The Hidden Dragon Hidden in the Sea Chapter 13 The Story of Ma Yun

Just when Wang Ziyan was sitting on the bamboo chair and wondering why he couldn't make an Alibaba by himself, Ma Yun, who was sitting in his office thousands of miles away in Hangzhou, suddenly felt shocked, feeling as if something important had been snatched away.

He stopped what he was busy doing, looked up blankly, and didn't find anything wrong.

After staring at the computer on the desk for a while, he stood up and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and opened it.

Feel the cold and wet wind pouring in from the window, and then feel more comfortable.

Looking at the street outside the window, and then at the buildings with distinct heights in the distance, Ma Yun had a headache.

He thought of everything he saw in country M, and thought of the Haibo computer he established because of all this.

I heard that after the Chinese New Year, Hangcheng Telecom will also make a website similar to its own website, and want to seize market share with itself.

They are robbing, they are bullying themselves for having no money and no connections.

Ma Yun, a native of Hangcheng, Zhejiang Province, is 33 years old.

Ma Yun's story begins in Hangzhou, a city with a population of nearly 10 million in Zhejiang Province in eastern China.

In 1964, Ma Yun was born in a not wealthy family in Hangzhou, and his father was a master of quyi, who presided over the daily work of the Zhejiang Quyi Association in the Zhejiang Federation of Literary and Art Circles.

As a child, he was skinny, with a small head and a small body, and often got into fights with classmates who laughed at his size.

He grew up under his father's fists and feet, and often got into fights with a group of kids, but not once for himself, all for his friends.

When he was in school, he never finished in the top three.

When she was 12 years old, Ma Yun bought a pocket radio, and since then she has listened to English radio every day and became interested in English.

When he was 13 years old, he was beaten with 13 stitches that year, and because he had too many demerits in the fight, he was forced to transfer to Hangcheng No. 8 Middle School.

At this time, he had become an English-speaking tour guide, riding a bicycle and taking foreigners all over Hangzhou.

After that, Ma Yun took the high school entrance examination and took two years to be admitted to an extremely ordinary high school, one of which only scored 31 points in mathematics.

At this time, it was just the period of reform and opening up, and there were more foreigners traveling to Hangzhou, and Ma Yun caught people by the West Lake to practice whenever he had the opportunity.

This will be of great benefit to his future development.

In 1982, Ma Yun took the college entrance examination for the first time and failed for the first time, scoring only 1 point in mathematics.

Ma Yun was full of frustration and a little discouraged.

After that, he went to a hotel with his cousin to apply for a waiter, but his cousin was hired, and he was rejected miserably, and the reason given by the boss was that Ma Yun was thin and short, and she was not good-looking.

Later, Ma Yun worked as a secretary and porter.

Ma Yun failed in the college entrance examination, and his father Ma Laifa saw that he was depressed and asked him to pedal three rounds to deliver books to the magazine.

In 1983, Ma Yun took the college entrance examination for the second time, but still did not succeed, even though this time he improved his math to 19 points.

Ma Yun's parents persuaded him to die of going to college and learn a trade, and then Ma Yun began to ride the dilapidated bicycle again, shuttling through the streets and alleys of Hangzhou.

But he never gave up his efforts, and still took the university entrance examination as his first goal at present, and worked hard with all his might.

In 1984, Ma Yun took the college entrance examination for the third time despite the strong opposition of her family, and this time she scored 89 points in mathematics, but the total score still belonged to the junior college line, which was still 5 points away from the undergraduate line.

His dream was to go to Peking University, but in the end he only went to Hangcheng Normal School.

Fortunately, just when Ma Yun was about to enter Hangzhou Normal University to study for a junior college, the school's English undergraduate major was not fully enrolled due to the short time it took to upgrade the capital.

As a result, Ma Yun, who had the best English score, was exceptionally promoted to a foreign language undergraduate major by Hangzhou Normal University, which was a big bargain.

After entering the university, because of his good English foundation and easy learning, he became a good student with excellent character and learning, and sat in the top five of the foreign language department with his excellent English.

In order to pass the free time, he entered the student union of the school, and later became the president of the student union until he sat in the position of chairman of the Hangzhou Student Federation.

1988 was an ordinary year.

This year, the huge grab on the Vientiane dredger gently grabbed the dam in the new channel of the canal.

In this year, Hangcheng Industrial Building was officially renamed Hangcheng Building, and opened to the outside world, mainly as a handicraft exhibition and sales center.

This year, in the context of the national business tide, due to the dual-track price system and the "downfall", the circulation system under the planned economy completely collapsed, and the subsequent price breakthrough failed, prices were out of control, and the economy fell into a sudden runaway of control.

This year, a farmer in Xihu District used a walkie-talkie.

In this year, Hangzhou began to issue urban real estate certificates, and the first batch of house owners received certificates.

This year, a man named Ma Yun graduated from Hangcheng Normal University and entered Hangcheng and began to flutter.

