Chapter 18 Ma Yun's "Logistics and Retirement"

The second blown away sentence is about logistics. As we all know, the rise of Taobao has driven the prosperity of the entire Chinese logistics industry. Almost half of the business sources of the top four logistics companies in China come from cooperation with Alibaba. In order to support these downstream enterprises, Jack Ma once said that Alibaba will never be a logistics company. However, by 2010, Alibaba had invested in a logistics company called Morning Star Express - which later closed down.Later, at the end of that year, Taobao officially announced that it would invest 100 billion yuan to build Taobao's own logistics platform.

The third sentence is in May 2013, Jack Ma announced his official retirement. This was big national news at the time.At that time, many media came to interview me and asked me my opinion on Jack Ma's retirement.At that time, I thought that Ma Yun would not retire, because this generation of entrepreneurs should be like Li Ka-shing and Wang Yongqing in the future, and continue to fight on the front line until they fall at the desk.People of their generation all believed in a sentence that Comrade Lenin once said, "Where is the end of a soldier? The end of a soldier is a cemetery."

Moreover, the entire team of Alibaba was still immature at that time. Its small and micro financial groups, such as Alipay, had not yet completed the closure of products, and Alibaba Group had not yet been listed.So in fact, it should not be the time for Jack Ma to retire. But in May 2013, Jack Ma announced his retirement in a high-profile manner. He even announced two industries he would like to do in the future-one is education and the other is green environmental protection. However, 18 days after his retirement speech on May 10, Jack Ma invested in a new company called "Cainiao Network Technology Co., Ltd." Businesses grow and create 10 million jobs.

His retirement has also turned into a particularly oolong thing. Therefore, in the Internet age, especially in a fast-growing enterprise, entrepreneurs must think carefully before speaking, because time does change many, many decisions. In fact, not only Jack Ma, there are many very famous entrepreneurs in China. They all said something that was blown away by the wind and they wanted to eat it back.For example: Ren Zhengfei, there was a very famous "Huawei Basic Law", the first article is "We will never enter the information service industry".But by 2014, the information service segment was the fastest-growing module in Huawei's entire business module.

Zong Qinghou once said, "I will not enter the baijiu industry." In 2013, Wahaha started to make baijiu. Liu Qiangdong said that JD.com will not set foot in the online book sales market within five years. Six months after he finished his sentence, JD.com Books Channel was launched. Zhou Hongyi said that Qihoo 360 will not set foot in the field of antivirus, but everyone knows that the main business of Qihoo 360 is in the field of free antivirus. Chen Nian said that Fancl Eslite never makes women's clothing, but now Fancl Eslite not only makes women's clothing, but also makes kitchen knives.

Huang Zhang said that the price of Meizu M9 will not be reduced until production is discontinued. In fact, the price has been reduced many times. In an uncertain world, you can never be sure of your future.