The internet age of wealth creation

Absrtact: Globalization and the Internet, while narrowing the distance of the world, also shortened the process of the Chinese people from poor to rich, to the past more than 10 years, decades and even generations of the long wealth accumulation process, condensed to 35 years of time. I have the money.

Globalization and the Internet, while narrowing the distance between the world, but also shorten the process of Chinese from poor to rich, the past needs more than 10 years, decades or even generations of the long wealth accumulation process, condensed to 35 years time. "I'm rich." This incident has changed from a small probability event to a "Everyone is Columbus" group Carnival.

Because of its particularity, the Internet industry is the best industry to produce one night in the last more than 10 years, it makes rich man's speed, frequency and quantity exceed all other industries. From the initial dotcom bubble stage, a person who has a dream, a plan (even on a napkin) can immediately get a million dollar investment, there are tens of millions of dollars in paper, and then in the SP era, there seems to be a channel to be able to earn millions of dollars, and finally to the million-dollar price sold to Australia Telecom and other companies; More is the IPO into the Chinese concept stocks, batch production of various billionaires, billionaires and millionaires.

As an Internet industry experience, this more than 10 years, I have seen the internet industry surging, but also seen a lot of people from broke to a rich man overnight. More often than not, I am full of compassion for the process of many people from being poor to rich. In the encounter with the sudden wealth, many people lose Shing. How to deal with wealth is a very serious topic-when financial freedom brings the initial ecstasy fade, when people find themselves unable to control their hearts, they are painful and crazy. Many of them have chosen to go from rich to vulgar, not from rich to expensive, from expensive to elegant path, although they have a chance to walk more interesting.

I "shaped" a man named Raloxifene, whose story gathered the true experience of a few friends I knew, a wonderful adventure for a 29-year-old man in the face of wealth after being collectively rich in the Internet industry. This person represents a group of people, each person who has experienced this can find themselves here. In fact, this article is about this ignorant lucky person to face the sudden wealth of the fear, struggle, degradation and depravity, coupled with the surrounding bystanders and imitators ... all of this makes up our rich internet age.

Rich

Raloxifene, a graduate student of a famous university. After working in an internet company for 4 years, he turned a large option into a multimillionaire, retiring at the age of 29, and his dream of retiring before he was 30 years old.

Born in remote areas of rural raloxifene, in the county is not only the pride of the local, but also myth: the first prestigious University of the first-year old, before the age of 30 to become rich. According to Raloxifene's grandmother, the whole family has not seen such things in the past few decades, let alone he has made tens of millions of wealth.

Raloxifene memories of past and money are painful: until the undergraduate graduation, he every day in the canteen in front of the tangle, the female students in the class to his impression is never to participate in collective activities, also did not see he sent who gifts, and even dinner with his girlfriend are Westernized AA system. This situation until he studied a winter vacation by senior introduced into an internet company internship, only to improve.

The company was founded after a returnee returned home, it is said that he was the wife of a "do not come back on the divorce" forced back. The initial members of the company were alumni of the founders, who were sitting in a few small rooms in a hotel near the school.

When Raloxifene first went to the company for an interview, it was a little hesitant to see the scene because he was afraid to do the job but not get paid. Until the introduction of his brother to guarantee the personality, raloxifene to put the heart back to the belly. During the interview, he was shocked by the boss's mouthful of big words, until he walked back to the dormitory and never returned to his house. To this day, Raloxifene remembers such a passage: "Young people do not see the immediate pay is very heavy, we are now to work hard not to think too much, wait until the company listed, give you these stock options worth a lot of money, then you are at least a millionaire, or in dollars. By then, you can retire to enjoy life before you are 30 years old, like the people in Silicon Valley. "Speaking of which, the boss picked up a bunch of keys on the table and said," At that point, the keys would open "a villa in Silicon Valley and a BMW in front of us with a beautiful woman." All this sounds in the raloxifene, it is impossible, but full of endless temptation. Looking at the handsome and soft boss, he decided to gamble.

