Finally got over it. Finally, I can say goodbye to P2P completely and say goodbye.
In this disaster, the "Dicai" team went from more than 1,400 people to more than 300 people, hitting rock bottom.
Counting from the time I left Zhengzhou in 1999 and joined Alibaba, I have been in business for more than 20 years. This is the deepest and heaviest "tribulation" I have ever experienced.
P2P, once a very popular entrepreneurial track, began to evolve into an entrepreneurial purgatory at the end of 2017. A large number of corporate capital chains were broken, and investors lost their money.
P2P, this business model that was once strongly encouraged, has reached the final moment when it has been completely denied and liquidated.
The entire industry was born without an "identity card", and now it is "one size fits all". There is no exception for any company in Zhejiang, and all companies are liquidated.
Some companies have gone bankrupt, their bosses have fled, and the company has closed down; some companies have been filed against, and people inside and outside the company are panicking.
We always put the interests of investors first.
On June 8, “Wacai” completed the liquidation of its P2P business ahead of schedule, and the principal and interest of the loan have been repaid to the lender’s account.
Having reached this point, I can say that we have finally emerged from the dark valley of entrepreneurship.
You can sit down and take a breath, you can look up at the sky.
You can also meet and chat with old friends. Mr. Lin asked me to sit down and have a chat, and sort out the experiences, stories and lessons learned in the past 20 years of entrepreneurship.
Let’s start from the day we joined Alibaba.
In 1999, I saw an exclusive interview with Jack Ma in China Business News, and I felt a sense of intimacy like "meeting an old friend in a foreign country".
At this time, Alibaba did not appear to be very tall. Jack Ma just wanted to make Alibaba an online marketplace where anyone in need could open a store and do business.
On a whim, I wrote a 10,000-word long letter to Alibaba customer service, talking about my thoughts on foreign trade e-commerce and making many suggestions. It is true that newborn calves are not afraid of tigers.
Before this, I worked with a like-minded fellow in Zhengzhou, Henan. He wrote code and I made web pages. With the investment of a female boss, we built a The B2B website "China Trade Port" is a bit like Alibaba for trade.
Not long after I sent the letter to Alibaba, I received a reply from Jiang Fang (currently a partner of Alibaba). The letter was very long, and she answered every suggestion I made. I was surprised and moved.
Good feelings are immediately transformed into action. I clicked on the job advertisement on Alibaba’s homepage. A sentence jumped out:
"If not you, who?
If not now, when?"
(At this moment, it is you)
It hit my heart.
In October 1999, at the age of 22, I carried a huge green canvas travel bag and took the green leather train for a day and a night to come to Hangzhou.
When I got off the train at the Railway City Station, it was raining lightly. The raindrops fell on my face, which made it a little cold. There is a moist earthy smell in the air, mixed with the fragrance of vegetation.
I got on the double-decker bus No. 11 and found a window seat.
The further west you drive, the fewer tall buildings there are on both sides of the road. I got off the bus at the Gudun intersection of Wenyi West Road and came to the gate of a community.
The four golden characters of "Lakeside Garden" jumped into my eyes. Standing at the gate of the community and looking in, I saw exquisite small buildings hidden in the dense green shade.
The position I applied for was website planning, and I was quite unsure. I wanted to give it a try, but if it didn’t work out, I would try editing again. Anyway, I wanted to join this company.
There were three people interviewing me: Sun Tongyu (later the president of Taobao), who held a notebook and asked questions seriously, and Lei Wenchao, who spoke fluent English and was extremely friendly. Peng Lei who has no sense of distance.
Peng Lei asked me, do you regret coming to Alibaba like this? I don't understand what she means.
She said that many people are afraid to come because the company is located in a community. Girls come to interviews with their boyfriends.
I said: "It's very high-end. This is the most beautiful community I have ever seen." Later, the Qianjiang Evening News interviewed Peng Lei and wrote an article called "This local The eight-way move is correct."
Oh, there was another person who was particularly impressed. When I was waiting in the living room on the first floor, I passed by many people, and Xie Shihuang came over to say hello, without treating me as an outsider. , asking long and short questions, is a familiar person.
On December 16, I officially became an employee of Alibaba, with job number 46. I am the first employee recruited by Alibaba from other provinces.
This is a very different company.
When you open the door, you will see that everyone in the room is dressed casually, but everyone's face is fixed on the computer screen, very focused.
