Ma Yun and Ding Lei are both Zhejiang businessmen and entrepreneurs with great influence in the Internet industry. Ding Lei started earlier and was the founder of Netease, one of the three portals. He started much earlier than Ma Yun. Ding Lei reached the top of China's richest man in 2003, when Ma Yun's Taobao was just created.
In the early days, the two had more interactions and the relationship was a little close.
According to research, in 2005, Taobao and eBay were in full swing, and Taobao was banned by eBay's advertisements. Helpless, Ma Yun only used his own relationship to contact the major portals, hoping that they would accept Taobao's advertisements. Ding Lei agreed at that time, with a certain flavor of supporting fellow villagers.
But then there was a turn for the better. ebay spent a lot of money and told the major portals that as long as they didn't advertise in Taobao, ebay would double the advertising fee. Netease is a public company listed in the United States. Obviously, it is impossible to refuse to double the income and take care of a little fellow villagers' friendship. I guess I dare not control it. You know, American regulators can be merciless, and so many lawyers are waiting for fees. Then Ding Lei was the first to go back on his word and stood the horse up, which left a big knot in the horse's heart.
Then after more than ten years of hard work, Ma Yun turned Alibaba into a multinational company with world-class influence, leaving many established Internet companies such as Netease behind. There is no need to have too many negotiations with Ding Lei at this time.
And because something happened, although it was a business conversation, it did have a certain impact on their personal relationship, so Ding Lei organized a dinner party without inviting Ma Yun to attend.
And Ma Yun doesn't need to show his existence through such a dinner now. His dinner now, as he himself said, "eating a meal is a big deal." Ali's dinner is no less than any dinner in the world. " .
In addition, Ma Yun should have an updated understanding of the dinner: "My favorite dinner has nothing to do with the public. It should be my own life, singing and bragging, I like it. "
As the saying goes, where people live, there are rivers and lakes, and where there are rivers and lakes, there are heroes. It is natural that heroes look at things in a slightly different way.