Raloxifene to the villa, BMW and retired before the age of 30, began to work hard in this company. That period of time for raloxifene is really passionate burning years. Every morning after work at 9 o ' clock until 11 o'clock in the evening, go home to sleep and get up and go back to the company. Raloxifene one months is guaranteed to have more than 10 days to sleep on the company floor. And it's not just him, it's the whole company, and the dream is like chicken blood that keeps everyone in a state of excitement.

In the dead of night, Raloxifene sometimes secretly thought, now work every day like a cow, each month can only get the wages of subsistence. Although it is not necessary to live in a dark basement, he can only live in the rented small room of the old building in the 60 's, and reward himself with a barbecue stall downstairs. For a long time, raloxifene all the keys can not open the villa and BMW suspicious, always want to talk with the boss, whether to give more money to give less options, but each time to go to the boss and go back to the door.

After 2 years of work at the company, Raloxifene 4 years later, the company finally went public. For a long time, the company's conference room every day there are many unfamiliar with foreign words and expressions of men and women come and go. Those who are lawyers for investment banks, auditors or brokerages are helping companies to go public, say colleagues who know the ropes. At last the bosses disappeared for one months, and they were said to have gone to the American roadshow. On the day of the listing, the company is all in the office waiting, the company's front desk set up a large publicity board, engraved on the "XX (company name) people are very good", let people at first glance think is XX (company name) People's Bank. In fact, "very good" and the bank can indeed represent the performance of the company after the listing, the stock from 27 dollars suddenly rose to 100 U.S. dollars, comparable to the printing machine.

In this way, raloxifene after 4 years of graduation really got the first 10 million in life. It seems like a dream, so unreal. Out of the noisy office, downstairs at the small barbecue stall, drank two bottles of beer to eat a string of large kidney two meat ribs five meat string, raloxifene upstairs sitting in bed watching four weeks. Suddenly, he picked up the fitness stick and started to smash the computer TV closet and all the items, until he was exhausted and had a real sense of being. He believes all this is true. Open the window, looking at the barbecue stall of the small boss husband and wife, he shouted: "I am a multimillionaire!" Goodbye, big kidney! Good-bye, meat sinews! Later I want to eat lobster eat abalone eat shark fin! His face was full of tears when he closed the window.

Judging from many measures, Raloxifene succeeded. But the success came too "damn" hastily, and he was really unprepared. In the past, those who gave themselves pep talk actually he didn't quite believe, now all come true, he is really a bit confused and frightened. Raloxifene the first thing to work every day is to open Yahoo Finance to see the company's share price, and then go to the trading site to see their book wealth, carefully 1.1 transactions. It feels good to see those stocks turn into money and deposit them in his account. But he's always worried about a few zeros on the screen and a 1 left. Raloxifene also often have nightmares, the dream scene is mostly money gone, those villas and BMW fly. Until a long time later, he looked at Yahoo Finance every day, looking at his account number of those zeros.

Every day, Raloxifene's bag must take at least 100,000 yuan, otherwise the heart is not steadfast, does not have the million rich existence feeling. He had a big dinner every night, and even if he had a casual meal he would have to make a four-vegetable soup of official hospitality. One time after work, Raloxifene took the subway to the Oriental Xintiandi, from the end of Wangfujing to the east side, found that he can afford the things inside, including the car dealership's most expensive Audi.

Money, he began to doubt the meaning of life and work, especially the monthly salary is only 1 per thousand of his total wealth. He hesitated to continue to write code or retire every day in the company. The latter is the goal that bosses and seniors often use to motivate him to work hard: you have to work hard and the company goes public and you get a sum of money to retire.

Retirement

After 3 months of struggling to write code each day or retire to enjoy life, raloxifene a trivial conflict with his new boss. This man is a company listed later, perhaps the salary is higher than raloxifene, but the overall wealth is definitely much less than raloxifene, because he did not enjoy the listing dividend. Raloxifene decided to resign, and walked extremely resolutely, when the boss sent an e-mail to ask him the reason (at this time the owner of billions of dollars, there is no time to interview them), raloxifene answer is, I want to take that bunch of keys to live in the villa and open BMW.

Raloxifene really retired.

After retiring, Relogan the first thing is to buy a BMW three-series convertible. When he was at school, the dirt-rich man outside was driving a car to pick up girls from school. The girl he had always had a crush on often went out of the school gate and rode off in such a car that he was stimulated by the morning's dusty flight back into the classroom. Raloxifene also bought a big house (although not in Silicon Valley, but he was satisfied), and every day, he slept in the big house to wake up naturally, and then drove BMW on the "rational Four ring road."

