1000 hours, this is the chairman of Alibaba's board of directors Ma Yun estimated his 2018 'fly' in the air cumulative time.
Near November, this is one of the busiest time nodes of Alibaba Group in a year. But for Ma Yun, the head of the company, the busy state has never been interrupted since he founded Alibaba.
From 1999 to 2018, 19 years of time, Alibaba jumped from the entrepreneurial team in the residential area of Hangzhou to an Internet company with a market value of 100 billion US dollars. In the process of reform and opening up and China's digitization, the growth rate of Ma Yun and Ali Marvel at the world.
But in Ma Yun’s view, everything has just begun.
Alibaba, opening the door to the Internet treasure
In 1999, Ma Yun, who had resigned for more than four years, bought Alibaba's domain name. At that time, Alibaba in people's minds was just a fictional character in a story in The Arabian Nights. But Ma Yun and his partners I plan to use e-commerce to open the door to Internet treasures.
This is Ma Yun's second venture. Like many private entrepreneurs at the beginning of the venture, he faces pressures from finance, technology, and information. But compared with many entrepreneurs, Ma Yun is different. He The Internet field to be developed is unknown and strange.
In fact, as early as around 1995, Ma Yun had already noticed the tremendous changes that the Internet would bring to the world and the business opportunities it contained.
According to Ma Yun’s memories, he searched the webpage in the United States and could not find any goods from China. Therefore, he was determined to use the Internet to build a bridge to enable China’s cheap and good quality products to reach customers and consumers all over the world.
'Our job is to introduce China's trade information to the world.' This is what Ma Yun said when he introduced his entrepreneurial project to the relevant departments in Beijing. But he finally touched the wall.
At that time, there was a video of Ma Yun’s taxi in Beijing. Ma Yun said in the voice-over. 'Everything has to start from the beginning. It doesn’t matter if you fail. I told at least one concept. I am unsuccessful, someone will succeed. At the time, Ma Yun’s eyes were full of tears.
But 19 years later, the concept envisioned at that time became a reality under the testimony of a group of data: peak online payment computing power of more than 250,000 per second, 2017 'double eleven' 168.2 billion yuan Transaction record, AliExpress (International version of Taobao) overseas buyers accumulated more than 150 million...
From personal online shopping to corporate cloud computing services, from Internet finance to boosting digital government, from business innovation to cutting-edge scientific research, today, Alibaba employs more than 80,000 people and has a global network of businesses.
Entrepreneurs are the beneficiaries and promoters of reform and opening up
Thanks to the rise of China's manufacturing industry since the reform and opening up, the improvement of Internet communication infrastructure, the development of finance, logistics and other fields, the Internet technology enterprises represented by Alibaba have developed rapidly.
Looking back at personal entrepreneurship and the entire process of reform and opening up, Ma Yun said that reform and opening up have created our generation of entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs are the beneficiaries of reform and opening up, but also become the promoters of further deepening reforms and expanding openness. Spirit. Entrepreneurs should focus on the interests of their home countries, focus on future interests, and focus on social interests.
'Let the world have no difficult business', this is the beginning of Alibaba's establishment, Ma Yun and the founder established the company's mission, and he is also convinced that Alibaba's greatest value: to bring services and help to China and even the global SMEs.
In September 2014, Alibaba successfully listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Instead of group executives, it invited eight ordinary people to be the ringers of the company's listing. Among them are Taobao shopkeepers, couriers, network models... Therefore, Ma Yun once explained that they represent Alibaba and represent themselves.
The tide of reform and opening up has promoted entrepreneurial innovation. The enterprises represented by Alibaba have profoundly changed the Chinese people's food, clothing, housing, and employment.
According to the data, as of the end of September 2018, Ali Taobao, Tmall platform registered sellers have reached tens of millions; cumulatively more than 20,000 overseas brands opened the Chinese online market; Alibaba's ant gold clothing total of 11.71 million Small and micro enterprises and individual operators provide operating loans. Among them, more than 4.6 million farmers and three farmers have received loan support.
The future is beyond imagination
At the beginning of the business, Ma Yun and Alibaba's partners set a goal to let this company survive for 102 years. Ma Yun believes that the world is always full of opportunities, and the future is always worth looking forward to.
Because of the future, Alibaba is still on the road of innovation: On the urban road of 420 square kilometers in Hangzhou, the signal lights of more than 1,300 intersections are optimized by the brain of Alibaba ET City, emergency vehicles can pass quickly; in Kuala Lumpur - The first overseas electronic world trading platform (eWTP) set up a city. Through the cooperation of Alibaba's rookie network and Malaysia Customs, the average customs clearance time of goods was shortened from 1 day to 3 hours.
Because I believe in the future, Ma Yun is full of opportunities everywhere, not only in China, but also in countries and regions along the 'Belt and Road'. Around the world, this is still an era full of opportunities. Ma Yun always believes that Alibaba's greatest value is not Profit, not in scale, but how much value can be created for the world, how many problems to solve for the future.