Many entrepreneurs, once their business grows bigger and become top rich people, will start to "whitewash" themselves and constantly claim to the outside world that they start from scratch. The purpose of doing this is to make people feel that it is not easy for these entrepreneurs. After all, it is very powerful to start from scratch to make a company so large, and it is also easy to arouse the favor of netizens and become entrepreneurial idols.
Therefore, many entrepreneurs will claim that they start from scratch after they become well-developed, and some people also say that their success can be copied by others. They try to use their own words to tell more people that starting a business is easy, and ordinary people can also start from scratch and become rich.
In fact, in the past, the probability of success in starting a business from scratch was indeed very high, because in the past, there were opportunities everywhere, as long as you are brave, making money is not a dream. But now it’s different. The success rate of starting from scratch is not that high. Moreover, with the popularity of the Internet, more and more people have discovered that many wealthy people who claim to be starting from scratch are actually lying. Look at who the father behind them is, and you will understand why they succeed.
Jack Ma Starting from scratch?
Jack Ma has been saying on many occasions that before starting a business, he was a teacher with a low education. He was rejected for a job and suffered a lot of ups and downs. He kept raising funds, failed continuously, and was ridiculed. After a lot of hardships, he founded the current Alibaba . Is this really the case? In fact, although Jack Ma’s family background is not particularly deep, he is not an ordinary family.
Jack Ma's father is a well-known folk art artist. He had already entered Zhejiang Federation of Literary and Art Circles to work in 1981. Therefore, although Jack Ma's father cannot help Jack Ma a lot in business, we can also see that Jack Ma's family is not an ordinary family. At least he still has the funds for starting a business, and now he has a lot of money, which is a full 500,000 yuan. That is 500,000 yuan decades ago, which is a huge sum of money.
Ma Huateng Is an ordinary family?
Ma Huateng has always said that he is an ordinary family and it is not easy to start a business. It is indeed in the early days, Tencent was still very difficult. Ma Huateng once wanted to sell Tencent, but failed. If you think that Ma Huateng is an ordinary family, then you are wrong.
Ma Huateng's family is not very top-notch, but it is not bad. His father once served as the vice president of of Shenzhen Yantian Port Group and has been dominating in the business world for many years, so Ma Huateng's father can give Ma Huateng a lot of help in business. After all, he has connections, rich business experience, and good family background, so Ma Huateng can have enough confidence to start a business. Moreover, Tencent was also Ma Huateng's father helped register. The initial Tencent was still under the charge of Ma Huateng's parents.
Ren Zhengfei is not considered to be a waste of money
For Ren Zhengfei, many people think he started from scratch, because it was really not easy for Huawei to start a business in the early stages of . The earliest office location was very shabby. It was two small dilapidated houses located on the bank of Shenzhen Bay . Later, it moved to the industrial area and was also connected to many warehouses. The office environment is not high-end at all.
Huawei's development is also extremely difficult. It was faced with survival problems in the early days. Ren Zhengfei also planned to sell Huawei, but it was not successful. However, Ren Zhengfei is not really starting from scratch. Although the startup capital is only 20,000 yuan, Ren Zhengfei's wife is extraordinary. Her first wife is the mother of Meng Wanzhou. It is said that her father is a high-ranking official in a local system and has a very prominent family background, which also gave Ren Zhengfei great help.
Which rich man is truly starting from scratch?
In fact, there are still many rich people in my country who have started from scratch, and one of them is very famous, that is Liu Qiangdong .Liu Qiangdong was born in the rural area of Suqian and was a real lower-class family. He was able to go to college or get help from his fellow villagers. So after Liu Qiangdong became rich, he went back to his hometown to pay money to his fellow villagers.
Many people say that the character Jing of Jingdong is Liu Qiangdong's first girlfriend and a person with a good family background. But in fact, Liu Qiangdong broke up with her shortly after he founded Jingdong, and the character Jing was adopted just to commemorate her. In the early days, JD.com was a small digital sales counter in Zhongguancun. It was really inconspicuous to sell optoelectronic products in the early days. Moreover, due to the emergence of Taobao, the business suffered a heavy blow.
When his career was hit, his girlfriend broke up with Liu Qiangdong. It can be said that she was frustrated in the business world and frustrated in the love world. Later, Liu Qiangdong decided to develop JD in the Internet direction and caught up with the tide of e-commerce. JD came back to life. After years of development, JD finally became the number one private enterprise this year. It is really not easy.
It is not easy to start from scratch from an ordinary person to a nationally renowned rich man. In fact, many rich man are helped by nobles or experts, or their fathers are not ordinary people at all, so they are not really starting from scratch. Therefore, we should not over-worship those rich man.
