Three examples of Ma Yun's unconventional behavior.

Ma Yun just entered junior high school, and a beautiful geography teacher came to the class. Every student likes her, and Ma Yun is no exception. Once, a female teacher said in class that she met a group of foreigners by the West Lake. The foreigner asked her about the tourist attractions in Hangzhou. By virtue of her geographical knowledge, the female teacher answered questions in English, which attracted a lot of appreciation.

The female teacher told the story to the students and concluded: "Students must learn geography well, or foreigners will ask you questions, and you will lose face in China. Ma Yun's method of learning English is the same as his appearance, and he doesn't take the usual road.

In order to get a chance to practice oral English, Ma Yun, a teenager, went to the West Lake in Hangzhou and a hotel where foreigners gathered to be a "wild guide" for foreigners. Ma Yun's English speech now surprises China people.

Two.

Haibo translation agency was Ma Yun's initial venture, and the first translation agency in Hangzhou faced difficulties from the beginning. The first month's income was in 700 yuan, and the rent was 2400 yuan. In order to keep his career going, Ma Yun can only rent out half the stores in translation agency to others. Suffering from the eyes of passers-by, there is no tall translation company at all.

At best, Ma Yun may have learned about the hardships of small vendors and sales very early through this process, and prepared experience for establishing an e-commerce platform in the future. But objectively speaking, entrepreneurship is really not suitable for blx people. By the way, Ma Yun was one of the teachers with the most courses in Hangzhou Institute of Electronic Technology at that time, and all of them were part-time.

Three.

China Yellow Pages is the first yellow pages website in China, although it is extremely rough. The website was established because of an experience of Ma Yun in America. 1995 In early 1995, Ma Yun visited a friend's Internet company in Seattle and saw the magic of the Internet with his own eyes. He immediately realized the huge development prospect of the Internet in the future and immediately decided to return to China to do the Internet.

At the beginning of his business, Ma Yun had no money, and all his possessions were only 6,000 yuan. So he sold the office furniture of Haibo translation agency, borrowed money from relatives and friends, and made up 80,000 yuan. Coupled with the investment of two friends, a * * * is only 65,438+10,000 yuan. For an Internet company, a mere 654.38 million+is really shabby.

Many people say that you can't compete with millions of Internet companies. Others say that today's environment is completely different from when Ma Yun founded China Yellow Pages. At that time, 654.38+ 10,000 yuan was ok, but now it is definitely not. I said, it's all excuses. People who say such things can't achieve much in this life, because all they see is difficulties.

For China Yellow Pages, in the early days of its establishment, capital was indeed the biggest problem. Due to large expenses and little business, at worst, the company only has 200 yuan cash in its bank account. However, with the indomitable spirit, Ma Yun overcame all kinds of difficulties and turned the turnover from zero to several million.

Extended data:

From 65438 to 0988, Ma Yun graduated from the Foreign Languages Department of Hangzhou Normal University with a bachelor's degree in literature, and was later assigned to Hangzhou Dianzi University (now Hangzhou Dianzi University) as a lecturer in English and international trade. Later, Ma Yun became an outstanding young teacher in Hangzhou and initiated the first English corner by the West Lake, which made him famous in the translation field in Hangzhou.

1992, because many people came to Ma Yun as an interpreter, Ma Yun founded Haibo translation agency and hired a retired teacher as an interpreter. In order to survive, Ma Yun went to Yiwu and Guangzhou with a big sack on his back. Haibo translation agency began to sell flowers and gifts, and once sold medicines for a year, with sales targets ranging from big hospitals to barefoot doctors.

1In March 1995, Ma Yun resigned from Hangzhou Institute of Electronic Technology, took out six or seven thousand yuan by himself, borrowed more than 10,000 yuan from his sister and brother-in-law, and made up 20,000 yuan to start a business. Hangzhou Haibo Computer Service Co., Ltd., the first Internet commerce company in China, was established. These three employees are Ma Yun, Ma Yun's wife and He.

1995 In May, China Yellow Pages was officially launched, and Ma Yun began to do business with friends around him. At this time, there are still three months before China can get online.

References:

Ma Yun Baidu Encyclopedia