Go to work at 9 am. At six o'clock in the evening, we all have dinner together and then continue working. We work overtime until eleven or twelve o'clock in the evening. No one complained.
Every night, I stay in front of the computer, immersed in work or studying by myself. The atmosphere here makes people have endless energy and just want to fight.
In the evening, everyone gathered around a big round table to eat, talking and laughing. After dinner, we play the killing game together. On weekdays, the community is empty except for Ali and his gang.
I am relatively introverted. Looking at a group of colleagues who are working so hard and playing speculative games that I have never heard of before, I feel like I am dream.
The tennis court, table tennis table, and chess board are all ours. I'm pretty good at table tennis, and I got to know many of my colleagues on the table.
The days in the lakeside garden are really dreamy. Thirty or fifty people are fully committed to a common cause and a common dream. This is the ultimate state of entrepreneurship, and I still think so.
At the beginning, I was responsible for the planning and design of the website, and my job responsibilities were like the current product manager. In the past, when I was doing it by myself, I would draw random ideas in my mind, scribble on paper, and communicate with technicians through gestures. After arriving in Ali, it didn’t work.
We have a female engineer who has passed the Microsoft certification exam, and my needs are basically in line with hers. Every time I went to submit a request, I was scolded back and asked to re-format it. The number of times has increased, and I am afraid of going to her. The thought of asking her makes my scalp tingle.
But I had to go. I had to overcome it by myself. I learned from other people’s previous documents and revised them over and over again. Later, I bought a copy of "Software Requirements" for self-study. I am very grateful to this female engineer. Without her strict requirements, I would just stand still and not be able to make a breakthrough.
In 2000, after the Internet bubble burst, Alibaba began to ask for income.
"Chinese suppliers" take the lead, with one company charging 20,000 to 30,000 yuan. I think this business can be more template-based and at the same time lower the price.
So we formed a team. I was the product manager and Wu Yongming was the technical director. We worked on a paid membership project, which was later named "Integrity Pass".
When "Integrity Pass" was first launched, we naively thought it would be a huge hit with orders. As a result, after operation, there were only a few orders a day. In the first month of going online, I made hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue. I felt very happy and felt that I could support the team.
I don’t think about it from Jack Ma’s perspective at all. Hundreds of people in the entire company are pointing to “Chinese suppliers” and “Integrity Pass” to make profits. This income is far away. not enough.
In 2004, we began to try telephone sales. This method was first used by Alibaba among Internet companies. It is simply a trump card.
I was very impressed. The fax machine was like a money printing machine, and remittance orders were printed out, one after another. Soon, the revenue of "Trust Pass" exceeded 100 million.
We went from quarreling in the conference room every day to being able to go out and book a hotel for strategic meetings.
But I was getting more and more confused...
One morning in April 2004, I had something on my mind. I woke up early, turned on my computer and surfed the Internet as usual, and received a message from Jack Ma through Yahoo Messenger. He is the only one online in the whole company.
Jack Ma has just arrived in the United States. After chatting for a few words, I plucked up the courage and typed the next line: "Mr. Ma, I want to leave Alibaba to start a business."
"How old are you this year?" Jack Ma asked I.
"27." I answered.
"You are not old enough yet, train in Alibaba for two more years, and then go out to start a business. I will participate in a forum soon, let's talk about it when we get back." After Ma Yun finished speaking, he logged off. .
This time, I didn’t listen to Jack Ma.
Early the next morning, I formally submitted my resignation. Four and a half years after joining the company, Ali still doesn’t have his “five-year-old” gold ring.
The idea of ??resigning and starting a business has been swirling in my mind for a long time, and a growing feeling surged in my heart: If I don’t take this step, I will definitely regret it in the future. .
Since I left my hometown and came to Hangzhou, my biggest problem has been the housing problem. At first, I found a temporary place to transition. Three months later, I moved to Gudang New Village and brought two colleagues to live with me. The rent was 900 yuan per month.
Renting a house is an area with asymmetric information. You stand at the gate of the community and look at the tall buildings, but you don’t know which household is renting. The landlord cannot find the tenant, and the tenant does not know where the landlord is. If you go through an intermediary, the cost is very high.
After some analysis, I found that there are objective orders of magnitude for both buyers and sellers of rental houses, and the Alibaba model can also be established in this segment.
Back then, Alibaba only had B2B business, and Taobao was just a prototype. In the entire market, almost no one has set foot in the field of life services.
