The story of celebrities persisting in their beliefs and pursuing their ideals 1: Ma Yun

In September, 1999, Alibaba's website was established, and Ma Yun was determined to make it a guide for small and medium-sized enterprises to knock on the door of wealth. In October, Alibaba received $5 million in venture capital led by Goldman Sachs. One thing Ma Yun immediately started was to introduce a large number of external talents from Hong Kong and the United States.

ma yun declared that "entrepreneurs can only hold positions below the company commander, and all the positions above the head level are held by MBA". At that time, all the members of Alibaba's 12 senior management team came from overseas except Ma Yun himself.

In the next few years, Alibaba hired more MBAs, including those from Harvard and Stanford, as well as those from domestic universities. But then 95% of these MBAs were fired by Ma Yun. Ma Yun later recalled: I argued with Professor Zhang Weiying of Peking University. First of all, I admitted that my level was relatively poor, and 95% of my MBA was fired by me. Aren't they wrong? How is it possible that I fired 95%? There must be a mistake. Because when these MBAs come in and tell you that the annual salary is at least 111 thousand yuan, they are all strategies. Every time you listen to those experts talking to MBA, you have a boiling passion, and then you don't know where to start.

Ma Yun said, what do you learn first when you enter a business school? As an entrepreneur, the success of small entrepreneurs depends on shrewdness, the success of middle entrepreneurs depends on management, and the success of big entrepreneurs depends on being a man. Therefore, the first thing that business education should teach to cultivate MBA is to be a man. Ma Yun's evaluation of these MBAs is: "The basic etiquette, professionalism and professionalism are very bad." As soon as these people enter Alibaba, they seem to be in charge of people. As soon as they come in, they will overthrow all the things of the entrepreneurs in front.