Chapter 1445 Ma Yun appears

When no one in the world knew Sir Yang, the richest man in Hong Kong, no one in the world knew a college English teacher named Ma Yun.

In 1988, 24-year-old Ma Yun graduated from Hangcheng Normal College and was assigned to teach at Hangcheng Electronic Industry College.

Ma Yun is famous for her activeness in the school. In order to prevent Ma Yun from having other ideas, Huang Shumeng, the vice president of Hangcheng Normal University at the time, made a "five-year agreement" with Ma Yun. She could not resign within 5 years of arriving at that school. come out.

While teaching at Hangcheng Institute of Electronic Technology, Ma Yun was a lecturer in English and international trade.

At the same time, he launched an "English Corner" by the West Lake and slowly gained some fame in the translation industry.

At that time, the national economy was developing rapidly, and the number of private enterprises doing foreign trade business in Hangzhou gradually increased, and the demand for translation services was correspondingly increasing.

Therefore, many bosses ask him to be an English translator. But at that time, he could only work part-time because his "five-year agreement" with the old principal had not yet expired.

In 1992, Ma Yun, who was still teaching at the university, founded Haibo Translation Agency with her colleagues.

This is the first professional translation agency in Hangzhou. Haibo is a homophony of the English word "hope", which means "hope".

At that time, the translation agency was just a small shop, with a total of five employees.

Ma Yun and her colleagues raised 3,000 yuan together and rented a house with a monthly rent of 1,500 yuan. The registered capital of the translation agency is 3,000 yuan.

The beginning of starting the business was not smooth, with the first month’s turnover being less than RMB 600.

The situation of not being able to make ends meet made the employees of the translation agency shaken, but Ma Yun firmly believed that the translation agency could continue to operate.

In the meantime he must find new sources of income. Later, she discovered that she could make money by selling flowers and gifts, so she took the train to Yiwu with a sack on her back to buy goods wholesale.

After that, he divided the office into two parts, using one half to sell flowers and gifts, and the other half to serve as a translation agency. Moreover, Ma Yun often carries a large sack full of small handicrafts and sells them on the streets of Hangzhou. Ma Yun even worked as a salesperson for medicines and medical equipment for more than a year. Ma Yun uses the income from these small businesses to maintain the operation of the translation agency.

A new question arises. Since you can earn three to four thousand yuan a month from selling gifts, but a translation agency can only earn five to six hundred yuan, why should you continue to be a translation agency?

Ma Yun's colleagues suggested that they only open a gift shop and establish a gift company in the future, but Ma Yun refused. He stated his opinion: What was the purpose of establishing the translation agency in the first place? Was it to meet market demand and solve the problems of teachers, or to make money?

Since it is for the former, you must persevere and get through it, and the light will come.

In 1995, after three years of losses, Haibo Translation Agency began to make a profit.

At this time, the five-year contract had expired, and Ma Yun submitted her resignation to the school.

After resigning, Ma Yun ran a translation agency full-time for a period of time. He found that the translation agency was gradually on the right track after achieving profitability, so Ma Yun let other colleagues take care of it and no longer interfered with the specific matters of the translation agency.

He began to look for new entrepreneurial opportunities.

In 1995, Hangzhou was planning to build a highway to Fuyang, Anhui Province. An investment company in country M also participated in this project, but within one year of the project, the company had not paid the investment money in accordance with the contract.

Hangzhou hired Ma Yun to go to Country M to contact the company.

At that time, Ma Yun was called "the best English-speaking person in Hangzhou".

With the commission from Hangzhou, Ma Yun took on the task of translation and coordination in Country M.

But after arriving in country M, Ma Yun discovered that it was a scam company. Not only did she have no intention of cooperating, she even hoped that Ma Yun could join them to defraud country Z of money.

When Ma Yun expressed her unwillingness, they put Ma Yun under house arrest. In desperation, Ma Yun could only pretend to compromise and leave on the grounds that she needed to investigate other projects.

Ma Yun, who was about to buy a ticket to return to China at the airport, suddenly regretted it. After thinking about it again and again, Ma Yun felt that since she was here, she couldn't give up easily. Ma Yun remembered that a colleague in China mentioned that his son-in-law co-founded an Internet company in Seattle. He went to Seattle to find the VBN company where the colleague's son-in-law Sam worked, and saw the world of the Internet with his own eyes. .

Ma Yun discovered that people can search for a lot of information through the Internet.

He decided to cooperate with VBN.

On the night she returned to China, Ma Yun invited 24 close friends to talk about the Internet.

But only one of the 24 people thought it was worth trying.

Everyone's disapproval did not shake Ma Yun's idea of ​​​​doing the Internet.

A week later, he and his wife Zhang Ying agreed to start an Internet company.

The 100,000 yuan needed to start the business was borrowed from various sources.

On May 9, 1995, Country Z’s first commercial website, “Country Z Yellow Pages”, was born.

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Hangcheng Haibo Service Company.

Although Ma Yun and his wife and their only employee He Yibin opened this company at this time, they found that compared with the previous translation company, the business was even worse because there was no business at all.

Ma Yun was thinking that she couldn't go on like that.

"Sir, I heard that two training institutions and companies have recently been opened in Hangzhou." Mrs. Zhang Ying came over and said.

Two training institution companies?

In fact, Ma Yun had long noticed that New Oriental Education and Training Institution, the earliest investment and establishment by Imperial Group in the country, was now the largest education and training institution in the country.

This made Ma Yun very greedy.

After all, he also majored in English. However, at most he only opened an English translation company, but he never thought of opening an English training institution.

It’s not that I don’t want to, it’s that I don’t have the money.

After New Oriental Education and Training Institutions entered Hangzhou, they basically monopolized the market of training institutions here.

Many of Ma Yun's former classmates went to New Oriental training institutions to become English teachers.

"what company?"

"It's called Xueersi Education and Training Company. I heard that the boss is Yu Minhong."

Xueersi Education and Training Company?

As for this Yu Minhong?

This was the first time Ma Yun had heard of it.

"Compared with New Oriental Education and Training Institutions, I heard that the tuition fees of Xueersi Education and Training Institutions are cheaper, but the model is similar to that of New Oriental Training Institutions. Moreover, I heard that this Yu Minhong came from Peking University and worked at New Oriental for many years. , now start your own business.”

The wife Zhang Ying on the side felt that she had nothing to do, so she talked about this matter with Ma Yun.

If it had not been a translation company but an English training institution, it would have become a large-scale education and training institution in Hangzhou now.

"Sir, how about we open an English training institution like this? I heard it's really profitable." Zhang Ying said deliberately.

Ma Yun was a little moved after hearing this.

However, when he thought about the development of the Internet he had seen in country M, he felt that the Internet was the more promising path.

Although English training institutions seem to be very profitable now, more and more companies will definitely come in and become more competitive.

For Ma Yun, she had actually missed the best opportunity to enter an education and training institution.