Raloxifene ran to Lijiang for one months, do not want to sit in the street café every day to bask in the sun, but unfortunately he has not met the legendary affair. Then he went to Australia to see the kangaroo, rode for one months. Raloxifene round All the past dreams, and then returned to Beijing, continue to sleep every day to wake up naturally, eat good drink good, around the retirement life. Such a day after a big six months, he suddenly found such a leisurely life will make people feel "gray often" boring, although the past life is very busy very grassroots, but people seem very fulfilling very satisfied. Now although see what can buy and still afford, but Raloxifene feel his happiness is not past much. He's a little tired of this retirement. He began to want to change the isolation of his retirement life.

Raloxifene began to return to the original circle of life, with the former classmates and colleagues to eat tea. He found that many of his friends, who had the same experience, lived in the same way as he did: getting paid to retire, enjoying life and then starting to feel anxious about being disconnected from society. Some of them are starting to make small investments, such as glasses shops, beauty salons, restaurants and so on. These investments do not seem to have any relevance to their past work, and are entirely low-end and cross-border. These small businesses are in fact they think they can make money, but when they actually do it, they find that the business conditions are so-so, and some of them are a loss to the end. Of course, a small number of people continue to develop in the industry, some people in the original company, more people to move to some smaller companies to do higher positions. These people are as busy as ever, and seem to never get off work-they are the most late when friends are at a party.

Long-term retirement life, let Raloxifene and social disconnect. The awkward part is that every time I go out to a friend's party, he doesn't know how to introduce himself. Finally, like his rich friends, he labeled himself an angel investor. Many of his former colleagues found him, hoping to see the project, but he looked at a few later found that these projects are too unreliable, not reliable to his retirement for a few years to see the flaws. So he was more anxious, and this anxiety made him powerless, and seemed to be unable to lift the spirit of the woman. In fact, he can not afford to do anything, no sense of accomplishment, no sense of existence.

Raloxifene miss his passion burning years. How to do, is to return to the Internet company as director, or find a large company to work, or their own sidelines when the boss to start a business, copy the wealth of the past myth?

One of his friends said, do not touch the capital, as long as you have the capital, you will be addicted to do other things. Indeed, Raloxifene could not bear to work for his wages, which was not something he had to do at this stage, and he could not interest him. Raloxifene more than a part-time job, he hopes to reproduce his glory in the internet company: After working hard for a few years, suddenly tens of millions of wealth into the bag; he wished he could lead a group of people to create a miracle that would make the group the same as the millionaire dollar.

Raloxifene decided to back out of the lake.

WTO

What do you do when you re out of the lake? Raloxifene began the preliminary research. After more than 20 industry meetings and more than 60 dinners and more than 130 coffees, raloxifene to his position as Angel Investor + start-up CEO, the chosen entrepreneurial direction is the mobile Internet domain social network.

Raloxifene set up the initial entrepreneurial team, members of the original colleagues, there are other people introduced to the younger brother sister. More than 10 people like the company in the beginning of the same year, in Huaqing Jia Garden in full swing to dry up. These new people are very envious of the legendary experience of Raloxifene, but also look forward to tainted with Raloxifene's good luck, fantasy with him to create a new internet company, but also like Raloxifene in the 30 years before the financial freedom to obtain a happy life.

Raloxifene himself took 1 million business, not the dollar, is the renminbi. Although he also advertised himself as an angel investor and joined some of his friends, he firmly believed that the Internet's capital path was to never start a business with his own money, and then to get a big capital investment to quickly advance the company. So he started looking for Angel investments, and wanted a round, B, and C rounds until the IPO.

His former colleague friend was his main object of financing. Raloxifene's former colleague, Lao Wan, became his "Angel", who had several unsuccessful career experiences with his colleagues in Raloxifene before he came to the company later. Because his experience is different from the students ' atmosphere in the Internet company, so Lao Wan did play a lot of roles at that time. After leaving before the company went public, Lao Wan had several unsuccessful career experiences, investing in business such as beauty salons and clubhouse restaurants, and now he has become an angel investor. Because of the common background of the past, old million cast a raloxifene.