There is still a window period of one or two years in the field of life services. I want the stupid bird to fly first and seize the opportunity. After leaving Alibaba, I started a BBS called "Yi Ren.com".
One time after having a meal with friends, we all felt that the service and food quality in the restaurant were poor. We thought it would be nice to have a website where we could complain and comment.
The name "Word of Mouth" came from a dinner party with friends, where a dozen or so people at the table discussed the "word of mouth" of a certain product. Suddenly an idea flashed, "Word of Mouth" is a good name.
Before finishing my meal, I rushed home on my bicycle and turned on my computer to check whether the domain name "koubei.com" was registered. Fortunately, it is close enough to me.
In June 2004, I rented a small house of more than ten square meters in Gudangwan New Village. With the 80,000 yuan earned through more than four years of frugality at Alibaba, I seriously started to start my own business. I put 40,000 into the company for operations and the remaining 40,000 for living expenses.
But the investment was like a bottomless pit. Soon, the money was almost burned out - the money was far less useful than I thought. However, I still plan to stick with it for at least two years, and I can usually see certain results in two years.
I tried to find VC financing. Investors believe that the investment in life services is huge and there will be no short-term benefits, and they have expressed their disapproval.
I found several investors, but nothing happened. I was a little frustrated. After walking around, I found that no one knew who "Li Zhiguo" was. It was not as good as it is now. As soon as I resigned from Alibaba, a bunch of VCs rushed to my door.
It took two years of hard work. The turning point came from Jack Ma’s wife Zhang Ying. She had just left Alibaba and had a chat with me. A year later, she invested 2 million yuan in her own name, which solved my urgent need.
In August 2005, Alibaba announced its full acquisition of Yahoo China. Soon, Jack Ma came to me and asked me about Koubei's future plans: "Do you want Koubei to be listed independently, or do you want to go back to Alibaba and work together on To C?"
I realized that life service is a long-term career. When Jack Ma came to see me at Lakeside Garden for the second time, I was determined to accept Alibaba’s investment and stick to it for the long term.
On October 26, 2006, in order to lay out the To C sector, Alibaba made a formal strategic investment in Koubei.com with an investment of US$15 million in two rounds.
However, Yahoo China has not achieved impressive results. After many revisions, neither search engines nor comprehensive portals rank among the top three in the industry.
Alibaba began to re-examine the future direction of Yahoo China and proposed the idea of ????merging Yahoo and Koubei.
Yahoo is the "upper body", with vision, brand, and traffic; while Koubei.com is responsible for the "lower body", understanding life services and having execution capabilities.
As an old employee of Alibaba, I agreed to the merger without much thought. I felt that I should think about this issue from the perspective of the group.
Looking back, life at that time was like running on a highway, flying fast, and it had already passed by before I had time to think about it. When I walked up to it and took a look, I realized that the exit next to it was for Shanghai, and I was on an unknown road.
At this time, the number of registered users of Koubei.com has reached tens of millions, ranking first in the classified information industry. Among them, Yellow Pages is second only to Dianping.com, with daily UVs reaching 2.2 million. But this is still not the same as Yahoo China's 100 million PV per day.
From Alibaba’s perspective, merger may be the best outcome. In June 2008, Yahoo China and Koubei.com were officially integrated into "Yahoo Koubei".
In order to direct traffic to Koubei.com, Yahoo China's homepage has opened a new entrance for Koubei.com, and all categories of Koubei.com's classified information are placed on Yahoo's homepage.
But contrary to expectations, this integration only brought 1 million daily PVs to Koubei.com, which was equivalent to 5% of the 20 million PVs of Koubei.com at the time. Users have their own needs, and their ideas are not consistent with our presets.
After that, "Yahoo Word of Mouth" had several presidents. Everyone had different understandings of classified information and yellow pages. Every leader was eager to try. "Yahoo Word of Mouth" experienced The pain of integration.
When I handed over Word of Mouth to Alibaba in early 2008, Alibaba invested US$15 million in us, and there was still US$10 million lying on the account.
Modern management theory believes that after a company becomes formalized, every position must be replaceable. But this theory does not apply to startups and innovative businesses.
Afterwards, I often reflect on the reasons for the word-of-mouth network.
My mistake was that although Jack Ma was willing to listen to the opinions of his subordinates, from beginning to end, I never tried hard to win the autonomy of Koubei.com, which made the fate of Koubei too passive. .
