Xu Dan: The Difficult Road from Rural Baby to CEO Worth Over 100 Million

Compared with the big names on the Internet, the name Xu Dan may not be familiar to everyone.

If Liu went to college with the hope of the whole village, then Xu Dan went to college with hatred for the countryside.

He said: "When I left home, I looked back at our village and told myself that I would never come back in my life."

In the countryside, if you don't have a father, anyone can bully you, because you are poor and no one wants to lend you money.

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Xu Dan —— Founder of 3W Coffee Cafe, founder and CEO of Lagou.

3WCoffee is a coffee shop operating entity under 3W.

3W is a leading network of entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs and investors in China Internet industry. Is a corporatized organization, whose business includes angel investment, clubs, corporate public relations, conference organization, cafes and so on.

The so-called mixed circle, 3W is the real mixed circle.

Some people say that Xu Dan's story is best written as a struggle legend.

1982 was born in rural Anhui. In the five years after graduation, he changed jobs three times, from an Internet company employee with an annual salary of 65,438+10,000 yuan to an Internet analyst with an annual salary of several million yuan. Later, I resigned and started a business.

Ambition and poverty are brothers in trouble, and the world often sees them together.

Xu Dan was born in 1982. His father died at the age of 13. There are two younger brothers and one younger sister at home. Xu Dan is the boss of the family. After his father died, there was no labor force at home, so his mother had to take him and his brother to work in the fields, 13 years old.

Xu Dan said that because there was no father at home, he was often bullied by people around him. This is his only memory of the countryside.

13 years old, Xu Dan was a little ignorant at first. When his father died, he knew what he was going to face next.

Due to neglect of discipline, he began to play billiards and fall in love. His mother wanted him to go out to work, but because he was too young, she asked him to repeat his studies in the third grade for one year.

After breaking up with girls, there is still one month before the senior high school entrance examination. Xu Dan began to review for the senior high school entrance examination, but he was admitted.

He was not only admitted to high school, but also won the first place in the first semester exam. At that time, Xu Dan just felt lucky and got the first place in the final exam. Good luck again and again makes the teacher feel that this is a rare prospect.

So the high school couldn't afford the tuition, so the class teacher took him to the principal's house to plead together and helped him reduce some tuition fees.

When he didn't have enough to eat, the teacher called the whole class to raise money for him. However, it is this fund-raising and family poverty that actually makes Xu Dan feel extremely inferior in high school life.

After the college entrance examination, due to the information blocking, the results that could have been admitted to Peking University were reported to Beijing Chemical Industry, which made Xu Dan feel bitter all the time. Later, he began to study day and night.

Water stirs the sound of stone, and people stir up ambition. Finally, Xu Dan was admitted to Peking University for a master's degree.

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I was admitted to Peking University not only because of my resentment, but also because of my dissatisfaction with my family.

I raised my own tuition for going to college. I never asked my family for a penny. When I left home, I dragged my suitcase and set foot on the road to Beijing alone.

When I was admitted to the university, I was dissatisfied with my stepfather, because there were two younger brothers and a younger sister under me, so many children could not afford it. Originally, I wanted Xu Dan to stay at home and take care of his younger brother and sister, but I didn't expect him to go to college resolutely.

Stepfather repeatedly asked his mother to leave them and run away from home. That's how her mother abandoned the family back and forth, and then abandoned it when she came back. This has always cast a shadow over Xu Dan's heart, and she never wants to go home again.

He was unhappy in his life in Beihua, so he went to Peking University and decided to change his old image and "turn over a new leaf".

Because no one here knows him, no one knows his past.

Xu Dan of Peking University is happy. Peking University has completely turned him into a cheerful person, and he has also walked out of inferiority because of Peking University.

Once became a network celebrity on campus BBS.

In order to go out early to make money, Xu completed his postgraduate credits in the first year and began to engage in various part-time jobs in the second year.

However, the teacher didn't agree with him, thinking that he influenced the school atmosphere, so Xu Dan's entrepreneurship came to an end for the time being.

But entrepreneurship has planted seeds in his heart.

Sexual infatuation leads to mental retardation.

After graduation, Xu Dan jumped ship three times in five years and worked as an intern in three companies before.

Everything is laying the foundation for his entrepreneurship.

My first job after graduation was in Tencent. At that time, Tencent was still a shabby small company. When Xu Dan went to Tencent, he was somewhat dissatisfied. He said, "Ma Hua Teng is a big shot. I am from Peking University, but I want to work for him. "

So with this dissatisfaction, Xu Dan found another job in a foreign company and planned to leave Tencent.

Just as he was about to leave his job, he met an important person in his life.

At the Peking University Walking Alumni Association, when everyone introduced themselves, Xu Dan expressed his intention to leave his job and go to a consulting company. When the alumni's brother asked him why he left his job, Xu Dan said that he got an offer with an annual salary of 200,000.

At that time, my brother said coldly, "Isn't 200,000 poor?" Xu Dan was completely awakened.

When he first intended to leave his job, he was completely confused. Is the future of the internet as my brother said? This kept Xu Dan awake all night.

People are unchangeable, so they can change and get stuck in their minds.

This time, Xu Dan did not leave his job, but chose to continue his efforts. A few years later, he got an annual salary of one million.

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This experience has planted the seeds of the Internet for Xu Dan, who is already a mature Internet analyst.

But he did not stop. Rich and expensive can't satisfy his desire. The soldier has his own ambition: to transform forever and start from scratch.

This time, he turned his attention to the financial world, where he knew nothing.

After sitting on the bench in a financial company for a year, everyone else was carrying high bills, but he accomplished nothing.

Later, with the rise of the Internet, the Internet investment market brought many benefits to Xu Dan. At that time, he knew little about Internet investment analysis, and he became a hot topic.

Those years were the fastest time for him to fly, all the way to the United States on the other side of the ocean.

"You have to work very hard to look effortless" is what Xu Dan said when Lagou.com completed the C round of financing on March 23, 20 16.

As a full-time service platform for Internet workers, Lagou.com has been established for 8 years.

Nowadays, the society has become internet-based, and it was a sentence from my senior at that time that made Xu Dan have today's achievements.

Back to that inexplicable night, Xu Dan finally gave the answer: simple, believe!

Recently, I met Xu Dan in an interview in Liang Zi. His face is still childish, unlike the imaginary businessman's face, calm and forward-looking.

Xu Dan often posts some daily sharing in Weibo, which makes us feel that this person is closer to life than aloof.

No matter his experience or his success, we can truly feel this person, and feel the failure, hardship, unwillingness and desire as a person. As long as you work hard in one direction and keep your feet on the ground, you will eventually get results.

It also shows us how a rural baby breaks through her own circle step by step.

If the sky is to become a great task for the Sri Lankan people, they must first suffer their minds, their bones and muscles, their bodies and their bodies.