On this day, after a fierce struggle, Gu Zhi and his parents finally won the opportunity to take a half-year leave from school.

Although the two adults of the Gu family are open-minded, they have a special persistence in learning.

That is the obsession imprinted in the hearts of that generation of Chinese people, going to school is greater than the sky, smashing pots and selling iron for children to go to school, is the real status quo of many poor families back then.

Especially in rural areas, in order to be able to provide for a college student, the older sister or older brother often goes out to work early, and then sends money home every year as tuition fees for younger siblings.

There are always people who prematurely provoke the burden of family and society, and going to school, which seems to be a very simple and inevitable thing in ordinary times, is a trench and regret that many people cannot jump over in their lifetime.

Consultant Zhi and Lin Zhi both had a hard time when they were children, so they had an obsession and awe for reading.

However, for Gu Zhi, he has already read a doctorate in the previous generation, the country has also been published, and the book has also been read.

When I was reborn, my body became younger, but the knowledge in my head was not reduced in the slightest.

There is no point in taking the college entrance examination again and going to university again.

His time is precious, and there are still many things he wants to do, so he can't afford to waste it.

In the end, he promised his parents that he would write two books that could be published normally and guaranteed sales within half a year, otherwise he would go to school obediently, which reluctantly made the two agree to his request.

It just so happens that writing the book itself is also part of his plan.

There are so many experiences and memories of past lives in my head, and those are incomparably precious knowledge, and it is meaningless to just put them in them.

What is the most profitable thing to sell in the 21st century?

Knowledge, of course!

You don't see Luo Ji Siwei has already changed from an Internet celebrity to a billionaire by operating his own public account to developing his own APP, surfing the Internet, and appearing on TV.

Gu Zhi will not take the route of logical thinking, because it will not help him enter the entertainment industry.

As for what book he wanted to write, he had already made up his mind.

In the next two days, Lin Zhi asked friends to contact Mr. Ma Ling in Hangzhou.

Gu Zhize has been trying to recall Ali's development process at home, and transcribed all the step-by-step process from weak to strong into the memo in detail.

Gu Zhi will definitely not hand over this memorandum directly to Ma Ling, otherwise if Ma Ling is allowed to master everything of Ali's development, he will be a meaningless figure to Ma Ling.

wrote such a memorandum just to let himself know more about Ali and ensure that when he and Ma Ling met, he had a bottom in his heart and something to say.

Gu Zhi understood that only in this way could he convince Ma Ling to agree to invest in Ali.

In the previous life, many Chinese people were very proud and happy that Huaguo was able to give birth to local Internet giants such as Ali and Penguin.

This is a top group founded by our Chinese people!

Even overseas, when I talk about these two giants with foreigners, I have a strong sense of identity and pride in my heart.

However, at the same time, some Chinese people who know a little about the growth history of these two giants have a lot of regrets in their hearts.

One of them is Alibaba, whose largest shareholder is not Huaguo, but SoftBank, a top conglomerate from the island nation.

SoftBank owns 34.4% of Alibaba's shares and is Alibaba's largest shareholder. As a result of its successful investment in Alibaba, SoftBank gained more than 2,900 times in 2014, and its founder, Sun Zhengyi, became the richest man in the island country at that time.

This is a permanent regret in the hearts of many Chinese investors, and it is also a stalk in the hearts of many Chinese people.

Investors are remorseful, if only they had invested in Ali!

But the actual situation is that when Ma Ling first raised funds, he took the initiative to reject many domestic investors.

In February 1999, Ma Ling and 18 co-founders scraped together 500,000 start-up funds to establish Alibaba. By the time it was maintained in July and August, 500,000 yuan had been spent completely, and he could only borrow money to pay wages to employees.

At that time, Ma Ling first met with an investor in SH, and the other party put forward harsh conditions, and finally Ma Ling gritted his teeth and gave up the investment. In subsequent negotiations, Mr. Ma rejected at least 38 investors, most of whom were from mainland China.

The reason for rejecting them was simple, the investment style was too rigid and not international enough, and at the same time skeptical of Alibaba's team and management.

Finally, through the introduction of Ma Ling's right-hand man, Cai Chongxin, Lin Xiaru, head of the private equity department of Goldman Sachs Group in Asia, brought Goldman Sachs and Fidelity Investment and other groups to inject $5 million in angel investment into Ali and successfully obtained 50% of Alibaba's shares!

After Goldman Sachs' investment, SoftBank only followed up with a $20 million investment in 2000, when Goldman Sachs and SoftBank were the two largest shareholders of Alibaba.

However, Goldman Sachs' private equity department eventually lost confidence in Huaguo New Technology and sold all its shares in Alibaba for $22 million in 2004, officially parting ways with Alibaba.

What Gu Zhi is doing now is to take the opportunity to cut off Hu and make angel investments in Ali before Goldman Sachs.

Therefore, he had to prepare well, lest he be rejected by Ma Ling.

Fortunately, he knows the general trend and clearly knows the direction of Ali's development, otherwise in this time and space, Ma Ling may reject 39 investors.

After spending a whole day transcribing the detailed history of the Alibaba Group, Gu Zhi added notes and revisions several times to ensure that he knew it completely, and then he hid the memorandum in the cabinet and locked it.

Then, the next day, in preparation for the meeting with Little Pony, he did the same, transcribed the penguin's message, and hid it in another box in the room.

These two memos are arguably his most valuable assets at the moment, and with such detailed preparations, he is confident that he will be able to take down Ali and Penguin in one fell swoop.

Today, Lin Zhi finally contacted Mr. Ma Tong through his partner, and also expressed his willingness to invest.

As a result, as soon as Ma Ling inquired, Lin Zhi was actually a businessman engaged in the garment industry, and he was immediately ready to directly reply and refuse her investment.

But Ali's money is almost gone, the wages of employees are about to be paid, and the 500,000 start-up capital may bottom out at any time.

In order to be responsible for his company and the hard-working employees, Ma Ling thought about it again and again, thought about it for a total of three minutes, and finally decided to meet Lin Zhi.

On June 19, 1999, Lin Zhi and Gu Zhi took a plane from China Southern Airlines, and after a two-and-a-half-hour flight, they finally arrived at Xiaoshan Airport in Hangzhou, which was 1,500 kilometers away.

Ma Ling personally came to the airport to greet him, and Gu Zhi met this future legend for the first time in reality.

From the moment they first met and greeted each other, Gu Zhi's eyes barely took off Ma Lingqi's small face until they left the airport.

"This is the father of the people of the whole country, a little thinner than what you watch on TV, but the temperament is really good. I wonder if everyone will call me Dad Gu in the future?"

Sitting in the Volkswagen rented by Ali Company, looking at the urban-rural junction outside that had just begun to be built, Gu Zhi always had an illusion of time and space disorder, and he couldn't help but feel a trace of trance in his heart.