I hope that I will not make the same mistake again in the future. Founders should be responsible for the company they have built and lead it in the right direction.
During a meeting, Jack Ma met me, patted me on the shoulder, and said only two words: "Let go."
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Yes, let go. Let go of the past and look forward.
In 2009, I left Koubei.com, which I founded, to participate in the preparation of Alibaba Cloud Computing Company, and served as the senior director of the data platform department and service operation department.
After working in Alibaba Cloud for more than a year, I realized the importance of data and also realized that technology research and development is not my specialty.
In September 2010, I left Alibaba Cloud. After that, I started my career as an angel investor. A year or two later, my friends and I founded "Amoeba Capital", which focuses on early-stage Internet investments.
I want to help more entrepreneurs. Starting a business is like stepping on a stool to measure your height, and VC is the stool. Once a VC enters an industry, the industry will be driven by capital. You can't avoid financing.
I saw the opportunity of the explosion of the mobile Internet, and successively invested in Xiaoao Games, Wacai, Kuaidi Taxi, Mogujie, Facebook Exchange, 2D Fire, and Huaban.com , Gourmet Shop, Yuantianju, Maimiao Technology, Boca, Spacetime Electric Vehicle, Fudi Pioneer Park, etc. There are more than 20 projects, and later there are Youzan, Tongdun, Tuya and so on.
In terms of valuation, the most successful projects are Kuaidi Taxi, Youzan, Mogujie, Tongdun, Tuya, etc.
Kuaidi Taxi and Didi merged, with a post-merger valuation of 50 to 60 billion U.S. dollars, making it one of the most promising startups in China.
In early 2016, "Mogujie" and "Meili Shuo" merged, with the post-merger valuation approaching US$3 billion. Now the valuation of the listed part of "Youzan" is nearly 30 billion Hong Kong dollars (only 51% of the assets have been acquired).
In 2008, I invited several old Ali people to learn to drive together, including my entrepreneurial partner from the word-of-mouth period and her husband Zhao Xiaowei.
We don’t have much time to practice driving in the driving school. Four or five of us often get together to chat. Everyone thinks that the mobile Internet is about to take off.
Once, I talked about a small accounting application that I bought for 29 yuan and used on my smartphone. I thought there was something interesting: "What about this direction?"
Zhao Xiaowei was also very excited: "I agree with this direction." It turned out that as early as 2000, he was doing it himself on the PC I set up an accounting system for myself and my wife.
I said: "No one has ever done bookkeeping well. You have done it on a computer, can you move it to a mobile phone? If you do , I will invest.”
This is how this accounting app entrepreneurial project called “Wacai” started, and I invested 300,000.
In the first three months, Zhao Xiaowei was the only full-time employee, nicknamed "Yuanbao". Three months later, the company had four people.
Like Ali, Wacai's earliest working place was Lakeside Garden.
Wacai is a project that I continue to invest in. By 2013, I had invested more than 10 million yuan. But for Wacai, this little money is far from enough. For a while, I often visited investment institutions.
I agree that the reason for digging money is that people’s money needs to be managed. However, other investors are not optimistic about this team because the three founders all come from traditional software companies and have no experience in Internet entrepreneurship.
Before and after Apple launched the iPhone 4 in 2010, smartphones were still in the popularization stage, and most of Wacai’s downloads were natural traffic. Unlike American accounting users who have rigid needs such as tax returns, Chinese users are more interested in trying something new.
Reflected in the data, the beginning of the month is the peak period for users to download accounting, and every year old users give up accounting and choose to leave. Although Wacai has 40 million downloads, it only has a few million monthly active users.
When faced with questions from investors, I kept explaining this: China has 1.3 billion people, and as long as 1% of them keep accounts, there will be 13 million users.
Li Feng, partner of IDG Capital, said that the era of "Internet finance" is here.
Li Feng once led the investment in CreditEase. CreditEase has been established for a long time and began to deploy offline business very early to provide users who cannot enjoy the services of traditional financial institutions. Lending services.
I also realize that there are still many people in China who cannot borrow money and do not know how to manage money. We can provide "Internet financial" services to these users who want to make money.
In order to inject financial genes into Wacai, the first thing I thought of was the "Xince Data" invested by Amoeba Capital - a company focusing on the retail business of commercial banks. , a company that provides consulting and solutions.
