On March 7th, 20021year, Huang Zheng, aged 4 1 year, wrote a letter to shareholders and officially announced his resignation as chairman of Pinduoduo. In this letter, two important messages were revealed:
First, Pinduoduo has become the second in the e-commerce industry, surpassing JD.COM in terms of user scale, activity and transaction volume, and approaching Taobao.
Second, after resigning, I will do what I always wanted to do when I was a child, devote myself to the research in food science, life science and other fields, and at the same time invest 654.38 billion dollars in the research of my alma mater, Zhejiang University, so as to explore new space for the rapid, high-quality and in-depth development of Pinduoduo in the past ten years.
From the grassroots of an ordinary family to the second richest man in China, this is definitely a model of diaosi's counterattack. What does his life experience inspire us ordinary people? Can we replicate his success?
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How important is it to get into a good university?
1980, Huang Zheng was born in an ordinary family in the suburb of Hangzhou. Just like our ordinary rural family, he went to a particularly ordinary suburban primary school. However, Huang Zheng did very well in math, because he won the prize in the Olympic competition and was admitted to Hangzhou Foreign Languages School. He originally liked mathematics and physics and didn't want to go to school outside Hangzhou, but under the repeated persuasion of the principal, he went to this middle school, which opened the second pulse of Zheng Renshang.
In this middle school, there are many excellent students, most of whom are rich second generation or official second generation, and the probability of being sent to university is 80%. Entering this middle school is equivalent to getting a key to walk to Zhejiang University.
After graduating from high school, Huang Zheng successfully walked to Zhejiang University and entered a mixed class with more resources, more opportunities and greater freedom.
The most effective way for us ordinary people to completely change the class is to enter a good university, because in an excellent university, the perspective you see will subvert your cognition, and the resources you contact in the university will also help your future career.
After graduating from undergraduate computer science, Huang Zheng successfully applied to study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was about to meet someone in his life.
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You need someone to show you the road to success.
Why Huang Zheng was appreciated by Ding Lei, the boss of Netease, and why Ding Lei introduced him to Duan Yongping, the boss of the investment community, came from an adventure on an Internet forum.
200 1 with the advent of the internet bubble, Netease's share price fell to freezing point. Ding Lei, the boss of Netease, urgently needs to find a breakthrough to bring Netease out of the mire. At that time, he was lucky enough to know Duan Yongping, a native of Zhejiang. He pointed out the weakness of Netease and suggested playing games and building his own moat. Later, he bought 2.05 million Netease shares for less than 1 USD. As Netease's share price soared, Duan Yongping also made a profit.
Ding Lei has found a breakthrough, but technical problems also need to be solved. As a technician, he saw the technical articles published by Huang Zheng in the forum, which is expected to solve his own search algorithm problems.
So I added Huang Zheng's MSN. At that time, Huang Zheng thought he was a liar, but finally decided to help Ding Lei solve Netease's technical problems.
Only by helping others solve problems and create value can you win the appreciation of others and help you bridge the gap.
From then on, Ding Lei thought this young man was awesome. In the United States, he introduced Huang Zheng to his former nobleman Duan Yongping. Unexpectedly, they chatted well and became friends. In 2006, Duan Yongping filmed Buffett's lunch and brought Huang Zheng.
When Huang Zheng graduated with a master's degree and didn't know whether to go to Microsoft or Google for an internship? I consulted Master Duan Yongping.
Big Brother gave clear advice: Go to Google and work for three years. Huang Zheng also listened to the big boss's advice. After half a year's work, Google went public, and Huang Zheng's original options accumulated in his work soared, realizing financial freedom by the way.
Luck is also a part of strength. Huang Zheng chose the right place and entered Google. Three years later, he chose to leave his job and return to China to start a business.
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Entrepreneurship and cultivation became famous because of Pinduoduo.
After leaving Google, I started my own business and founded mobile phone e-commerce, e-commerce agents and game companies.
In 20 15, Huang Zheng started his business again, and established Pinduoduo in the mode of social e-commerce platform with suppliers stationed and logistics third-party cooperation. At that time, the e-commerce market in China was dominated by Taobao, and JD.COM was still growing wildly, but the channel of e-commerce platform was close to closing, and no one paid attention to an obscure Pinduoduo.
Ma Yun once said: Many people lose when they lose. For new things, they can't see, look down, don't understand, and it's too late.
This sentence also applies to yourself. When everyone didn't understand why Pinduoduo could fight its way out in the fiercely competitive e-commerce Red Sea market, it had already risen rapidly, and it took three years to go public.
Why can Pinduoduo steal food from Taobao and JD.COM? Because he saw an opportunity to subvert the market.
While Taobao was busy upgrading its consumption, making Tmall a boutique and fighting with JD.COM, Pinduoduo surrounded the city from the countryside through social e-commerce and shared the world with Taobao and JD.COM.
He put his original idea of "turning capitalism upside down" into practice, so that ordinary people can get more favorable goods at lower prices. He grasped the consumer psychology that people like good quality and low price. Even though the times are changing, he succeeded in one fell swoop, relying on Pinduoduo to complete the counterattack from migrant workers to billionaires.
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Money is a tool, not an end.
The ancients once said: one life, two fortunes, three feng shui, four virtues and five studies.
Huang Zheng recalled his middle school and university in his official WeChat account, and said: I am very, very lucky to be able to enter the mixed version of Hangwai and Zhejiang University. Flying out of golden phoenix in the ravine is a small probability event, and some rich second generation, especially the official second generation, are excellent.
The counter-attack of ordinary people can be realized by Tian Ji horse racing: it can create local advantages under the integration of inferior resources, and then have the opportunity to win the "whole battle". In this way, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary things.
When I was in primary school, my teacher always asked a cliche question: What is your dream when you grow up?
Huang Zheng Jr. replied without hesitation: I want to be a scientist.
At present, it is unrealistic for Huang Zheng, who is 4 1 year old, to be a scientist, but he can devote himself to scientific research and make contributions to the scientific cause.
So he donated $6,543.8 billion to his alma mater, Zhejiang University, and devoted himself to research in the fields of food science and life science.
He wants to be a protein robot, which can solve the brain diseases of human body. He wants to develop an artificial meat that can make people eat healthily and safely. When he retired, he didn't forget his childhood dream. Now, he wants to be an ordinary person and do what he likes.
How many people have been destroyed by years now has blurred the distance between dreams and reality.
From the case of Huang Zheng, let us understand that only by achieving ourselves first can we realize our dreams.
May you walk half your life and come back as a teenager.