Preface
Ma Huateng is now a well-known Internet entrepreneur in China. The Tencent company he created has a profound influence on the Chinese people.
Once, when Ma Huateng talked about his family, he said:
"We are all ordinary families, at most the house is bigger."
Ma Huateng
In 2009, Ma Huateng invested 480 million yuan to buy a wealthy villa on the hillside in Hong Kong, covering an area of more than 1,000 square meters.
As for what he said "we are all ordinary families", it is exactly the same as "I am not interested in money" of Jack Ma and , and it is more like "Versailles".
Ma Huateng is not what he calls an "ordinary family", but his family is actually quite rich!
Ma Huateng's father and sister are veritable state cadres, and Ma Huateng's mother is the first chairman of Tencent !
It can be said that Ma Huateng was able to successfully create Tencent, and his family really contributed.
Father and sister are both state cadres
Ma Huateng's father's name is "Ma Chenshu", his ancestral home is Chaoshan, Guangdong, and he is a member of the Chinese Communist Party.
Ma Chenshu once served as the deputy director of the Hainan Eight Port Authority of the Ministry of Communications of the People's Republic of China, the manager and general manager of the Planning and Finance Department of Shenzhen Shipping Corporation, the deputy commander of the Shenzhen Yantian Port Construction Command and the Shenzhen Yantian Port. Deputy General Manager of the Group Co., Ltd.
In 1997, the year before Ma Huateng founded Tencent, Ma Chenshu was selected as a director of a listed company in Yantian Port.
Ma Chenshu
It can be said that the reason why Ma Huateng was able to successfully create Tencent and continue to grow is due to his father Ma Chenshu.
Shenzhen in October 1998, the weather did not become cold because of the arrival of autumn.
Ma Huateng, who just resigned from his job, sat quietly in a simple-style cafe, savoring the coffee in his cup. He looked out the window and saw the bustling crowd on the street.
This year, he is 27 years old, and his career in university and the workplace has honed him into a capable young professional.
As an entrepreneur, he still has the advantage of age, but for a teenager who was full of ideals, he is no longer youthful.
After a while, his classmate Zhang Zhidong came to cafe as scheduled, and both of them were full of inexplicable confusion and excitement about the future.
The distant dream of youth and the cruel social reality have not left too many vicissitudes on their faces. On the contrary, they are full of energy and passion because of the matter that they will discuss next:
They can finally set up , a company of their own, .
The first thing to discuss is what name should be given to the company. For the two of them with technical backgrounds, this is not a small problem. There are countless names, but in the end, not even a single one is on the table.
The final result of the discussion between the two is that Ma Huateng finds a solution, and Ma Huateng's solution is to go home and ask his father Ma Chenshu.
Ma Chenshu has been a senior executive in a state-owned enterprise for many years. He has a wealth of experience, so it is not a problem to choose a name. He not only agreed to name Ma Huateng's company, but also chose four in one go. "Tencent" is one of them.
Tencent
However, this name was not favored by Ma Huateng at that time. He thought that the name was not enough to highlight the personality and no creativity. But when registering the company name, he found that the other three names had already been registered by others.
So, on November 11, 1998, a company that ultimately changed the way countless Chinese people communicate—“Shenzhen Tencent Computer System Co., Ltd.” was established.
Ma Chenshu once revealed to reporters that at that time he had as many as four names for Ma Huateng's company.
But he still hopes that the name Ma Huateng chooses will have the word "Teng" in it. In addition to the "Teng" in Ma Huateng's name, it can also mean "tens of thousands of horses galloping", so that the company can have auspicious clouds in the future development process. at the top.
In Ma Huateng's opinion, it is best to have the word "Xun" in the company's name. First, it is his respect for his old club "Runxun", and secondly, it follows the mainstream name of Internet communication companies at that time.
may be due to God's will, and the company name was finally selected as "Tencent", which means that both Ma Chenshu and Ma Huateng are still satisfied with the name.
Therefore, the word "Tencent" of Tencent is from the hands of Ma Huateng's father, Ma Chenshu.
Ma Huateng's father also spared no effort to help his company's establishment. He was busy running and running, and played a great role in the company's initial operation and management.
