Everyone has long-term plans and dreams, but most people don't take them seriously, or even if they take them seriously, they are only temporary and effective and can't really be implemented. However, Masayoshi Son, the founder of Japan Softbank Group, attaches great importance to university planning and has been implementing it quite well for more than 40 years.
19-year-old son zhengyi succeeded? 50-year life plan? Surprisingly, 57-year-old Sun Zhengyi began to practice his planning road when he was a junior. Masayoshi son once planned this way:? Anyway, when you are in your twenties, it is a good time to officially start your career and make a name for yourself. ; ? Earn at least 654.38+000 billion yen in your thirties? ; ? At the age of 40, you decided to win or lose, and started to attack in order to do something big? ; ? In his 50 s, he achieved great things; More than 60 years old, hand over the baton to the next manager. ?
In 20 10, Sun Zhengyi's speech at the launching ceremony of Softbank College was about how to select the next president of Softbank. In other words, today, Masayoshi son is trying to achieve the last goal. The writer Tofu Inoue, who is older than Sun Zhengyi 10 years old, said with emotion:? As a historian, I have been paying attention to him for more than 20 years. Although the details he said may be different, the fundamental part is that everything has become a reality. ?
Born for profit
Sun Zhengyi is famous as a venture capital.
Investing in Yahoo made him famous. In 1995, Sun Zhengyi first tentatively invested $2 million in Yahoo, and then invested 1 100 million. It can be said that Sun Zhengyi's investment is the biggest help for Yahoo to win the dominance of the Internet. Masayoshi son injected $355 million into Yahoo and got a 37% stake. Son also became the biggest winner after Yahoo went public. Sun Zhengyi's six-minute investment in Alibaba is also a much-told story in the investment community.
In 2000, data showed that Sun Zhengyi invested in more than 450 Internet companies around the world. However, Sun Zhengyi's role as an industrialist cannot be ignored. Nowadays, in Japan, Softbank not only has the most popular search engine (Yahoo search), e-commerce (Yahoo auction website+shopping website) and the largest portal website (Yahoo Japan), but also operates the fastest growing mobile operator in Japan (Vodafone). Softbank is also the only Apple iPhone operator in Japan and the only company that provides data services for the iPad.
As a student, Sun Zhengyi is also an inventor and a king of trade. But Sun Zhengyi is essentially a businessman, chasing time and money. Where there is money to earn, there is a field where big money is waiting, and he goes there.
The nature of a businessman begins with the first bucket of gold. 1978, Sun Zhengyi, then a student at the University of California, Berkeley, conceived the world's first speech electronic translator, which consisted of speech synthesis, dictionary and LCD. This idea made him earn his first bucket of gold.
It will take 10 to 20 years to make the computer speak if Masayoshi Son makes this tester himself. 50-year life plan? It will be destroyed. Is there any good way? It is more efficient to concentrate the leading figures in all fields under your own authority than to do everything yourself. Under the guidance of this idea, Sun Zhengyi, who is less than 20 years old, found Dr. mozer, a world-class authority in the field of speech synthesis, and persuaded him to cooperate with him to develop this product. Later, Sharp bought patents and developed goods.
Integrating resources is the core competence of businessmen. We can see that Sun Zhengyi is mobilizing funds, materials and talents all over the world, thus exerting world-class influence. Henry Ford, the king of cars, concisely summed up the essence of entrepreneurs and responded to him in public? Ignorance? When criticized, Ford said, I can tell you that there are many buttons on my desk. I can answer any question I want to know. ?
When an enterprise matures, the most common way to use other resources is acquisition. After working with world-class experts to develop automatic translators for 28 years, Sun Zhengyi, who wants to engage in mobile phone operation, encountered a similar dilemma. If I start from scratch and use a 1.7 GHz mobile phone, it will take me five years to build my own base station. Is it worth spending half your time at 10? Later, we heard the news that in 2006, 48-year-old Masayoshi Son spent155 billion US dollars to acquire a 97.7% stake in the Japanese business of Vodafone, the world's largest wireless operator.
Vision and diligence
When summing up more than 30 years of entrepreneurial experience, Sun Zhengyi shared that choosing the industry that will become the mainstream in the future is the key. Take the lead in noticing the development trend and adjust the operating conditions in time. Choosing branches and leaves or gaps may be a temporary success, but it will not become a climate after all, and you can't expect great success in the future? .
Part of the reason for this conclusion is that Sun Zhengyi chose the right future mainstream industry. As early as high school, he was influenced and decided to turn the tide in the computer industry.
Here is a story.
In high school, Masayoshi Son was deeply moved by reading the book Jewish Business Law written by Japanese McDonald's manager Fujita, so he ran from Kyushu to Tokyo and asked to see Fujita. Fujita's advice to this reckless teenager is: If I am still young, I will not engage in food sales, but engage in computer-related business. ? When he came to America to study, he was hit by a microcomputer. The son carefully reflected on Fujita's words, which more or less determined his future efforts.
Sun Zhengyi's stories about diligence are hard to count. After studying in the United States from Japan, it took Sun Zhengyi only three weeks to jump a few grades from the second year of high school, and he was admitted to an American university and became an American college student. 1September, 975, he officially became a college student. The first thing Son did was to buy a door, move it back to his room, put it on two steel cabinets and make an extra-large desk. During his college years, Sun Zhengyi became? Learning freak? He is as tireless as Superman, sleeping only three hours a day on average, no more than five hours at most.
Ted Dorota, former general manager of Softbank USA, once summed up Sun Zhengyi's two unique abilities. First, the amazing ability to see through the essence of the problem, see the essence clearly and react quickly; Second, work hard.
Sun Zhengyi's advice to future entrepreneurs is to fight bravely.
No matter how advanced the theory is or how excellent the strategy is, there is no point in not fighting. Don't forget, Henry? Ford, Rockefeller, Kōnosuke Matsushita, Bill? Gates or Steve? Steve Jobs, all these entrepreneurs, tried to seize the opportunity and finally realized their ideas through struggle. In other words, fighting equals vision.
Sun Zhengyi, who is less than 1.6 meters tall, believes that as a leader, he must have offensive power. The leader himself must be as aggressive as anyone else, otherwise he can't lead others. Good people? Can't manage the organization well, but what's the premise of bad COP? The depth of true love? . If you don't feel good and cruel, no one will follow you? .
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