Chapter 659: Let's Talk About Social Enterprises Again
"Charity now is about developing the economy as much as possible, creating more jobs, and letting technology change our lives, as well as changing other people in the world!" Zhou Shi, the two continued to exchange issues about charity.
Economic growth, technological progress, and social modernization are certainly the goals pursued by human beings, but in the end they are only means, and human development and human welfare are the ends. Philanthropy takes into account the issues of efficiency and fairness, and effectively promotes the common progress of all members of society, thus having a positive impact on social stability. Warren Buffett said patiently.
"I don't deny the significance of charity, but the only way to do it is not the only way!" Zhou Shi
"So will you donate your wealth?" Buffett asked directly
"I ...... Probably not!At least not at the moment. Zhou Shi hesitated to say this
"And what are you going to do?" Buffett
"I ......," Zhou Shi thought slowly, "I want to establish a social enterprise, a global high-tech social enterprise." ”
"Social enterprise?" Buffett certainly knows this model, which is a new economic form and public welfare model that began in the seventies and eighties, combining successful business models with social goals, combining profits with public welfare, and innovating public welfare with entrepreneurial spirit, which is called a social enterprise. The practice of social enterprises around the world is surging, which not only breaks the welfare deadlock, but also breaks the dilemma of third-party dependence on non-profit organizations' funds, and opens up a new path for the sustainable development of non-profit organizations and public welfare undertakings.
"I plan to set up a social enterprise with a scale of more than 10 billion to 100 billion US dollars, and maintain the bottom line of scientific ethics while developing science and technology. At the same time, we should find ways to deal with the huge negative impact of scientific and technological development on society. "Zhou Shi
"Oh, do you have a goal?" Buffett said noncommittally, feeling that Zhou Shi was bragging.
He is also the majority shareholder of Friends.com, Guoke, the majority shareholder of Baidu, the largest search company in China, and Alibaba, the largest e-commerce company in China, and the controlling shareholder of NetSuite, a SaaS company in the United States. At the same time, it has a series of products such as Time Pay, Time Music, aze map, Chrome browser, etc. "Zhou Shi
"The price to make a commercial company into a social enterprise will probably not be small, do the other shareholders of Time agree?"
"I believe that money will not be an issue in the end. "Zhou Shi
"What are you going to do?" Buffett
"I don't know the specific approach, but the company under Time Holdings must not be the most targeted by commercial interests, maybe I will let its ownership and management be separated, maybe the ownership will be put into a trust enterprise ......" Zhou Shi
"It's interesting, are you sure there's a chance of success?"
"Of course, I'm not going to do it for nothing. "Zhou Shi
"I called Bill over and we discussed it, I'm not good at high-tech companies!"
"No problem, I'm not talking about playing, although the idea is just a prototype, but I believe it will be done. "Zhou Shi
The question of which is more attractive to the head of a country or the richest man is different for different people, but the difference between the two seems to be very large, but they are both different paths taken in order to fight for the right to distribute social resources, and they are two different manifestations. At least Zhou Shi thinks so, a person's wealth depends not only on the wealth he has, but also on the social resources he masters. There is no doubt that Zhou Shi wants to give up ownership and retain control this time.
Time Holdings has always been a Chinese company, rather than a number of relatively independent subsidiaries like Friends.com. But because of this, his development was hindered by many things, both explicitly and implicitly. At this time, the time cloud is actually not much different from Amazon's cloud computing in technology, time Android, time payment, etc. are very good products, but the development of this high-tech will naturally have a lot of hostility. Time has a narrow path to further development in the United States. A few years later, when Trump came to power, against the background of an unprecedented trade war, could time be spared? For a long time in the future, China and the United States may compete for hegemony in the world, and contradictions and conflicts are almost inevitable.
There is also the fact that if Zhou Shi controls the Internet ecology of Huaxia alone, and has the wealth of the country, does he have a natural original sin. In Chinese history, the richest man did not have a good death, whether it was Shen Wansan or Hu Xueyan...... How could an official with unlimited power tolerate such an existence in the country? Besides, after killing He Shen and fattening Jiaqing, in extreme cases, there will always be people who will figure out the accusations of fabrication, and many good people are likely to share Zhou Shi's wealth together. Not to mention the mercenaries and other armed forces, compared with the United Nations hooligans, all armaments are illusory and even more original sin.
Giving up the wealth of Time Holdings, in exchange for its greater living space, and firmly grasping its control during his lifetime, this is a very cost-effective thing in Zhou Shi's opinion. Even this goal is difficult to achieve, and the complexity of power struggles makes it sometimes extravagant. However, doing so can at least guarantee him the status of the richest man in China and even the richest man in the world.
A few days later, Zhou Shi and Bill Gaizi and other wealthy people in the United States who are keen on charity had a lot of exchanges, and once again felt a lot of goodwill. Although I don't know if Zhou Shi will do it or not, whether he can succeed, Bill Gaizi and others are more willing to believe him. This is different from domestic business owners, most of them have no confidence in their employees, doubt, and do everything possible to squeeze the intelligence of employees, the popularity of DingTalk and the complaints of netizens are very telling.
Most of today's social enterprises are small and medium-sized companies, and there are some enterprises in China that are vassals and say that they are social enterprises, but there is a conflict between social enterprises and commercial interests. Judging by Meituan's behavior, they are still 108,000 miles away from social enterprises.
In order to promote the social enterprise of Time Holdings, Zhou Shi stopped transferring Amazon's shares to the family trust, and kept it to exchange with Galaxy Capital in the future, although it is his wealth, but there are still differences between companies and companies, and the interests of the company's employees are also different.
"Why do you want to promote Time Holdings into a social enterprise so soon?" Wang Xirui and Li Ying looked at Zhou Shi puzzled, how could they not have thought that they had just said it a few days ago, and now they will start to implement it, this efficiency is too high!
"The sooner the better, things will deteriorate after a long time, I may change my mind, and the effect is not as good as it is now!" Zhou Shi, now he is just preparing, and he may have to wait until after 2018 for him to really do it. Take a hundred plating to read the latest chapter of "The Rebirth of the Post-80s Legend Claw Book House" for free for the first time.