba Business-to-business Business in Hong Kong listed, Ma Yun and Alibaba announced that it is not to be interviewed." In fact, for a long time, he did not receive a serious interview. My boss, the editor-in-chief of the Economic Observer, Liu Jian, said: "I joked with Ma, we'll see if we can break this record." ”

What struck me most was that in the winter of 2011, the Chinese Entrepreneur Club organized a group of entrepreneurs to visit the United States. At the end of the trip, Jerry Yang invited everyone to dinner at Stanford University's School Museum. Because he is a very important donor at Stanford University, he can do that. The museum closes the door, a group of Chinese eat in it, and they bring Maotai. Yang joked that we drank more table chairs can be casually smashed, it is best not to move the wall painting, although not Shang, but really expensive. Jack Ma also came, he was a resident of the United States.

At that dinner, Sina CEO Charles Chao said he had just seen the Mary Meeker of the Internet Queen that afternoon. Mary Meeker told him that it was known that Jerry Yang had founded a great internet company, Yahoo, but often overlooked his investment in another great internet company, Alibaba. Then Mr. Ma came on stage and delivered a very moving speech. He mentioned that China's ancient businessmen could not be a hospice, referring to the 2011 seven-punch. The listener was moved.

In 2011, Ma Yun opened three press conferences, I participated in the payment of equity transfer after the storm. After the conference, I followed the "Chinese entrepreneur" Li Yu, Wangchangcheng interview with Ma. They later made a cover. I feel that Ma Yun's mood is indeed not too good, so the speech is also more without scruples, vivid. Later he himself said that there were fluctuations. What impressed me most was when he talked about son, he said, "son, it's harder for you to get a stake in his hand than to pull a tooth out of a female tiger."

Ma Yun, who has always been very talkative, often has a good wit. The Wall Street Journal said he was eloquent. For example, in 2011 Taobao Mall revised rules triggered a storm after the press conference, he said: "Some people say that we increase the mall to take the money to buy Yahoo, but also calculated a number, said to be able to receive 4 billion yuan, but you know how much Yahoo worth?" Now it's worth 20 billion dollars! By the way, when can I buy Yahoo? "If we can talk about it, his language has always been this style." This is also a very important element of his personal charisma. Alibaba to open a conference, the basic will not tell reporters whether Ma will attend. Personally, if I know that Ma Yun will attend the conference and answer the questions, I will go to Hangzhou to listen.

I have a high opinion of Ma Yun. But I don't think I've ever talked to the media about my opinion of Ma Yun, and every time I would say, I think it's all in my personal name. I have always had the view that the fastest progress in China in the past few decades has actually been in the business world. For example, one time I went to Nanjing with the old boss Liu Jian to see Suning chairman Zhang Jindong, Zhang Jindong recalled that his first meeting with Liu Jian, is Su Ning want to open a shop in Beijing. Flash in the past few years, Suning has been one of China's largest private enterprises, and the economic observer of the growth rate of how fast?

Another thing that makes me personally stimulated is the payment of equity transfer events. It was a big deal in business news around the world. Because of the three companies involved, Yahoo, SoftBank and Alibaba are all very much in the spotlight. But Chinese business journalists are incapable of manipulating such topics. It involves the integration of Cross-border resources and the issue of cross-border interviews. China's media are basically incapable of accomplishing such a operation. In other words, Alibaba has already run to the front. We have no ability to cover some of the things in this company.

China is now the second-largest economic superpower of global GDP. But how many of the country's more than 1.3 billion people, in every field, can stand on the global stage and interact with the top figures in the field and be recognized? Different standards, each person will have different answers in mind. But to be sure, the number must be very small, and Mr Ma must be in it.

Go back to the beginning of the article. Ma Yun said he did not want to be jobs, I do not know how many people would like to be "Ma Yun" If I put myself in the shoes. Anyway, I don't want to. From some remarks, MA also did not want to. "Ma Yun" is just a robe, put on it becomes "Ma Yun", he said in an interview with "Chinese entrepreneur". "Ma Yun" is a symbol, a person who is loved and hated by others. To do such a person psychologically bear ability to be very good. I hope that, Ma Yun will not be "Ma" kidnapped, that would have exhausted himself.