Ma Chenshu's many years of business management and business experience have later become a powerful guarantee for Ma Huateng's new company to set sail. What
is most talked about is that when Ma Huateng's Tencent company was just established and was a small company, Ma Chenshu drove a Mercedes-Benz to manage financial for him every day.
At that time, the company's registered capital was 500,000 yuan, and the price of a Mercedes-Benz car was more than 200,000 yuan. The car of a company's chief financial officer was at the same level as the company's market value, which was rare.
When Ma Huateng talked about his father's help to him at the beginning of his business, he was very serious. He said:
My father has been engaged in accounting for many years and has very rich experience. At the beginning of Tencent's establishment, he was responsible for the specific financial matters. Responsible.
Later, because the company was chaotic and noisy, my father moved the office back home, so that Tencent's financial affairs were all carried out at my home during that time.
Ma Chenshu
My father is a very sincere person. He has never been involved in financial matters. Later, the company established a special financial institution. My father always urged me to be sincere in financial matters and not to do risky things. .
I have always kept my father's advice in my heart and have always maintained a cautious attitude.
My father often said, 'Accidents are often at the best time, because this is the time when you are most interested', and this is his main influence on me.
It can be seen that Ma Chenshu not only contributed a lot at the beginning of Tencent's establishment, but also had a profound impact on Ma Huateng's entire life.
Ma Huateng's deep and introverted, careful and careful character, to a large extent, comes from Ma Chenshu's words and deeds.
And Ma Huateng's sister, like Ma Huateng's father, also worked in a state-owned enterprise and held important positions, and was also a proper state cadre.
The name of Ma Huateng's sister, there is currently no public information to report, and it is difficult for us to know.
But what can be known is that Ma Huateng's sister studied very well, and after graduating, she went to work in the "telephone bureau" at that time.
"Telephone Office" is a unit that many people may not have heard of, because this unit no longer exists.
At that time, the telephone bureau was a proper state-owned enterprise. It was very popular at the time to transfer all telephone calls in the country and manage all telephone-related businesses in the country. It was very difficult for ordinary people to enter this unit.
Ma Huateng's sister, after working for a few years, took up a leadership position in the telephone bureau and held a relatively important position.
Ma Huateng once recalled:
"I first started to contact the Internet at the end of 1995, and at that time I could only dial to Hong Kong through the telephone line for access.
I also got inspiration from QQ during this period, and during this period, My family, especially my sister, helped me a lot. At that time,
cost 4,000 yuan to install a phone, and my monthly salary was only 1,000 yuan. Fortunately, my sister was working in the telephone office at the time. Coupled with the fact that I had to install four phones in one fell swoop, I ended up applying for a half-price discount.”
The phones at that time, apart from being expensive, were not available in many quantities, so it was difficult to buy them.
Ma Huateng managed to get a phone with a favorable price through his sister's related resources, which also laid an important foundation for his later development of QQ.
And Tencent is also relying on QQ, a powerful social communication software, from point to point, and gradually grows, until now it has become China's Internet giant.
Therefore, from this perspective, Ma Huateng's sister is also a big contributor to Ma Huateng and Tencent.
Ma Huateng's father and sister are both proper executives of state-owned enterprises and veritable "state cadres".
They made great contributions in the process of Ma Huateng's creation of Tencent, which is one of the important reasons why Ma Huateng was able to successfully create Tencent and make it continue to grow.
Mother is the first chairman of Tencent
Many people think that Tencent was founded by Ma Huateng, so Ma Huateng should be the first chairman of Tencent.
However, this is not the case. The first chairman of Tencent was actually Ma Huateng's mother, who was transferred to Ma Huateng after his mother became the chairman of the board.
Ma Huateng's mother, "Huang Huiqing", is a very wise woman. She had a huge influence in Ma Huateng's growth and later in the process of founding Tencent.
Huang Huiqing and Ma Chenshu
In October 1971, Ma Huateng was born in Chaoyang, Shantou City, Guangdong Province. When Ma Huateng was born, his father Ma Chenshu was holding a public office in Danzhou, Hainan. Therefore, shortly after Ma Huateng was born, he moved to live in Danzhou, Hainan with his father.
