American Fortune Life

1. Chengxi High-tech Industrial Zone, Paradise City, No. 99 Huaxing Road, Chuangye Building.

Under the curious eyes of Ali employees in the building, the founders and executives of Ali, headed by Jack Ma, walked out of the building gate quickly.

The team led by Andy has driven into the canopy at the entrance of the Entrepreneurship Building. The shiny black Maybach 62S came to a stop. The two cars at the front and rear quickly jumped off the four burly bodyguards led by Joseph, and let Jack Ma and his party go out. People are slightly surprised and dazed.

The rear door of the Maybach opened, and Li Xiaoying, who was wearing a black modified cheongsam-style short-sleeved dress, got out of the car first, and stood by the door with a calm smile on her face. Andy's tall figure and that young and handsome face appeared in front of her. In front of everyone, everyone present couldn't help but sigh.

"Hi, Mr. Smith, I'm Jack Ma, welcome to Ali." Jack Ma smiled brightly, walked up, reached out and shook hands with Andy who was also smiling.

"Hello, Jack, you can call me Andy. It's a pleasure to meet you. It's an honor to be here in Ali. I'm also happy to witness the rise of a great company with you." Andy smiled brightly. , the standard mandarin made everyone sigh again, looking at Jack Ma, who was only 166 centimeters tall and long and unremarkable. The first impression he made was very deep. Those eyes were very bright, exuding the light of wisdom, and the eyes were agile, giving people a very alert feeling.

Andy's words made the people in Ali, including Jack Ma, feel very comfortable listening to them. Looking at the handsome foreigner in front of them, he was more pleasing to the eye and kind, not as arrogant or arrogant as they imagined. The exclamation is worthy of being a child of an established family.

Then Jack Ma introduced Andy to Ali's management team with a happy smile. Andy shook hands with everyone with a charming smile on his face.

"Andy, please come inside." Jack Ma also didn't have too much politeness, but directly accepted Andy's proposal to call him by name directly. In the process of communicating with foreign tourists in the West Lake, he not only learned the language, but also learned the foreign culture, so he would not feel strange or uncomfortable when dealing with foreigners.

"Thank you." Andy nodded with a smile, and walked into the entrepreneurial building side by side with Jack Ma. Along the way, although every employee of Ali was curious about the important person who came, and sneaked a few glances from time to time, none of them stopped or joined in. When discussing together, they are all busy, in a hurry, and the pace is very fast.

In the conference room, Andy was smiling all the time, listening to Jack Ma, who was very talkative, or talkative. He was very good at speaking, and he was very good at speaking. , a dreamer, and an orator.

Talk about Ali's entrepreneurship, talk about Ali's dream, talk about Ali's model, talk about Ali's impact on society, economy,

The changes brought about by the people talk about Ali's prospects and future. . .

The eloquence is very attractive, and the views seem to be very novel and advanced at the moment, but in the eyes of Andy, many of them are just Jack Ma's dreams now. In Jack Ma's words, dreams still have to be, just in case Achieved it?

Regardless of whether others believe in his dream or not, he will use his innate confidence and his eloquence to convince others that this dream may come true, which is very contagious.

Andy couldn't help thinking of a comment about Jack Ma, "He sells dreams, but he is a man of action. So you have dreams, and he has money."

Ali's people in the conference room secretly looked at the young Andy Smith from time to time. They naturally knew Jack Ma and the others very well, but they didn't show any impatience when they saw Andy Smith, a foreigner. Instead, they listened very seriously. There is a smile on his face from beginning to end, he is really an elegant nobleman, and he didn't show the slightest bewilderment about Jack Ma's Chinese citations, and everyone doesn't think that Andy is pretending to understand and pretending to be calm .

"Why? Andy, why did you decide to join Ali before going public? You know, many foreign institutions are very unfavorable to us, and even equate us with fake and shoddy goods. Aren't you worried that your investment will fail?" Jack Ma's sudden question made everyone focus on Andy.

Andy knew that it was Jack Ma who wanted to weigh himself. It seemed very rude, but he didn't care, just smiled and said: "Customer, Ali's attention to customer service is the main reason why I decided to invest At the same time, it is also an important factor that I think Ali can defeat the strong with the weak, and defeat it in the battle with Ebay.

Ebay's resources are much larger than Ali's, but Ebay's style of play is based on the idea of ​​an American academic MBA. As an MBA-born major, every move of Ebay can be accurately predicted.

Of course, the most important thing is that a certain treasure has a strategy of free for three years, and then three years and three years of free. This kind of strategy directly hits Ebay's seven orifices. It is impossible for Ebay to announce that it will be free. If this is done, Ebay's stock price will plummet.

The strategy of a certain treasure is actually in line with the needs of users in the rabbit country. Users in Rabbit Country are completely different from users in the United States. American users started selling things from the basement of their homes online on Ebay; users in Rabbit Country do not have these things at all. Their demand is to buy all kinds of things that they have never bought or seen before. new things.

So Ebay opposes direct contact with users, but Mobao encourages users to contact, and even encourages users to communicate through e-commerce through software such as Aliwangwang.

