Programmer Transformation Book business: To do old books business year turnover amounted to tens of millions

Wang Yu, a former programmer who has worked in Huawei, Symantec and Motorola for nearly 10 years, has entered the old book industry, single-handedly, with a turnover of tens of millions of dollars. I like to ask a new friend a question: What would you use to do if you were 200 million? Hearing the problem, everyone, without exception, will be immersed in a long period of meditation. Their responses will directly reflect their respective living conditions and the prospect of life. If he encounters Wang Yu, he will answer succinctly and concisely: I will use the money to do a bigger business. "You see, the World is fair." Why Wang Yu is an entrepreneur, is a qualified businessman, the answer is here. Wang Yu is Shenyang people, is the annual sales to do more than 10 million yuan old books tycoon, is always a loner, always singles alone entrepreneurial madman. Because of his weight, he gave himself a net called reloading. You often see him wearing a fat pair of jeans, carrying a Shing black backpack from a distance to come over, the eyes because of the thought of the empty confused. He seldom talks nonsense because it wastes time. I've noticed that even every expression on his face is less than normal, and I guess this is to avoid unnecessary time and physical exertion. Familiar with him, in order to show his admiration for the business genius, called him the king. If you are a regular friend, you usually call the Fat man. Every time we meet, Wang Yu, the king, always likes to talk about his business plan. He spent every second of his life thinking about business projects and thinking about how to make money. For example, last meal together, Wang Yu said his new project is to the plant vs zombies "this game transplanted to the arcade, of course, the form must be a makeover, to fully localize, adapt to China's national conditions." He thought it over, replacing the opposing sides with the demolition team and the nail house. Demolition Team Fight Nail House, more you anyway. In order to save costs, background music to find a copyright protection period, this is the final struggle, united to tomorrow "is very appropriate." Wang Yu's business began in 2005, when he was a Motorola programmer and a high income white-collar. In order to find a "Lu Xun's Diary" (according to Lu Xun's book account, learning to buy old books, this advanced experience many collectors have just started to learn from), he stumbled into the circle of old books. He soon found that there was a profit-making difference between different sales channels in the industry. He also learned that in Japan to sell the photo of the anti-Japanese ", a variety of collotype pictures, the price is much lower than the domestic." Traditional collectors shrug off this sort of book, but they do have a very stable market. Wang Yu carefully studied the previous few years of Chinese ancient book auction records, under the relevant items are glued to the eye-catching small sticky stickers. Retrace, in contact with the old Japanese bookstore, buys all the books he thinks are in the margins. In the initial stage, the use of the Internet and foreign languages, so that he and competitors compared to Chigau. The first book he bought from Japan was "South painting", earning 40,000 yuan. People don't think he'sWhat climate--he's basically a layman for the industry. He does not understand the ancient books, will not identify the version, the computer professional graduation, lack of sufficient knowledge of literature and history. Moreover, as a programmer, he can only use the night and weekend time to do business. A year later, when the amateur bookseller announced that it had done 2 million yuan in sales (a figure that surpassed most of the books in Beijing), everyone in the circle didn't believe it. Some people say: fat, you blow it. Some people say: the Northeast people are fond of fooling around. "As a north-east man, he has unfortunately acted as the latest casualty of this prejudice." Then he quit his job at Motorola. He has proved the old photographs and the ancient books of the two potential huge bonanza, greatly expanding his business scope. He opened a shop in Panjiayuan, and he met some big buyers. One spring afternoon, an old man in a little Chinese coat and gray hair walked into his shop and asked for an older picture. Wang Yu refers to the Peking landscape hanging on the wall, 10 of a group. The old man looked and said, I bought this. And ask, is there anything else? Wang Yu from below the counter to take out a set of West Lake album. This is a little more expensive, the old man also very readily. He differs from the average customer in that he does not ask for the price. Before leaving, he left a business card to deliver and take the money according to the address above. Later, Wang Yu know that the old man just flew back from the United States, jet lag, sleep, so to pan home to stroll a circle. The delivery place