This is no ordinary small company, with a wide network of contacts and a big plan. Ebay is jointly invested by American and China high-tech venture capital funds. It is said that the registered capital at that time was as high as 29 million US dollars, equivalent to 200 million RMB. However, the actual start-up capital of the company is not so much, only the $400,000 provided by First Boston Bank and Wantong Group for Yi Bei as "seed capital".
The company is mainly engaged in e-commerce, and 1999 is a year when Internet e-commerce is in full swing. Whether it's NASDAQ in the United States or A-shares in China, as long as they are touched with a little network concept, their share prices will soar.
The company has two founders, and Tan. Both of them are Shanghainese and graduated from Harvard Business School in the United States, and they are in the same session-1999. You are not mistaken. You founded Yi Bei as soon as you left school, and managed a fund of over 1 billion dollars at a young age. People are so awesome.
Speaking of this, we might as well talk about some anecdotes of the founder first.
There are more than 800 graduates from Harvard Business School 1999, of which only 12 are from China, and two of them founded Yi Bei, so objectively speaking, these people are really not ordinary people.
Shao Yibo, born in 1973, is known as "mathematical prodigy" and "living computer". When I was four years old. His father taught him to calculate with playing cards, which laid a good mathematical foundation. From primary school to middle school, I am a monitor, a good student and an absolute top student every year. In the first day of junior high school, he won the first prize in the first "Golden Cup" junior mathematics invitational tournament. Since then, he has been out of control and won the first prize in the national mathematics competition for more than ten times in a row. The name of "big-headed prodigy" has resounded through the mathematics circle.
But things are often not satisfactory. 1990, Shao Yibo 17 years old, studying in Grade One of the Second Affiliated Middle School of East China Normal University. On a whim, he decided to go to the United States to study in universities, and all the applicants were famous schools such as Harvard University. People around you are not optimistic about this. People think it is impossible because there has never been such a case before. However, Shao Yibo successfully jumped to Harvard University, thus becoming the first person in New China to enter Harvard University on a full scholarship.
Dare to do what others think impossible and try to make it successful. This is Shao Yibo.
When he graduated from undergraduate course, he graduated from the "highest honor society" with excellent results. After graduation, I was recruited by McKinsey and Boston, the two best consulting companies in America. After working in Boston for two years, he was recognized as one of the "best employees" of the company, and the company invested $90,000 to help him come to Harvard Business School to study for an MBA again. After graduating from MBA, he returned to China and founded Yi Bei.
These are the portrayal of Shao Yibo's character and ability, and also laid a good foundation for his entrepreneurial road.
Tan 1972 was born in Shanghai, but his ancestral home is Tianjin. His parents are architects and he grew up with his grandparents. Tan's grandparents are teachers, but they are definitely not ordinary teachers, because in many articles, they all use this sentence to explain their influence on her: she thinks that apart from being lucky, her grandparents are indifferent to her ambitions, and her positive personality has a great influence on her. Her grandmother was a rare law girl in China in 1930s.
Please note that not everyone can say that they are indifferent to their ambitions. The premise of saying this is that you should be ambitious and have something that doesn't matter. As some people say, I don't like money, so you have to be as rich as brother Ma Yun before you can say such a "forced" word.
Through some searching, I saw a news about "Yuan's Love Fund in Xiuning Middle School", which stated that Tan contributed to the establishment of the fund, saying that the fund was named after Tan's grandfather, a professor studying in France at China Normal University and Zhang yuanshi county, the first graduate of Xiuning Middle School. A professor studying in France, the first graduate of Xiuning Middle School, summed up the characteristics of Grandfather Tan.
Continue to dig up relevant information, we can see the situation of this old gentleman in Zhang Yuan. Zhang Yuanshi, a native of Xiuning, Anhui Province, graduated from the Department of Physics of National Central University and studied at the University of Paris for two years from 65438 to 0927. He has served as a professor at Anhui University, National Chongqing University, Private Hujiang University, National Tongji University, National Guangxi University, Professor at Hunan National Normal University, Head of the Department of Physics, and Professor at the Department of Physics of East China Normal University. He is the author of Theoretical Mechanics.
I believe that just one book of Theoretical Mechanics is enough to make many college students "want to die". I think Mr. Zhang's strength has been fully proved, and we don't need to dig deep. It is this family background that gives Tan a good environment for growing up and provides a lot of vital information for her to choose her life path.
At her age, I don't know what Harvard University is like at all, even Harbin Buddhist College, so it is impossible for me to have the idea and pursuit of going abroad to Harvard. This is the difference between people.
Although Tan is not a child prodigy, like him, he has many extraordinary achievements:
From 65438 to 0990, Tan was admitted to Shanghai Jiaotong University with the third place in Shanghai Science. 1994, she was hired by McKinsey & Company, and became one of the first two consultants directly hired by the company in China, and later became one of the best consultants of McKinsey & Company in Greater China. Her excellent performance prompted McKinsey to stop recruiting undergraduate graduates from abroad to China and start recruiting domestic graduates. This is a person who has changed the view of an internationally renowned enterprise on college students in China.
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