In 1999, in a community called Lakeside Garden, 16 three-story buildings, eighteen people gathered in a dilapidated house for a meeting. Jack Ma stood in the middle and talked for two full hours. This "fools" them into starting a business together. During the meeting, there was a classic quote. Jack Ma took out his own money and said, "Start-up capital must be spare money, and you are not allowed to borrow it from family and friends, because the possibility of failure is extremely high."
Then he continued. He also said, "Now, each of you save some money for food, and take out all the rest." It was the spare money put together by these eighteen people that became the initial capital for Jack Ma to found Alibaba. This is the origin of the allusion of Jack Ma's Eighteen Arhats. These eighteen people are also called the Eighteen Arhats.
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The outside world has always had a misunderstanding, thinking that these 18 people generally have low levels of education, got into bad luck, and became a blockbuster.
Looking at their academic qualifications, almost all of them are college students; looking at their place of origin, they come from all over the country; talking about luck, from China Yellow Pages to Alibaba, many people left their jobs early due to various reasons, but those who persisted were extremely firm in their beliefs. people.
They also have one thing in common. They are both non-conformist people who dare to try, take risks and innovate. The most important thing is to dare to reset to zero again and again and start over. In Xiaoyaozi's words, Alibaba people are basically people who break out of barriers to find themselves.
This was the employee of China Yellow Pages back then, and also the Eighteen Arhats of Alibaba.
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