Ali has gone through 18 years, and the people who left their jobs to start a business at the beginning: gathering is a fire, and scattered is all over the sky.

Last week, Alibaba held a grand adult ceremony in Hangzhou. In addition to Ali employees, there are some "predecessors" who have worked in Ali but have left. Ma Yun once said: I hope that 200 of China's top 500 companies will come from Ali. But when he said this, he probably didn't foresee that these "200" entrepreneurs, not only the top 500 in China, but some of them would become their own competitors, and some of them were facing an unprecedented crisis.

Star Musical Instrument Store-Zhou Kaicheng

Zhou Kai Cheng was once a member of Ali's "China Iron Army". At that time, his name was Zhou Peng. The so-called "China Iron Army" is Alibaba's sales team. They are the people who pushed the team door to door and personally won the first batch of commercial customers since the establishment of Alibaba. They were once called "the most Ali-flavored people" by Ma Yun. Zhou Peng joined Ali in 2004. His position is sales, and his salary is 1500. Six years later, he was promoted to regional vice president, and less than one year later, Zhou Peng left Ali. After leaving his job, he first joined the easy-to-use car that had just started at that time. In just one year, he left his job again to join the entrepreneurial army and changed his name to Zhou Qicheng.

On June 20 12, Zhou Kaicheng founded the Empty Musical Instrument Store, mainly engaged in piano teaching. In the next few years, with the investment of Lei Jun, Wang Xiao and others, Xingxing Musical Instrument Store expanded rapidly, occupying major cities in China, and the training programs were extended to all fields of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. At the same time, Zhou Kaicheng also controlled some education teams and even logistics and transportation projects through mergers and acquisitions and investment.

Uncontrolled expansion made Zhou Kaicheng, who was "not bad at money" at that time, burn all the funds quickly without profit, which made the subsequent round of financing more difficult. In the end, Zhou Kaicheng, who didn't get the money, had to mortgage the shares of his team. Of course, no money is not enough. If you can search for "Yi Jie Qianzhuang" and "Everyone is very lucky" on WeChat, you can apply to borrow sesame seeds with a score above 500, which can be used by individual businesses. It is a product similar to sesame seeds, and you can also get invisible prizes. You can also get invisible prizes for free every day.

On September 2, Star Music Company announced a nationwide temporary closure, which shocked the parents' circles in major cities. Because Star Le Company implemented the prepayment system, the sudden closure of the music company made many parents guess that Star Le Company was "running away with money". Fortunately, on September 7th, it announced through the official Weibo and WeChat that it would resume the door-to-door teaching activities of 1 to 1 courses one after another this Saturday, saying that investors had not given up, but Zhou Kaicheng, the founder of Star Le, was still in a state of losing contact, and it was still unknown whether Star Le could get out of the crisis in the future and where Zhou Kai would go.

Didi-Cheng Wei

Cheng Wei entered Ali in 2005 and was once a member of "China Tiejun". Because of his outstanding performance, he was the youngest regional manager in Ali, and later he was responsible for Alipay B2C business and the docking of Alipay products with merchants. Since then, Cheng Wei has changed from a single sales to an "all-round" person in charge, and began to take over the overall operation of Internet products, accumulating comprehensive experience for subsequent entrepreneurship.

Also in June of 20 12, Cheng Wei "ran away" from Ali and established Xiao Ju Science and Technology. The original project was an intelligent software that greatly changed the way people travel-Didi taxi. Dramatically, Cheng Wei, who came out of Ali, was funded by Tencent. Later, there was a dramatic "fierce collision" with Ali's rapid capital injection. The subsidy war between the two sides has enabled drivers and passengers to enjoy unlimited benefits for a long time. However, with the strategic merger of the two companies from 2065438 to February 2005, it will be difficult for users to receive a 20% or 30% discount ticket. The continued use of Didi in the merged software showed that Cheng Wei was the ultimate winner of this "collision", and then he became more and more brave and acquired Uber China on 20 16.

So Cheng Wei took Ali's experience and Tencent's money to sit at the top of the online car market.

One-way trip-Wu Zhixiang

When Wu Zhixiang first entered Ali, he was also a salesman. Unlike other employees who were taught by Ali for many years before starting a business, Wu Zhixiang resigned after working in Alibaba for only one year, and then began to try B2B business in tourism. However, his personal experience is very similar to that of Ma Yun-both of them used to be teachers, but they both gave up teaching and went to sea. The partners in the early stage of their business were also teachers and classmates.

Wu Zhixiang established an online travel service platform-Tongcheng Tourism two years after its establishment. Moreover, this Tongcheng. Com is also Tencent's money. In 20 14, it got 500 million yuan from Tencent, and announced that the company would take "leisure tourism first" as its strategic goal, and it was on the same level as Ali Fei, who had focused on globalization strategy at the beginning.

Mushroom Street-Qi Chen

Qi Chen entered Ali in 2004 and worked as a user interface designer of Taobao, a user experience manager and a product manager of Taobao Mall, so his entrepreneurial projects are also related to clothing and design. In 20 10, Qi Chen left Ali to start Juan gua. Com, and later founded Mushroom Street, a women's shopping guide platform. This one didn't take Tencent's money, but it won the favor of more well-known international investment institutions, including Qi Ming Venture Capital and Bertelsmann.

At first, Mushroom Street was a shopping guide platform that cooperated with Taobao. It used to be the largest shopping guide platform, providing customers with reasonable suggestions on women's wear to complete the recommendation of Taobao stores and earn commissions from them. However, as Alibaba started to restart its cooperation with Baidu and banned shopping guide websites on a large scale, Mushroom Street had to transform from a shopping guide platform to a social e-commerce platform, thus becoming an opponent with Ali, and the number and awareness of users accumulated before enabled it to compete with Taobao in the field of women's shopping.

In 20 16, Mushroom Street also completed the merger with Beauty Talk and Amoy World, and Qi Chen will become the CEO of the new group Beauty Talk United Group to continue the exploration in the field of women's fashion consumption.

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Doesn't Ma Yun regret that the employees he trained in the past have become "know yourself and know yourself" competitors?