What is important about worth and freedom

Zhang always remember that night he and Xie Shilan dialogue. At that time, Zhang also Alibaba do senior manager, Xie Shiming is his immediate boss. At the same time they are buddies, living in the same dormitory.

He asked me if Alibaba dead what would happen, I said Alibaba died at least you are still alive, you have to continue your life. "Alibaba at that time has got two rounds of financing, Xie Shiju himself All the money earned was also thrown in, and it was worth the pricey price. Prior to this, Ma Yun, a former colleague of the MOFTEC, and Ma Yun started his own business, died three times.

It was around 2001, when the situation in Alibaba was a bit difficult. A year later, Zhang dumped his resignation from Alibaba, and Xie Shih-huang still persisted.

Almost a decade past, Alibaba has been listed in Hong Kong, Xie Shih-huang is now Alibaba Investment Manager, according to the stock conversion, worth 500 million US dollars. Zhang Do has done two companies, in 2009 opened a new company, is in its infancy.

That restless person

Zhang fight into Alibaba in 2000, can be considered veteran Alibaba employees. Had originally in Alibaba, his job number is 126, that is Alibaba's global number, if at home, he must be within a hundred. Until now, he remembers how he had been in Alibaba.

In the early 1990s, Zhang Dau, who just graduated from college, resigned from the work of the Materials Bureau and opened up an information consulting company. Through dial-up Internet access, he copied the prices of the London Stock Exchange's cotton and steel from the Xinhua News Agency, faxed them to local businesses, or printed them in booklets for a fee of 5,000 to 8,000 a year. Only in this business, he quickly into the well-to-do, bought a laptop, a large motorcycle and mobile phones, living in the local very comfortable days.

Later, he started a wine business. His hometown produces a liquor and smuggles it to foreign countries on a large scale every year, but no one is officially exported. The director of the brewery promised to give Zhang Dou a wholesale price of $ .75 per bottle. When he fought for a search on the Internet, he found that a bottle of wine sold in the United States would cost 30 to 40 U.S. dollars. He started to sell liquor to foreign countries through the Internet and spent more than a dozen of yuan on delivering samples abroad. However, he finally found that the business simply could not do it because the consumption of liquor required strong cultural characteristics and he could not open the market .

Based on his own experience of selling liquor, he wrote an article entitled "Making the Internet a Commercial Spy", which was published in the then Computer World magazine and left his e-mail address. Alibaba then a person in charge contacted him, so the two exchanged for some time.

2000 was the hottest time for the Internet. Under the editor-in-chief of Computerworld, Zhang dreamed up what it was like a venture and knew how to write a business plan. He came to Beijing and wanted to work in this metropolis Amoy a gold. The editor gave Zhang a couple of votes, one of which was addressed by Ma Yun at ITC. In this way, the grassroots youth who grew up in the third-tier cities met the founder of Alibaba, which is famous in China in the future.

"I was impressed with Jack Ma before Maggie's General Manager in China called me twice." After the speech, we all went around changing business cards and Zhang Dou also went around. "I said one sentence, I said I always Anhui is Ma, my name is Zhang Dou, who talk to you who he said I heard about you, he told me about you. I said that we talk about it? "In the International Trade Cafe , Two people sit down, "Ma Yun said why not come to me? Come on, let's work together." So, in April 2000, Zhang Dou ran from Anhui to Hangzhou, Alibaba to become a business development staff, and Alibaba earned the first money.

Alibaba was doing e-commerce solutions, Zhang fight to find Ma Yun's home Shengzhou, 70% of the world's ties are produced there. He found the management agency tie town, persuade each other to build an online mall in Alibaba, Alibaba earned 260,000 yuan.

Although Alibaba started to make money in 2002, the situation is still not very good. "There are three kinds of people in Alibaba, one is a land-buns like Lu Zhaoxi and the guerrilla origin; the other is the returnees; the third is a professional manager." He felt that with his qualifications, it was hard to develop in Alibaba, After a comprehensive trade-off, he eventually left Alibaba.

"At that time my boss was Shirley Wong, a joke, he is the founder, how can I not replace it."

With the team or to start a business

After resigning in 2002, Zhang Dou as the main founder, made a rich media advertising company. "That's the annoying stuff that annoys you when you open Sina and pop up in the lower right corner." He was the first person in China to be a rich media ad, and that year was catching up with Zhang Yimou's filming of martial arts films "Heroes", Zhang Dou They cut out many of the "Heroes" flowers, sticking ads on the front and making an instant start. Now this audio-visual media has been advertising throughout the network, open the computer, many sites pop-up in the lower right corner of a "small TV."

Zhang Dou was in Beijing at that time, and the other two were in charge of technology in Shanghai. Zhang Dou was responsible for working with companies such as Sina to talk about cooperation and running the market. At that time, he did not even have an office in Beijing. Sina was still in the modern city at that time. Zhang often ran there and became familiar with the modern city.

"I was carrying a laptop at the end of the coffee shop online, and then went upstairs to talk to Sina cooperation." In 2005, rich media ads to do more than one billion, Zhang Dou had to leave, he said he was right This kind of business is a little disappointing: "I do not see that, I think it is a lucrative trading, a small business." Although the founder, but he did not get anything from the company.

