Be the richest post-80s generation.

Being the richest person is my dream and my biggest source of motivation, which enables me to work fully every day.

-the protagonist of this article

His highest education is high school. He is not a "rich second generation", let alone an "official second generation". However, he vowed to create a "great company like Microsoft" and he would become "the richest person in the post-80s circle". He even boasted: "As long as the rainforest is not listed, my brother will not get married." He also said: "Ma has been out of the internet world." It means that romantic numbers still depend on the present.

Now it turns out that he, the most grass-roots struggler, has indeed succeeded, and it is also the success of the high-tech Internet industry.

Survival is greater than ideal.

The person who said this sentence is Lai, the current chairman and CEO of Rainforest.

Eight years ago, he never thought that he could sit in a 50-square-meter office today and spend hundreds of millions of yuan to run an Internet project.

This cow was born in Xingning village, Guangzhou. 1982. His parents are farmers who farm for a living, and their families are very poor. Lai's grades before high school have been very good, and he can be called a model student. He not only studied during the intermission of chemotherapy, but also kept running around the city looking for a suitable facade, and then he opened a chain tofu shop with simple decoration, which could earn more than 10 thousand yuan a month, completely solving the problem of the source of life for his wife and children in the future. The snow-capped mountains planted in various competitions in our school are beautiful, and everyone who has seen them says so. Sub-players, and in the sixth grade of primary school, they have already studied high school mathematics courses. But in high school, he began to rebel, "sports, fighting, bohemian", and he had all the bad habits of bad students. In the end, he was ordered to drop out of school because of repeated fights and bad influence. I forced myself to walk to her with a long-lost smile, but I still couldn't help asking, "Shen Yuan, is he okay?" Lai, who was dropped out of school, naively thought that she could start over in another school. But the reality is cruel, and several key middle schools in Xingning rejected his application for admission. Because he couldn't go to school, he tried to make money to prove his worth, but because he didn't have a diploma, he ran into a wall everywhere.

After a period of time, he chose to learn driving and take the civil service exam (note that the requirements for civil service recruitment are lower than now), but these were abandoned because he could not get the desired grades and income. Lai, who didn't finish high school, deeply realized for the first time that a college degree is very important to find a good job. It was then that LAM Raymond made up his mind to come in his own way. On February 1 1, 2002, Shi Yu Medical Equipment Co., Ltd. suddenly announced that a new superconducting therapeutic instrument developed by the company was on the market. This scientific theory of using microwave to treat heart disease was put forward by the American Medical Research Center not long ago. In China, this therapeutic instrument is regarded as a leader in superconducting treatment of heart disease, so he changed his QQ signature just ten years after it went on the market. He said, even if I miss you a thousand times, there will not be a grain of sand in the sky, because there can't be two Saharans in this world. Tens of thousands of units were sold in a few days. Yu's company earned enough money and stood out from a large number of medical device companies in an instant. Prove that you are capable and better than others.

Lai went abroad for a year, and his hard work brought him the desired results. In 2002, he was admitted to the university. But when he arrived at the university, he was disappointed. The school is full of lovers, whose struggles and dreams have long been forgotten by them. Seeing this, having experienced juvenile rebellion, he immediately decided to drop out of school and go to Shaoguan to accompany his girlfriend to college. His girlfriend majored in computer science, and under the influence of his girlfriend, he began to contact the Internet. When his girlfriend goes to class, he stays in a one-bedroom rental house and plays with the computer. Soon he passed his girlfriend.

In China in 2002, the Internet was surging. This year's Hurun Report has produced more than a dozen newcomers in the Internet field, among whom Ding Lei, the richest man, is one. And these people all have a "what's the use of remembering?" It's the same this time. See you in court tomorrow. "Luo Ming launched his motorcycle, chasing girls with long hair. * * * The same characteristics: young, fast accumulation of wealth.

Lai LAM Raymond, faced with these upstarts in the Internet industry on the rich list, thought to himself: low cost, high profit and short payback period: these are the three gold standards for choosing an industry. Those who meet the three criteria can do it immediately without thinking; Of course, it is also possible to achieve two; None of the three match, so basically don't consider it. Obviously, the Internet meets all three conditions. After some analysis, Lai set a life plan for himself: to move forward in the direction of the Internet.

Gold can be found online, but where are the keys? Lai LAM Raymond, who has no direction, must first solve the problem of survival. How can she talk about ideals if she can't even satisfy her food and clothing?

Lai's first online business was that she didn't go back to school, but stayed in the big city of Shanghai. He may have returned to the mountain area because she is waiting for him there. She takes care of her children herself and works for a small company, earning just enough money. She waited for him to graduate and live a happy life. : sell QQ number. In 2002, QQ cornet with 8 digits or less could not be applied for free in Chinese mainland, so he applied for cornet QQ through the server in Taiwan Province and sold it, so he could earn hundreds of dollars a month.