In October 2013, Wacai announced the acquisition of Xince Data, and Xince founder Gu Chenwei became the president of Wacai.
One of the prerequisites for Li Feng’s investment to make money is that you, Li Zhiguo, must come in. Otherwise, he feels that the investment risk is a bit high.
Do you want to switch from being an investor back to being an entrepreneur? At that moment, I hesitated. For me, this was a difficult decision.
The voice of reason is to continue to invest well. At that time, I had already invested in projects such as Mogujie and Kuaidi Taxi. I knew that Amoeba’s returns would be very good. .
But I also know that digging money has reached the most critical moment. It was my idea to do the accounting at the beginning. I need to help the team seize this fleeting opportunity. . As for investment, if you make your money digging bigger, you can continue to do it.
In February 2014, I officially became the CEO of Wacai, nicknamed "Haibei" - China's oldest currency.
When people were talking about how many people became rich overnight after Alibaba went public, I was in tense contact with investors.
Two months later, we received US$50 million in Series B financing from multiple investors including Broadband Capital and CICC. In addition to the previous A and A+ rounds, The cumulative financing amount exceeds US$80 million.
I have 20 years of experience in the Internet industry, and Gu Chenwei has nearly 20 years of experience in the financial industry... The merger of financial professionals in suits and grassroots Internet entrepreneurs, compared with It was smoother than expected.
After the merger, Wacai established a new company, which is divided into Shanghai Financial Division and Hangzhou Mobile Internet Division. The Shanghai team comes to Hangzhou for meetings every week. Everyone is very hardworking and very particular about execution.
The goal I set for myself is to use 5 years to explore a successful business model, help the company embark on a healthy and rapid development track, and at the same time find a Take over as my CEO, and then come back and make good investments.
Who knew that Internet finance would one day collapse...
Can there be a platform to help the public manage money? This idea of ??mine was first realized by Yu’E Bao in 2013.
Seeing that Yu’e Bao became popular, we quickly formed a “financial management” business team and launched similar currency fund products. Around the first "18 Financial Management Day" on November 18, 2013, we achieved sales of 1 billion yuan.
The rapid development of financial management business has completely exceeded my imagination. By August 2014, financial management transactions exceeded 10 billion yuan.
With the increasing number of users, Wacai is no longer limited to simple accounting. We want to be all-round asset stewards for the common people.
Wacai is also transitioning to more professional asset management, one of the important areas is P2P.
As a major model of Internet finance, P2P developed explosively in 2014 and became a typical example of differentiated financing services outside the banking system.
The essence of P2P is transparency. Users know what they are buying and what their asset status is. True P2P makes data more transparent, thereby reducing financial risks.
However, by the end of 2017, the situation in the P2P industry suddenly changed: non-standard financial management platforms frequently exploded, the platform was unable to pay, and the boss ran away...
The State Council took the lead in carrying out special rectification of Internet finance and began to rectify the industry. At first, it was to reduce the scale, and later, it was to completely withdraw.
If a bank does not do business for a year, it will go bankrupt, not to mention Internet financial companies without licenses. Everyone has their own ideas.
Some companies are still "lucky", thinking that they may survive until the end and be the lucky one to get the license and "become a regular"; some companies have already Falling into a deep pit and continuing a vicious cycle.
The occurrence of this series of events was very sudden, and it also had a huge impact on Wacai.com’s business and company operations. I, Wacai, and the entire industry are in a quagmire and are in a dilemma.
Every day in the company, employees can be heard discussing P2P, the company, and the future of this industry. No one knows what will happen tomorrow.
Stop advertising, like a red flag. Everyone felt the turmoil. Excellent talents began to lose their jobs and returned to "big factories" to make a living; some employees who wanted stability also entered a state of "rest and health".
From starting a business to now, this is the first time I have encountered this dilemma: as I kept running, the entrepreneurial track was closed, and the entire industry I was involved in was denied and liquidated.
So many employees have to make a living, and there is pressure from shareholders. Someone is holding a flag at any time to force you to pay immediately...
< p> A well-known company in the industry was put on file, and a group of police officers rushed into the company. A colleague of ours went to see it, and when he came back, he said that the scene made people feel chills behind their backs, and they only felt "heartbroken" and "desperate."
In the winter of 2019, the epidemic began to rage.
P2P business has been completely stopped and the decommissioning work is in progress. We don’t have much time left.
