What love ignores is too high to be cold.

"15 years ago to the United States to 2 million, was rejected by 30 VC. Today is coming again, it will cost 20 billion. " On September 8, Ma Yun made such an opening remark at the Alibaba roadshow. Yesterday, you ignored me, but today, I let you down

"15 years ago to the United States to 2 million, was rejected by 30 VC. Today is coming again, it will cost 20 billion. " On September 8, Ma Yun made such an opening remark at the Alibaba roadshow. According to the prospectus, Ali IPO plans to sell 320 million shares, with a maximum financing of $24.3 billion and a corresponding valuation of $65.438+0627 billion.

Investors who came to participate in the roadshow lined up at Waldorf Astoria and turned 18. After waiting for 40 minutes in the elevator, nearly 65,438+10,000 people came to see Ma Yun.

Myths often begin with jokes, and miracles are often created by lunatics. Yesterday, you ignored me, but today, I let you down

If a person can be described as a day for decades, then only Ma Yun has seen it. . .

Ma Yun said, "As long as there is a dream in this world, as long as you have been studying hard, no matter how you look, no matter whether you are rich or not, you will have a chance."

At that time, Masayoshi Son of Softbank decided to invest 20 million US dollars in Ma Yun in just 6 minutes, because Masayoshi Son "saw the light in Ma Yun's eyes"; However, Xue Manzi dismissed Ma Yun. "What is this guy's future?" Later, Xue Manzi regretted it very much and cried in shame.

Apart from Xue Manzi, there were many people who "despised" Ma Yun in those days, but now they "can't climb high".

The big brothers who missed Ma Yun in those years.

1. Xiong Xiaoge: No Alibaba is our biggest failure.

Xiong Xiaoge is called the man behind Ma Yun, Hua Teng and Li Yanhong, but he is not the man behind Ma Yun.

In 2007, Xiong Shaoge, president of IDG Asia, said at the online business conference, "IDG has invested in many Internet companies in China, including Baidu and Ctrip, and actually left Alibaba in the cold, so this is our biggest failure."

The bear said, it's not that I don't want to vote for Alibaba. Not long ago. When I have a chance to vote, I really can't afford it. If I put all my money into it, I won't get a few percent of the shares.

Xiong Xiaoge expressed his regret to the media like this:

"1999 10, Ma Yun got the first angel investment of US$ 5 million, which was led by Goldman Sachs and combined with the first-class fund companies in the United States, Asia and Europe. Unfortunately, it was finalized in Silicon Valley, and I missed it. In Alibaba's second round of financing, Japan's Softbank began to appear. Since then, this big player has continuously supported Ma Yun, allowing Alibaba to play to today's scale. "

"After 2000, the venture capital portfolio headed by Japan's Softbank has been Ma Yun's guest, and our IDG has been late. In order to enhance the confidence of venture capitalists, Ma Yun acquired Yahoo's China business in 2005 and exchanged 40% of Alibaba's shares for $654.38 billion in cash, completely closing Alibaba's financing door for our IDG. "

2. Ma: Now I regret it.

As a competitor today and a capital hunter in the Internet industry, Ma once had the opportunity to invest in Alibaba, but he didn't cherish it.

20 13 March, when attending the Chinese homecoming, Ma said, "When Taobao was first established, Ma Yun told me that I had the opportunity to invest 15%. One is not optimistic, and the other is that it is too small, and it is necessary to vote for 50%. Now I regret it. "

However, if Ma really invested 15% in Alibaba, would the internet pattern in China be like this?

3. Feng Lun: We were wrong.

Feng Lun is the "philosopher" of entrepreneurs. However, he admits that he sometimes has wrong ideas.

20 13, Feng Lun said in an interview with the media, "When Ma Yun was looking for investment, we voted for his competitor ebay. At that time, Yi Bei was really strong, Ma Yun was weak, and the result was finally wrong. "

Feng Lun said: "Being an enterprise always faces two choices: catching up or transforming. If you make follow-up decisions, then entrepreneurs are very relaxed; Transformation is tiring and risky, but it is possible to become an industry leader. Ma Yun may have been a vulgar intermediary company at that time, called follow suit; But he transformed into an e-commerce and became a leader today. "

Today you ignore me, tomorrow I will make you unattainable.

The internet circle is always full of too many uncertainties and too many legends. Here are some examples for you:

1.In 2009, Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, applied for a job on Facebook, but was rejected. Now, Facebook has spent1900 million dollars to acquire WhatsApp.

2. When Ma Yun and Youku founder Gu Yongqiang competed for the position of chief operating officer of Sohu, Gu Yongqiang defeated Ma Yun. Now, Ma Yun's Alibaba has invested in Youku Tudou in Gu Yongqiang;

3. When Ma considered selling QQ for 600,000 yuan, he negotiated with four companies, all of which ended in failure. Now, the price of a horse can only make everyone hehe;

4. Another story is that after QQ became bigger, Ma went to the founder of Sina and asked him if he wanted $654.38+500,000. Wang Zhidong looked at it and thought I spent $654.38 million on your stuff. So I refused to buy it.

5. 1999, Li Zekai once held a 20% stake in Tencent, but sold it in a hurry two years later. If you still hold a 20% stake in Tencent today, twice as much as Ma, you will become the richest man in China. He can not only really get out of the shadow of his father Li Ka-shing, but also master the supreme authority of the Internet industry in China. This is nature!

6. Apple is also looked down upon. 1976, nolan bushnell, the founder of Atari, only needed to invest $50,000 to acquire a third of Apple's shares, but he pushed the opportunity to Sequoia Capital. Unfortunately, the investors of Sequoia Capital turned a deaf ear to Steve Jobs with disheveled clothes and long hair shawls. In the end, due to mistakes, Markkula invested $250,000 when Apple was about to go bankrupt, and got a 30% stake in Apple, becoming the first investor of Apple.