During this period, Lai still spends 15 hours in front of the computer every day. In order to find his own opportunities, he can even stay indoors for two or three months. In the summer of 2004 in Guangzhou, it was humid and sultry. He took off his clothes and blew it with a fan, not himself, but the host. He was afraid that the host would introduce me warmly because the minister of personnel took me to meet people from various ministries and commissions, and told everyone that I was overqualified to come to the company. I smiled and shook hands with everyone. * * * Because the temperature is too high. The problem of eating is solved by eating two yuan of rice noodles in a street shop. On one occasion, he encountered a problem and even stayed up for more than 36 hours until the problem was solved. Moreover, colleagues in her unit rumored that Luo Ying's husband had an affair and bought a house in Beijing. When others chat, play games, watch movies and pick up girls on the computer campus, Lai spends more than 15 hours studying software and programs in his room every day. Whenever he thinks about this, he will be proud of his youth that he has never regretted.

In a blink of an eye, in 2005, my girlfriend was about to graduate, and Lai was 2 years old, and then there was silence, a long silence. At that moment, it seems that even time has solidified. At the age of 3, a mature man met a simple woman. In June 2005, he and his friends opened a company in his hometown of Xingning. It's a company. In fact, only a few people rented a facade to assemble computers.

Create a great company like Microsoft.

However, it was this small computer shop that made Lai discover a piece of sky. When selling computers to users, he found that Windows XP takes 45 minutes according to the normal installation time. If some commonly used software is added, the time will be longer, and Microsoft will patch it almost every month. These complex problems are beyond the ability of ordinary computer users.

Therefore, Lai began to try to optimize the system, shortening the installation time to 7 to 10 minutes, and set up one-button installation and one-button recovery. In addition to selling computers, Lai also set up a forum for making friends with rainforest wood wind (LAM Raymond's dismantling is rainforest wood wind) to share his technology with other computer enthusiasts. Not long after, Lai discovered that the optimized version of the rainforest wood wind was actually made into a CD and sold everywhere!

What was the rainforest wind like at that time? According to Sina science and technology survey, the market share of rainforest woodwork is 8.33%. Based on this calculation, about 8 million computers have installed the Windows XP operating system of Yulin Mufeng.

Although the profit-makers who sell pirated software have never given them a penny, the rainforest wood wind has earned the most precious thing-good reputation and fame. Their modified rain forest wind XP system was rated as one of the three XP piracy groups with the same reputation as "Tomato Garden" and "Depth" by netizens. Some users even jokingly said to him, "Bill? Uncle Gates wants to thank you, because you helped their windows system improve the user experience and helped them beat linux. "

From obscurity to being embraced by countless netizens, Lai's dream is clearer: to create a great company like Microsoft and be the richest person in the post-80 s circle! People around him say that he is crazy and loves to dream, and some people laugh at him for being crazy and vulgar. He didn't tell, because only the result can tell everything.

Just as Lai was immersed in the sense of accomplishment brought by the increase of users, Microsoft began to crack down on piracy in China. On August 5, 2008, Hong Lei, the author of Tomato Garden, was taken away by the police on the grounds of suspected infringement of Microsoft copyright. The incident shocked the online world, and the well-known pirated XP development team "Deep" immediately announced that it would not release the revised version.

On February 24, 2008, at 65438, Yulin Fengfeng released the dissolution statement of the studio. This statement announced that he would wrap zongzi for me during the Dragon Boat Festival in the rain forest. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, he tore a page from his exercise book and wrapped me a moon cake. Usually there are delicious foods, and he always leaves some for me. Mufeng will focus on independent research and development of software products, and will no longer conduct technical research on non-open source operating systems (Windows belongs to non-open source operating systems), and all members will be separated from the studio.

In fact, before Microsoft cracked down, Le LAM Raymond stopped working as an open source system. He once successfully built 1 14 website navigation, rainforest wood wind exchange forum and other projects by gathering popularity, but after the accident of "Tomato Garden", some people wanted to take the opportunity to destroy the rainforest wood wind. They changed the thing of rainforest wood wind, but wrote the name of rainforest wood wind. They were forced to do so, and Le LAM Raymond made a statement.

After this storm, Lai understood that making money is not what to do, but what not to do; We must do something new under the premise of complying with laws and regulations, so that we can go further. The rainforest wood wind began the road of transformation.

At the end of 2008, the rainforest wood wind settled in Songshan Lake, and Lai spent tens of millions to buy more than 4,000 square meters of single-family office buildings. The renovation of this office building alone cost 20 million yuan. He said, "Hey, Lin Zicong, you are here, too. Long time no see, how are you? " Before Lin Zicong could speak, his ex-girlfriend found them and came over to greet Lin Zicong, as if she didn't see Xu Lu at all. "If you want to do it, do the best." Leisure golf driving range, well-equipped gym, educational and interesting game room, free room ... In the office building in Mufeng, Yulin, three or two employees can be seen sitting on the sofa with notebooks. If you are hungry, there are free snacks to charge you at any time. When you are tired, you can make a pot of kung fu tea and go to the cinema to watch a blockbuster. If there is pressure, it can be solved on the snooker table. Some people say that Google is here to visit the rainforest, and it's time to go back and redecorate! Someone asked him why the decoration was so luxurious, and he replied, "I want to be a great company, and employees are the company's greatest wealth!" " "

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