In the process of entrepreneurship, Raloxifene seems to find a sense of existence, back to the familiar environment, but also encountered a lot of problems, such as internal management, and the relationship between investors and so on, which he is not good at coping. Raloxifene began to participate frequently in entrepreneurial competitions, access to network resources. In these places, he found a lot of interesting people: entrepreneurship several times but poor high total, from Duke University after the doctor back Yang Total. Read too much about people and wealth story, Raloxifene still not quite accustomed to these scenes. He sometimes wanted to laugh like an outsider, sometimes at a loss, but with a faint desire to blend in.

Raloxifene has no experience in the past, even in the Internet companies to do the director, he does not have much management experience, only with the guys to write programs. In the process of starting the company, he consciously experienced hardships. In particular, the process of handling the business license, but also let him full of frustration, found that he did not think so tough. Raloxifene found that starting a company is not as simple as it might seem. He found that in the face of the young men who had come to the interview, he could not have been able to tell a compelling story of "a bunch of keys", as the former boss did.

After several strategic shifts and tweaks to the product, Raloxifene's company seemed hopeful because he was on the mobile internet, his app user number has broken 1 million, and the software has been developed by word of mouth. But Raloxifene actually still don't know how to take their own products how to make money, VC see more walk too. FA (Financeadvisor) Miss became his financing helper. Miss's famous saying is: to finance their own to the most is a makeup, but if you are firewood girl, how to make up. We FA the biggest ability is breast augmentation, chest big to attract people, of course, we do not do transsexual surgery. Raloxifene's company in Miss's "breast augmentation" strategy, the profit model seems to be "long" out.

Raloxifene Company's entire financing process is comparable to "People's Literature" published in the non-fiction novel "Blind Date", the dollar fund RMB funds to see, all kinds of problems, a variety of issues related to wealth collision, finally melted to the money.

In several strategic transformation and product adjustment, and countless VC opened countless meeting, Raloxifene and rich again-this time he took 3 consecutive times accumulated 45 million dollars, paper wealth has more than 95 million U.S. dollars. Raloxifene suddenly encountered a book assets "rich".

Some of his friends around this stage are also competing to get financing, the most people have more than 100 million dollars. In this "rich", God again to test humanity. The relationship between colleagues, partners, angel investors, original shareholders, customers, etc. is changing, and the biggest change is raloxifene and his friends. For example, if the raloxifene had been replaced by a green car, it would now undoubtedly be on a high-speed train-an acceleration that made them really confused.

Out

Not until Raloxifene adapt to the new environment, failure suddenly fell from the sky.

Raloxifene's products have been beaten by new companies overnight, with a Web site without users being sad. Raloxifene was expelled, and his investors thought his flaws were enough to hinder him from becoming a good CEO, and they thought that everything was raloxifene, hoping to find a CEO who could replace Raloxifene to save the company.

Renault's dismissal was full of dramatic effects: He was interviewed by a VC company and received only two MBA graduates. In his company, it was another scene: VC Partners held a staff meeting to criticize him. When Renault hurried back to the company, the office couldn't get in, and the phones and computers were turned over.

This, raloxifene back to the past retirement status. His company also had no good news, and he heard the news of layoffs and shrinking books until it closed. Renault's book wealth also evaporated.

Renault did not know what the problem was, and every day he hid in the water for a drink. He has been here every day since 2009 and the Cantonese is a very authentic song. He used to drink with his business partners to listen to the song Jiangshan, now his head lowered to the crotch, trance, only the past assistant occasionally come to see him after work.

The friends around him who have financed and bolted on the entrepreneurial road continue to enjoy the glory of paper wealth: interviewing, attending meetings, attending dinners. Outsiders will not understand that these people, like raloxifene, bear the immense pressure of wealth. Some friends are still partying in nightclubs, or they are living a retirement or a half retirement routine.

Raloxifene in the bar to get drunk, he in trance back to the past, see the poor, see the rich, he seems to have a dream. Now he could see it in a compassionate manner. He decided to say good-bye to the past.

Life goes on, he wants to find his value again.