Executives have taken salary cuts of 30%-40%. Several floors of office buildings were demolished, leaving only 300 people out of the original 1,400 people.
As the epidemic worsens, team members are unable to resume work normally. Some have poor Internet access in their hometowns, and some do not have computers with them.
Colleagues in the technical department who were able to resume work worked overtime overnight to create a "collection system" that can also be used on mobile phones.
We held conference calls for several days in a row to discuss solutions. The clearing work cannot be stopped. Once it stops and slows down, the consequences... will be unpredictable.
The atmosphere of depression and anxiety lingers. In the middle of winter, some colleagues even hide in their cars to participate in meetings, fearing to let their families know the "bad news" about the company.
The epidemic has shaken the economy, and more and more people are not paying back their money...
From "China Trade Port" "In the beginning, including Chengxintong, Koubei.com, Alibaba Cloud, and Amoeba Capital, Wacai.com was my sixth venture.
In the past five times I started a business, I have achieved "from 0 to 1" success.
What I am facing this time is an unprecedented "tribulation". I tell myself that I must calm down and face the difficulties...
Leave temporarily, even to take a breather. When starting a business, you are the driver, driving the car; the investor is the co-pilot, watching the road for you. It’s okay for investors to want to go on vacation in the Maldives when they are tired, but not for entrepreneurs.
Leading the team out of difficulties and towards victory is an upgrade of entrepreneurial passion.
As early as 2016, we defined the company's mission as "intelligent wealth for everyone to enjoy", which has very high requirements for the company's development.
The performance culture of Wacai Company is WPS (Wacai Performance System). We strive to ensure safe and stable operation of each business line and do a good job in cost and risk control management.
We have developed the "intelligent collection system" of Wacai. It was later favored by the Xihu District Government and used to serve the asset recovery work of other P2P platforms. The overdue asset recovery rate increased by nearly 10 times.
In the past seven years, Wacai has paid out nearly 3 billion yuan in interest. At such a moment, we choose to protect the interests of users first and pay the principal and interest of borrowers.
June 8, 2020, was a historic moment for Wacai.com. We paid the principal and interest of the lender in advance.
I am now proud to say that my team and I have come to an end.
After suffering, there is rebirth.
I hope to turn bad things into good things, sum up the experiences and lessons learned over the years, and move on. Only in this way can we be worthy of the remaining team, the support of shareholders, and the trust of the government.
In the future, we will divide our troops into several ways to dig money, and a few experienced managers will lead everyone to continue to start new businesses and find breakthroughs. You have overcome such difficulties, what are you still afraid of?
I am learning the A-share market.
Peter Lynch said that when investing, look for the companies you come into contact with in your life. I saw Hengshun Vinegar and Haitian Soy Sauce in the kitchen at home, so I bought some of each. Last week, the returns were 102% and 106%. It's a pity that my family doesn't have the habit of eating Fuling mustard, so I missed it.
I also bought Ningbo Bank, with a return of more than 80%. Their white-collar loans are doing well. There is also Ping An Bank. Ma Mingzhe is the most innovative and Internet-like in the traditional financial system.
Combined with my profound experience and lessons in finance, I also want to see if the fund can be sold.
After climbing out of the trough, I will try with more awe.
In the second half of the year, I will visit the best fund managers in China and prepare to launch a new business of "investment education". Wealth management is a long-term thing and does not happen overnight.
Sometimes, I still think of the dreamy days in the lakeside garden when I first joined Alibaba:
In the living room The old carpet, the mottled pink wallpaper, the broken glass door that can be opened with a single effort, we are worried about losing the computer all day long. Dozens of people are crowded into a room, and there are no rules and regulations. Good ideas come up after a few collisions, and the ideas that come to mind can be implemented immediately.
How wonderful it is for a group of people to do one thing with passion and concentration, every day, month, month and year.
My wife keeps asking me: "How long do you want to maintain this entrepreneurial status?"
I work on a word-of-mouth website. At that time, I promised her: I will work for another five years and then take a break. Now, my eldest son is 12 years old and my youngest son is 5 years old, but I still can't stop.
When traveling with my family to Qinghai and Gansu, I was tortured by high reflexes, colds and back pain. I lay in the back seat of the car and read John Berger's " hold fast". This book accompanied me through Yangguan and Dunhuang.
I always remember what the author said in the book:
"Keep moving forward...overcome adversity and opponents, any difficulties Nothing can stop us from rising."
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