Stories of successful people in enterprises

In a person's life, reading the stories of some successful business people with philosophy and wisdom can not only broaden their horizons and cultivate their temperament, but also gain valuable knowledge and experience, which will have a decisive impact on a person's life. The following is the story of successful business people I prepared for you. I hope you like it!

Stories of successful people in enterprises (1)

He is a mathematical genius and a chess master, and likes the works of Solzhenitsyn and Rand. In the global internet community, venture capitalist Peter? Thiel is a name that cannot be bypassed. Because people in the industry are always looking forward to hearing what new projects this "prophet" figure is interested in, and also because of his successful entrepreneurial and investment experience and his ability to turn stone into gold.

PayPal listed, the first bucket of gold in life.

University Avenue, located in the most prosperous area of Palo Alto, is the outpost for the release of scientific and technological products in Silicon Valley. There is a room called cafe in this street. Cafe in Venice. Peter. Most of Thiel's industries are built in Caf? Looking around Venice, the guests in this cafe are all people who use Apple devices and are not very well dressed but full of energy. Their discussion topics are inseparable from their own creativity and venture capital. 1In the summer of 998, Max, a 23-year-old Ukrainian programmer who just came to San Francisco? Max Levchin listened to Thiel's lecture on currency trading at Stanford University. The next day, they met in Palo Alto, hoping to establish an electronic payment system to make e-commerce transactions simple, unified and secure, which is the prototype of PayPal in the future. In 2002, Thiel and his friend Allen were in this cafe? Elon Musk met to discuss whether to list PayPal and reached an agreement. Finally, this electronic payment company, founded in 1998, went public successfully, with a market value of about1200 million US dollars, becoming the first large-scale IPO after the "9 1 1" incident. Subsequently, PayPal was acquired by Yi Bei for $654.38+05 billion, and Thiel got the first bucket of gold in his life? 55 million dollars.

Venture capital, turning stone into gold

Thiel, who was financially free, then devoted himself to venture capital. He renamed Thiel Capital Management, which was founded in 1996, Clarium Capital Management, and injected 1000000 USD into it. Since then, Thiel has been patiently looking for promising startups. At that time, social networking, an area that few people liked, was considered as the next dangerous Internet bubble, but Thiel was still full of confidence. In the summer of 2004, Hoffman and Silicon Valley urchin Sean? Sean parker introduced Thiel to Zuckerberg, who was looking for major investors for Facebook. Thiel provided $500,000 in start-up capital for Facebook, when the company was valued at less than $5 million. This is Facebook's first foreign investment. This investment won him a 7% stake in Facebook and became a member of the company's board of directors. Although Thiel sold nearly half of the shares in the following years and the remaining shares were further diluted by Facebook's multiple rounds of financing, Thiel still holds about 3% of the shares. If calculated by the market value of $654.38+000 billion after Facebook's listing, the value of Thiel's shares is expected to reach $3 billion, and the return on investment will exceed 6,000 times. What about Mark? Zuckerberg created Facebook, a miracle that changed human life style, so Peter? Peter thiel, born in 1964, is the driving force behind this miracle. The American internet community once again remembered Thiel's name.

A year later, he set up the Founders Fund with US$ 50 million. After setting up the Foundation, he invested in a series of highly innovative start-up companies, including YouTube, photo sharing software companies Slide and Yelp, Palantir Technologie, which develops software for searching for terrorists and financial fraud, electric car company Chris and micro-credit company Kiva. These companies turned out to be very successful It can be said that Thiel is the most successful technology venture capitalist in the world.

How to choose promising entrepreneurs? Thiel said that he would ask every entrepreneur seeking investment the most important question, that is, "Why did the 20th employee join your company?" Thiel thinks: "It's easy to explain why some people want to be CEOs or join startups as early employees, because they want to run a company or get rich by joining early startups. It is also easy to know why the1000th employee is willing to join, because it is obvious that the company is on the road of growth, and joining can earn a stable income. But the 20th employee will have many different meanings. Because most of your company's equity has been allocated when the company 19 employees joined, but the company has not succeeded, so in order to stabilize income, your company is not a place worth joining. " "I will only vote for the company that answers this question, that is, the 20th employee will join in, because the company is doing something brand-new and different."

Contradictory complex, "born to win"

Thiel 1967 was born in Frankfurt, Germany. His father is a chemical engineer. His father Klaus has repeatedly jumped ship in several large engineering enterprises. He always took his family everywhere and finally settled in Foster, 20 miles south of San Francisco. Thiel goes to primary school in seven different places. Finally, in the fifth grade, he settled in Foster in San Francisco Bay. Gentel's early growth environment was full of self-confidence, intelligence and loneliness. He is a genius in mathematics and a chess master. His chess board is pasted with the motto of life "Born to win". When he was a teenager, his favorite reading was The Lord of the Rings, and he always read it again and again. At the same time, he also likes the works of Solzhenitsyn and Rand. Thiel grew up in a Christian family and believed in Christianity, but in high school, he began to believe in libertarianism and even became an extreme believer in libertarianism. He described his faith as "a little heretical" and said, "I believe in Christ. But I don't try to convince others to keep the same faith as me. " At the same time, Thiel, as _ _, is also an out-and-out homosexual, which is one of the concrete manifestations of Thiel being called ambivalent by the outside world. In this regard, he said, "In my mind, identity exists in various subtle forms. I think gays, blacks and women all have profound and different experiences. I also believe that everyone has an exaggerated trend and has raised it to the ideological field. " Obviously, Thiel is a typical contradiction complex. He lives or does business in his utopia and enjoys it.

The information age has brought Thiel great wealth, but he is still disappointed. He believes that the internet technology revolution has not created enough jobs, nor has it improved the manufacturing level and social productivity. Innovation in the virtual world cannot replace technological progress in the real world. Thiel rarely updates his Facebook page. He is also "not used to using things like BlackBerry, iPhone or email." It was not until a year ago that he started texting.

Firmly believe that innovation saves the world.

Now, Thiel, who made a lot of money on social media, has a new goal? Funding for those "ideas that can save the world" is, in his words, at least "raising our civilization to a higher level". Thiel believes that almost all the problems in the world, such as the defects of government institutions and education systems, lingering financial turmoil, market bubbles, energy crises and resource wars, all stem from the stagnation of scientific and technological innovation, and the only way to save them can only be a drastic scientific breakthrough. At present, Thiel has invested a lot of money in companies that focus on crazy ideas such as extending life, moving to offshore platforms, commercialization of space, friendly artificial intelligence, and modifying DNA sequences to accelerate evolution. Recently, his Thiel Foundation has invested in another remarkable project? Fresh meat 3D printing technology startup company.

Modern Meadow, a company engaged in the research of 3D printing technology for fresh meat, is located in Missouri, USA. It is said that it has received a six-figure investment from the Thiel Foundation. According to the company, through special treatment and cultivation of different types of special structural layers, test-tube meat can become edible, and it can also provide the human body with the required protein. The company said that it was engaged in this research to reduce the environmental impact of large-scale farming. At present, the meat produced is 2 cm long, 1 cm wide and half a millimeter thick. "We look forward to attracting a group of early consumers who like cooking and vegetarianism for moral reasons. Then with the gradual reduction of prices, more religious vegetarians (such as Hindus, Jews and Muslims) are recognized, and finally hope to provide safe and secure pork products for the general public. "

At present, Thiel ranks 365th on the Forbes list with a net asset of $6,543.8+$50 million. Thiel's contribution to the Internet world is not only as a venture capitalist, but also his unique thinking ability. In any case, Thiel's dream is to change the world.