Subsequently, Zhang Dou and several others made an Internet TV company, for two or three years, the middle of a VC venture came into contact with the other side and he signed a 10 million investment agreement, but investors do not want him and then PPLive Merger, because investors think his technology does not work, PPLive's two founders are more emphasis on technology, the user is relatively weak, both can complement each other. "Later, I think this is not a good choice, and I feel very angry, you have signed an agreement with me, and then you come to blackmail me, very uncomfortable, we did not do." He in 2009 and a few A friend re-founded a company, start from scratch.

Shirley Huang's development path is this.

In 1996, after a fortunate opportunity to leave state-owned enterprises to choose to work at Difun Communications Co., Ltd. Xie Shih-huang heard about the "China Yellow Pages" made by Jack Ma. After that, during several encounters with Jack Ma, he felt that Ma and his previous contacts with the management The layers are very different. "His demeanor, his way of thinking and his philosophy are very different, and even walking is different from man, taking calls for a while in Chinese, while in English, in a hurry." According to Xie Shiliu, Jack Ma is worth approaching and following . In 1997, he gave up the company's generous treatment, following Ma came to Beijing to work in the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation. Two years later, Ma decided to leave the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation to start his own business. Xie Shiu-huang could have chosen Sina, Sohu and other portals, but once again he chose to follow Ma and become one of the 18 founding members of Alibaba.

Xie Shhuang is Zhang Dou's boss, responsible for Alibaba foreign business cooperation and sales. In the company's most difficult time, his MSN often hang a sentence: the end of the month, who gave me ten thousand yuan I am willing to go streaking Huaihai Road. He said he was really impulsive at the time because the company would only close if it did not make money. Alibaba finally made a big breakthrough after SARS and landed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2007. This year and Zhang Dou dwelling a dorm buddy child, is now Alibaba Investment Group's general manager, worth 500 million US dollars.

"I am 30 years old to 40 years old is spent in Alibaba, which I am full of gratitude .I think people should choose those you feel a sense of belonging team, you think there are prospects for future development of small companies, spotted Just hold to the end, there must be a bright future! "

More than Xiehuang Huang, Alibaba early staff, and now have a very good family. Zhang Dou said that some time ago he was a programmer in Alibaba to Beijing, the other is now Alipay's vice president. The two chose to eat in the middle of their place of residence. "I say what are you doing? He said I was recruiting at Peking University, Tsinghua University. I said how to recruit? He said to come to the stage to say. I said you used to say that the unspeakable, now dared to speak .He said I had three Taiwan server, now in charge of three thousand. "

Jin Jianhang, Alibaba's senior vice president, turned out to be Alibaba's PR. Zhang Dou said: "This buddy is now worth 200 million U.S. dollars." He was originally an associate editor of the official newspaper of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Economy of the People's Republic of China. At the time, he was a cadre of deputy department level and resolutely confused with Ma Yun. "This buddy is very cattle ×, if now find the richest reporters, almost him."

He was recruited in Suzhou sales, is now worth tens of millions, then their monthly salary of only a thousand dollars a year, when he brought a little girl, now in possession of 3,000 sales.

I am the founder

"I do not regret, I am the supreme person, and these same colleagues, we are likely to afford the yacht, but I will tell you that this is what I earn, and you are mixed with Ma, which Maybe they drive a BMW and I live in my hometown to buy a small house, but I'm not mentally losing any of them. "Zhang Dou and Alibaba have many colleagues who have been so ridiculed them.

"You say they have no value? Sure, without them these efforts, Alibaba can not achieve such a result? But this is the character of the decision, I just do not want to be the second child."

Zhang Dou created Yin Yue Taiwan, he thinks this is a website for users to provide high-quality music videos. Zhang Dou judge, with the continuous powerful mobile phones, MV users can bring more stereo audio-visual enjoyment. In addition to selling advertising, its added value may be much more than MP3, it is likely to leveraging music in this huge market.

"It really is a big market of billions of dollars and nobody has any objection to this idea, but we do not know where this is going.You would ask me now, and I do not know yet, but I can give it a try."

His name card, read "founder" three words, Zhang Dou is very valued: "I have no job, but this company is what I created, which is a bit proud of the ingredients in. To some extent, Entrepreneurship success is not the most important, it is important to understand this process. If successful, it must have been all happy, but all the success is also temporary. "

"A lot of them now not only understand me but also envy me because they make money over there, but what else is there for money? They're too old, they have no direction and no own team. Hard to work, their gang has no longer dare, this is human inertia. "Zhang Dou said. Although those colleagues are working now, this is not the same as doing their own thing: "I can do it myself, and I can go according to my own thinking. I even say the challenge I face , The pressure they are facing, and these things may also be desirous to them.When they go to work, the pressure, danger and excitement in the middle are definitely not as exciting as I do.

Entrepreneurship is hard, the most impressed when the beginning of 2009 just started a business, one night, ten o'clock, he is already very tired, or open the company's Web site to see if there is no message. There are netizens in the company's suggestion in the message, let him suddenly excited, "he said in a message, I really sin, only to find your site! Oh, I have no comments, you are good, do not die. Pleased and jumped up and down, sat down and wrote him a 300-word reply. "