Danzhou City is located in the northwest of Hainan Island in my country, on the verge of Beibu Gulf. It is the largest and most populous city in Hainan Province. It is also the economic, transportation, communication and cultural center of western Hainan. .
Ma Huateng spent his childhood here. The beautiful natural scenery and the modern atmosphere in the city had a profound impact on Ma Huateng in his childhood.
Like many children, Ma Huateng had his own dreams in his childhood. His dreams were lofty or noble, but they had nothing to do with software engineers.
Maybe at that time, he didn't even know what software was, and one of the things he often did was count the stars in the sky.The mottled and bright starry sky of
can always make people full of infinite reverie. For an ignorant teenager, it seems that there is nothing more pleasant than the stars in the sky.
Because of this starry sky, Ma Huateng has developed a quiet and reserved character. He is not as powerful and unique as Ma Yun, nor is he as foreign and extraordinary as and Li Yanhong .
It is also because of this starry sky that Ma Huateng has his original ideal in life. He wants to become an astronomer , so observing celestial phenomena has become his greatest hobby. In
middle school, Ma Huateng, who already knew a lot about astronomical phenomena, needed to own a professional astronomical telescope , but the price of this telescope was high, so Ma Huateng had to turn to his parents for help.
Ma Huateng
just started, Ma Huateng's parents did not agree. Because of the high price of astronomical telescopes, it was a huge expense for his parents.
In the days that followed, Ma Huateng wrote in his diary: "The actions of my parents are likely to kill an astronomer." , I feel that the wishes of the child should still be respected.
So Emily Huang spent a lot of effort and finally persuaded her husband Ma Chenshu to buy Ma Huateng the astronomical telescope of his dreams.
Since then, astronomy has also become Ma Huateng's lifelong hobby. No matter how busy he is, he will take time to observe the stars.
Before Ma Huateng founded Tencent, he actually worked for a company called "Runxun". At that time, "Runxun" mainly made pagers.
Ma Huateng later felt that the pager industry was not good enough, so he suggested that the company transform in time and do Internet social communication, but this suggestion was rejected by the company's top management.
Therefore, Ma Huateng decided to explore this industry on his own, carrying out his own entrepreneurial activities while working.
As mentioned above, during this period, in addition to Ma Huateng's sister, relying on her own resources in the telephone bureau, to get Ma Huateng's phone at a discounted price; Ma Huateng's mother Huang Emily also contributed to Ma Huateng's entrepreneurial activities. less power.
At that time, Ma Huateng was working at "Runxun", and at the same time he had to take care of his own entrepreneurial projects, so he often lacked skills.
And her mother, Emily Huang, just retired and had nothing to do at home, so Ma Huateng handed over the system he developed to his mother for maintenance.
Huang Huiqing was also entrusted by Ma Huateng, maintaining his system very well, and Ma Huateng later developed QQ and laid an important foundation.
At the beginning of Ma Huateng's company, there was no lack of his mother, Emily Huang.
Tencent
Because of the national law at the time, the legal representative of a registered company must have a certificate of retirement. As mentioned earlier, Ma Huateng's mother had retired, so Emily Huang became the only suitable person in the family.
Emily Huang's nominal shares accounted for the bulk, which made her the first chairman of Tencent.
It was not until 1999 that Tencent obtained the first overseas venture capital investment that Emily Huang transferred all the shares in her name to her son Ma Huateng.
Ma Huateng joked in his conversation with reporters:
"At that time, I wanted to set up my own company. My father supported it, but my mother opposed it. But later she heard that she was going to be the chairman of the board, so she didn't object.
After the company was established, she became the chairman, she was the first chairman of Tencent, and I was the second. It's just that she has almost never been to the company, how easy it is to be the chairman."
Therefore, Ma Huateng's mother, Emily Huang, is the first chairman of Tencent, and Ma Huateng is only the second. To believe this, it can only show that he is too simple.
During the whole process of Ma Huateng's establishment of Tencent, his father, mother, sister and other family members provided Ma Huateng with great help and made important contributions. Contribution.
Otherwise, it's really like what Ma Huateng said "ordinary family", he can't even eat enough to eat, how can he have so much spare time to start a business?
