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Behind Ma Yun is a Japanese entrepreneur who invested tens of millions of dollars when Alibaba was founded. Who is he? Why does he have such a unique vision?
Behind Ma Yun is a Japanese entrepreneur who invested tens of millions of dollars when Alibaba was founded. Who is he? Why does he have such a unique vision?
Under the leadership of Jack Ma, Alibaba has become the dominant e-commerce platform in China, with more than 700 million Taobao and Alipay users. Ma Yun's huge business empire has won the title of the richest man in China for many times.
However, who would have thought that Ma Yun was still a "gangster" who had just graduated from college and had not yet stepped into society? Alibaba was not smooth sailing in the early days of its establishment, and it also suffered many setbacks in financing.
Since few entrepreneurs are willing to invest in a company with no future vision, Ma Yun found Masayoshi Son, then the chairman of Softbank in Japan.
At the meeting, Ma Yun only said two words to him, which made his son willing to invest 20 million dollars in Ma Yun's project. The first sentence Ma Yun said was: "There are many investors in the world, but I only have one Ma Yun." The second sentence is: "Alibaba is my life, and I will protect my life."
Such a powerful statement made his son see a kind of confidence and a kind of responsibility from his eyes. He feels that young people who are ambitious now will have a bright future.
The result didn't disappoint him. In the past ten years, Alibaba has developed rapidly, and the funds invested by Sun Zhengyi have made Softbank Group the largest shareholder of Alibaba. With the listing of 20 14 Alibaba, the investment amount of Softbank has increased by nearly 4000 times. Is the success of Sun Zhengyi's investment due to his own knowledge, or will a blind cat bite a mouse to death?
1957, Masayoshi Son was born in an ordinary family in Saga Prefecture, Japan. His family is not only poor, but also discriminated against by others. Maybe you want to know why neighbors discriminate against him and his family. They are rare in the Korean-American world in Japan. Koreans don't know them, and the Japanese don't look directly at them.
There are many children at home, and many people eat more. The son's parents try their best to make money, especially his father. He has held several jobs and tried different fields. When son Masayoshi Son went to school, his father wanted to open a coffee shop and spend money to decorate it. But business is not satisfactory, and few customers come to drink coffee. If this continues for a long time, he will not only be unable to make up for the funds, but also continue to lose money, which makes him a headache.
Later, he came up with the idea of reselling cheap coffee beans to change the price, but the idea failed, which made his father very depressed. At that time, although Masayoshi son was still in school, he was endowed with an economic mind and secretly vowed that his helpless father would never be allowed to lose money like this.
He figured out a way to sneak into the print shop the next morning, print thousands of coffee coupons and distribute them on the street. Finally, it worked. Unexpectedly, my father's coffee shop business immediately became hot and there were more and more customers. My son is very satisfied.
After accumulating a certain amount of funds, Son's father opened a game hall. Unexpectedly, luck is not as bad as before, and life at home has finally improved.
In addition to doing business, the Sun family also pays special attention to the education of children. Parents believe that no matter how poor the family is, there is no need for poor education. Based on this, no matter how poor his family was, Sun and his brothers received a good education, which laid a certain knowledge reserve for his future career.
When I was in high school, my son met Fujita, the most important person in his life. Fujita is an influential person. He was not only the first businessman who introduced McDonald's to Japan, but also the author of Jewish Business Law.
He told him that if he wanted to break through his own world, he had to study in the United States, preferably computers, because the American market at that time needed a large number of IT talents, which was a sunrise industry. After hearing this, Masayoshi Son agreed and planned his own trip to America.
After bidding farewell to his parents, Masayoshi Son went to the United States to attend high school alone. He was only 16 when he left that year. After he came to the American language school, he studied hard to make himself strong.
After entering the university, he set himself a small goal: to earn10 billion yen. Unexpectedly, at the age of 19, he earned the first bucket of gold in his life.
That year, according to his interest and education, he invented acoustic electronic translation. The patent was taken away by Chairman Sharp (Sasaki) and sold for 40 million yen. According to the international exchange rate, the transaction price of this patent exceeds $6,543,800+0,000. 198 1 year, Sun Zhengyi made a decisive decision and used the money to start his own company, which is now Softbank Group.
Under the leadership of Masayoshi Son, Softbank has invested in various small and medium-sized enterprises and projects, including some well-known websites in China, such as Alibaba, Sina, Ctrip and Netease. The popularity of these websites made Sun Zhengyi rich overnight.
1994, Softbank was officially listed, and Sun Zhengyi's net assets once exceeded $65,438 billion. In 2000, he even became the richest man in the world. Due to the rapid growth of Softbank stock that day, Son surpassed Bill Gates and became the richest man in the world.
But one day he became the richest man, and since then, he has never risen to that position. Although his investment in China is very successful, his projects abroad are not smooth.
65438-0996 invested in Yahoo, once holding 35%, becoming the largest shareholder of Yahoo. Later, he invested in WeWork, Uber and so on. Over the years, these investments don't seem to meet my son's expectations. On the contrary, he seems to have entered a dead end. The more he invests, the less he gets.
More and more loss-making projects have brought trouble to Sun Zhengyi. He has sold Ali shares three times to cash in, but even so, it is not a long-term solution. Every morning, he wakes up with $300 million in debt to pay.
By the middle of 20 19, the bank debt faced by Softbank Group exceeded17 billion USD. A Japanese entrepreneurial genius has changed from the position of the richest man in the world to one of the most indebted and unlucky people in the world, which is the scourge of the rich.