Later, the launch of payment and other products was all because of meeting the needs of users! The so-called follow the trend, follow the trend of the user, only then will there be no disadvantages. "

Andy speaks mandarin with a straight accent, adding a calm and calm speech speed, and the key points of analysis and perspectives are very accurate and novel, so that Ali's executives and Jack Ma can't help nodding in agreement, and then Once I felt the strength of the young man in front of me. He really didn't invest casually. He really studied Ali and decided to invest after seeing Ali.

However, only Jack Ma looked at Andy with complicated eyes, but he became wary of the young and shameless individual's largest shareholder in front of him. The more sophisticated the shareholder, the harder it is to be perfunctory. What he did next Some layouts may need more care.

Similarly, Andy has never put Jack Ma at ease, and has never planned to make friends with him, because even if he has made friends with him, when it is really necessary to compete for interests, Jack Ma will choose interests without hesitation, so don't To make those falsehoods, the interest relationship between this kind of investor and investee is simpler. When Jack Ma is about to damage the interests of shareholders, he can directly respond.

To be honest, Ali's future money scene is too tempting, but Andy has always been vigilant about Jack Ma's character.

There is no doubt that Jack Ma has promoted the rapid development of Rabbit Country's e-commerce and related industries. It is no exaggeration to say that he is the industry standard-bearer. However, on the eve of becoming the richest man in the Rabbit Country, his seriously overdrawn credit account did not make him a convincing hero in the Quartet. Many people believe that when integrity protection is needed, Jack Ma mercilessly took off the Ali CEO top hat on Wei Zhe's head and blocked all IPs and customers in the area; After obtaining the first batch of third-party payment licenses, Jack Ma advocated the supremacy of law and safety, and the black-box operation harmed the interests of shareholders, and the spirit of the contract was gone; As for the promise not to establish its own logistics, people can only "hehe" amid Jack Ma's repeated inconsistency.

Andy remembers a classic quote that Jack Ma said later, which may sum up why he was able to make those criticized decisions, "When you are successful, everything you say is the truth."

Everyone’s communication was very pleasant, at least everyone seems to be very satisfied. As for what each of them thinks, only one person knows. The next step is to visit Ali. To be honest, Andy is very interested in Ali’s internal operations, so I turned around. It's already noon.

"On the first floor, the wind and the moon should be drunk, and the ten miles of lakes and mountains will be drunk." Andy stood at the door of the outer building of the famous West Lake restaurant, softly reading the couplets on both sides.

"The building outside the building is like a pearl inlaid in the mountains and rivers, shining brightly. It has a history of 166 years here." Jack Ma smiled and introduced to Andy who was reading the couplet, "Let's go, Knowing that you are a gourmet, I have prepared many delicacies for you today, and you will definitely like them."

"West Lake Vinegar Fish..." Andy asked with a smile.

"Of course, this is the most famous signature dish, Mrs. Song's Fish Soup, Honey Juice Fire Fang, Longjing Shrimp, Dongpo Braised Pork, Beggar Chicken, Dry Fried Bell... There are many of them, only here It is the most authentic. This carving is "Dongpo Dredging the Lake", which truly and vividly records and reflects the historical story of Su Dongpo leading the crowd to dredge the West Lake more than 900 years ago to build the Su embankment and build six bridges." Jack Ma and Andy In parallel, while introducing the dishes to Andy with a smile, he did not forget to point to the Jing beautiful sculpture in the corridor to explain.

Andy had a very happy lunch, probably because the person who hosted him was Jack Ma. All the delicacies in the meal in Louwailou were very delicious. After eating the delicious dishes, he went down to the edge of the West Lake under the guidance of Jack Ma. I found a window facing the lake, looking at the lake surface like a mirror, and the guzheng leisurely, admiring the beautiful women in ancient costumes wearing white Suzhou embroidery showing exquisite curves.

Looking at the four tea seats with the characteristics of the rabbit country laid out one by one on the table: blue and white, purple sand, celadon, and colored glaze. Appreciating the Jingzhan tea art of a typical Jiangnan gentle woman, she speaks softly and softly.

Warming cups and sanitary ware, pouring tea, soaking and shaking incense, brewing, making soup...

The colored glaze tureen is used, and the one soaked is West Lake Longjing.

"Drain borneol liquid in water and cook sparrow's tongue with tea. It eliminates drunkenness, and also plays with jellyfish." Andy took a sip of Longjing, sighed softly, and recited a song "Testing Tea in Longjing" by Tong Hanchen of the Ming Dynasty. .

"Huh? Why are you all looking at me like that? Is there any problem?" Andy put down the tea bowl, with an expression that was still unfinished, looked up and saw that everyone, including the beautiful tea artist, looked at him with wide eyes, and asked in doubt. .

"Mr. Smith, you are a real Huaxia Tong, and you can write poems at your fingertips, which makes us a little ashamed." An Ali executive who accompanied us smiled wryly and shook his head in praise.

"Hehe, you probably feel that a foreigner not only speaks Mandarin very slickly, but can also recite ancient poems. Doesn't it go against my face?"

"Ha ha..."

Andy's joke made everyone in the teahouse couldn't help laughing.