Chapter 17 Ma Yun broke his promise to "enter the game"

Ma Yun is the most capable speaker among all entrepreneurs in China. His words have been published into many books, and all of them can sell hundreds of thousands of copies.He is also the one with the best oral communication skills among all entrepreneurs in China.A few years ago, there was a saying "northern cattle and southern horses", referring to the fact that the most eloquent person to the north of the Yangtze River is Niu Gensheng, while Ma Yun is the best speaker to the south of the Yangtze River.If the "cows and horses" hold meetings together, no one else can get in the way.

Jack Ma has spoken a lot, but there is an idiom in China that says too much talk will lead to loss.If a person speaks a lot of words, and people record these words very carefully, and after a few years, people take them out to see if the person has fulfilled these words, then they will find that some of them may have been blown away by the wind . Next, let's talk about the words that Ma Yun said have been blown away by the wind. Among these blown away words of Ma Yun, the most famous sentence is about games. You know, online games are very controversial in China's Internet world.There is an old story. In September 2010, Jack Ma held the sixth "West Lake Discussion of Swords" in Hangzhou. At that time, many Internet company leaders came.Why are so many big guys here?In fact, they didn't come to discuss major events related to the Internet, but to come to see Clinton - Jack Ma invited Clinton to the "West Lake Discussion of Swords" that year.I was also there that time.

When several entrepreneurs were giving a speech on the stage, suddenly a middle-aged woman stood up, pointed at Ding Lei on the stage and said, "I will kill you." Ding Lei was taken aback and asked why.It turned out that because her son was addicted to an online game, she had a dispute with her son, so the son ran away from home and had not been found at that time. Ding Lei asked her: "What game is your son playing?" The middle-aged woman said: "My son is playing." Ding Lei said, "That's not my game, it's Chen Tianqiao's game." Therefore, online games have been very controversial for a long time.

Ma Yun once said that he would starve to death and never play games in this life.Even once, when former Premier Wen Jiabao visited Alibaba, he said something like this to Premier Wen: "We firmly believe that games cannot change China. China is a one-child family. If all children play games, the future of the country will be What should we do? So we don’t invest a penny in the game. We applaud when others vote, but we don’t do it. This is one of our principles.” This is a very famous passage by Jack Ma. But it is a pity that in January 2014, Alibaba announced the official launch of the mobile game platform and stated that it would break Tencent's monopoly in this field.When Ma Yun entered the field of mobile games, not only did Alibaba not starve to death, but it was already the most profitable Internet company in China. In the fourth quarter of 2013, Alibaba’s turnover was 18.9 billion yuan, and its net profit was 8.8 billion yuan, the net profit margin reached 44%.So Alibaba is definitely not a company that is going to starve to death, but Ma Yun still proposed to make games.