on the business card is Berlin temple. Berlin Temple in the east side of the Lama Temple, five into the capital, is one of the eight temples, has been occupied by the Ministry of Culture. The temple has been preserved in China's only "Dragon Sutra" version. The old man's company called Imaging International, new photography, rented a courtyard in the temple. After playing this deal, the city of the old pictures of the auction, Wang Yu all the catalogue to him, and help him in the auction to raise the bidding. Of course, also helped him to buy a lot of Wang Yu himself sent to the auction company things. In a few years, Wang Yu's old photos bought by the gaffer were a great price. In the second half of 2013, the old man became the famous network of the nationwide hot. Wang Yu said that the old gentleman is extremely intelligent, social science knowledge is extremely rich. He learned a lot from the old gentleman about his business experience. Later, Wang Yu in the shop, the curator of the Chinese Art Museum, Peaboby Essex Museum, Massachusetts, USA. Ms. Bai specializes in collecting books related to Chinese architecture. That day Wang Shen just in the country temple bought the ministry "Chankoro Beijing Architecture", the afternoon to 40,000 yuan sold to Ms. White. These two were his first big clients. 2010 Wang Yu turnover reached 16 million yuan. This is an astonishing number for the old book industry, which is still in the business of the cruise, equivalent to the running water of a general store in a state-run Chinese bookstore all year round. Wang Yu Evaluation of the year himself: Japanese books, foreign language books, I basically do the top. But the ancient books, there are many people do better than me, I have a lot to improve the place. "In a few years, he became an important part of the ancient book auction, from a layman who did not touch the door.Characters。 You can always hear someone whisper in the auction: Fat Man. I've seen this book at The Fat Man's. "This is probably by the fat himself back." "There's something to say. The staff of the Chinese bookstore also knew him. Once I went to Liulichang Ancient book bookstore second floor reading, just heard two of the salesperson's dialogue. The woman said: "I have a guest in the morning, asked if there is a complete set of" Book Road complete. The man replied without hesitation: The Fat Man has the one surnamed Wang. Call him. "Another time, a museum librarian, to find the Chinese bookstore manager, want to match two shelves of Japanese archaeological album, the manager very readily told him to find Wang Yu." To this day, Wang Yu only visited Japan once. How did he do all this? His own experience is mainly technical, such as to fully understand the needs of customers, and find a good source. But as his friend, I want to look for the reason from the non technical level. My conclusion can be summed up to two points. First, it is extremely enthusiastic about making money. Making money for business is a great pleasure for Wang Yu. What you like to do is certainly easier to do well. There is a small anecdote can explain how money is to bring him joy: when he started to run old books, once spent 70,000 yuan to buy a batch of photos, not three days, the price of 120,000 yuan sold to a museum in the United States. At that time, Wang Yu had never made 50,000 dollars in such a short period. That night he was too excited to fall asleep, and woke up early the next morning to see his family still asleep and walk downstairs in the street Park alone. As he strolled through the clouds, he savored the success of the deal, almost to the dance of the hand. Think is beautiful, a inattentive, a bad fall. Break your knees and rip a long gash. He can not stand up in pain, look around, the ground did not have any gougou or brick pad, even a piece of banana peel could not find. He knew that the only reason was that he was deeply immersed in the joy of this successful transaction. Then he talked about it, and he patted his thigh and gave a rare laugh. Sometimes I think Wang Yu is much like the little miser Manolin in the comics "doll watching World" of the Argentine cartoonist. Manolin is a eight-year-old boy, the son of a grocery store owner, who sees money as the highest state of his life. On the one hand, he thinks money is beautiful, but it is simple, cunning and kind that belongs to children. What needs to be specifically stated is that, relative to the result of making money, Wang Yu more enjoyable in the making process itself. He does not pursue a famous car mansion, usually open a very ordinary dark blue pony "-Mazda, used to transport goods." He also has a dragon "-Citroen, not oneself buys, is others owes money, Ding to him." Pony ", Little Dragon" are very humble, and his poor driving technology is very good match. He often winds up at 50 kilometres an hour on an empty intercity highway. Every time he tried to struggle his wagon out of the parking lot, it was enough time for us to stand and gloat and finish the wholeZhongnanhai ".