Ma Yun graduated from university and was assigned to teach foreign languages at Hangcheng Institute of Electronic Industry, and was the only undergraduate student in his class who was assigned to teach at the university.

This is his first job, and the salary is about 110 yuan a month.

This year, Ma Yun married a younger sister named Zhang Ying, and the two were college classmates.

This woman, who only looks at her talent and not her appearance, has become Ma Yun's life partner and career partner.

The university teacher did not have to sit in class, and he was not willing to be lonely, so he used his spare time to find many part-time jobs: setting up the first English corner in Hangzhou by the West Lake, and working as a tour guide for foreign tourists.

In 1992, Ma Yun and his friends established the earliest professional translation agency in Hangzhou, "Haibo Translation Agency", and took over the translation business in their spare time.

At that time, the business was very difficult, and the monthly turnover was more than 200 yuan, but the rent alone was 700 yuan.

In the first year, Ma Yun went to Yiwu and Guangzhou with his pockets to buy goods, sell gifts and pack flowers, and used the money to support the translation agency for 3 years before he began to break even.

After a few years of wandering, he didn't make much money, but his super ability to communicate in activities brought Ma Yun a lot of fame, and he could be said to have friends all over Hangzhou, and he even wore the glorious title of "Top Ten Outstanding Young Teachers in Hangzhou".

In 1992, Ma Yun had a son and became a father.

In 1995, he was entrusted by the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Communications to collect a debt in country M.

So, he packed up and ran to Los Angeles as a translator in country M, the famous city of angels.

Everything that follows is like the plot of a Hollywood movie: a businessman from country M wants to pay his debts, so he pulls out a gun and confines Ma Yun in his room for two days.

The result, of course, was that the money did not reach a cent, and the order failed.

Then, a terrified Jack Ma flew to Seattle to find a friend, Bill, who was a foreign teacher in Hangzhou from Seattle.

In Seattle, Bill led Jack Ma on a tour of VBN, Seattle's first ISP company, where he first came into contact with the Internet without knowing anything about computers.

As soon as he learned how to surf the Internet, he thought that he should use the Internet to help Chinese companies become familiar to the world.

He came up with the idea of making an online advertisement for his translation agency, and at 10 a.m. he sent the ad online, and by 12 noon he received six emails from country M, country D, and country Wa, saying that this was the first web page they had seen about China.

"There's a lot of business to be done here!" he realized at the time that the Internet was a gold mine.

The nightmare debt collection journey is over, and he returns to Hangtown in disgrace, with only $1 and a crazy thought on his back.

Jack Ma's idea is to gather the information of Chinese companies, express them to the United States, and have the designers make web pages and publish them to the world, and the profits come from the fees charged to the companies.

In March 1995, after returning to China, after careful consideration, he resolutely resigned from his position as a university teacher admired by everyone, took out 6 or 7,000 yuan by himself, borrowed more than 10,000 yuan from his sister and brother-in-law, and scraped together 20,000 yuan to start a business.

In April 1995, Ma Yun established Hangcheng Haibo Computer Service Co., Ltd., China's first Internet business company. The company has only three employees, namely Ma Yun, Ma Yun's wife Zhang Ying and He Yibing.

In May 1995, the China Yellow Pages was officially launched, and Ma Yun began to do business from friends around her.

At this time, there are still 3 months before China can access the Internet.

In July 1995, China Yellow Pages created a website for the Zhejiang Provincial Foreign Propaganda Office to publicize the province's economy and culture on the Internet, called the "Golden Pigeon Project".

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And now, he doesn't know where his future path lies.

Although he didn't know what he would do in the future, he now had to think about what he would do next.

Although what Hangzhou Telecom did was not authentic, he knew that the other party was competing with him under the premise of fair competition, and he couldn't say anything.

Now what I have to consider is whether to carry it hard with the other party or compromise.

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In Wang Ziyan's understanding, Ma Yun is undoubtedly a legendary figure, and there is never a shortage of thrilling and bizarre stories in Ma Yun's ups and downs in life.

In a sense, Ma Yun's entrepreneurial history is the history of the development of China's Internet.

He has repeatedly started his own business, suffered repeated setbacks, and seven years of entrepreneurship paved Alibaba, until Alibaba emerged, which made his fabulous life.

Wang Ziyan didn't know much about the reasons behind these things, nor did he understand the hardships paid by this big guy, he only knew that he wanted to do this thing.

If Wang Ziyan hadn't intervened, Ma Yun might have been one of the most dazzling people in the whole world. In the previous life, some people may not know the president of country M, and some people may not know the president of China, but everyone knows Ma Yun and knows this person who changed the world.

Now, after Wang Ziyan stepped in, Ma Yun's future doesn't know what will happen.

As for what Mr. Ma will think at that time, Wang Ziyan said, that has a chicken feather relationship with him?

As Teacher Ma said, today is cruel, tomorrow is even more cruel, and the day after tomorrow is beautiful, but most people die tomorrow night.

Wang Ziyan firmly believes that he can survive until the day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow.

So, he's going to lay out from now on.