She is a veteran of Alibaba and Jack Ma's most trusted personShe may seem weak, but she has a strong determination and ruthless means. She once exposed and eliminated seven ** elements within Alibaba, even including the executives that Ma Yun spent a lot of money to poach. She was able to do all this because Jack Ma gave her a "tiger stick" at a meeting: "She has the right to investigate anyone on Alibaba, including me!"."Her name is Jiang Fang, how did she become the woman behind Jack Ma?Why did Jack Ma give her so much power?
Jiang Fang is known as Jack Ma's "cronies", and she is Alibaba's weapon in the fight against corruption. When people see Jiang Fang, it is difficult to associate her with ruthlessness and words. Because she looks ordinary, has no high education, and has no professional skills, she seems very ordinary compared to other executives at Alibaba, but it is such a person that she has taken an unusual path.
Jiang Fang was born in a rural family, her parents did not have a high level of education, but they understood the importance of reading, and they taught Jiang Fang from an early age: "You can not be admitted to a good school because of your lack of ability, but you must have a heart of hard work and enterprising, only with knowledge and culture, you can go further." This sentence deeply affected Jiang Fang, and she vowed to work in a better direction.
In 1993, Jiang Fang was admitted to Hangzhou Institute of Electronic Industry. She was originally dissatisfied with this school and thought it was the result of failing the college entrance examination, but she didn't expect that this was a place that could change her fate. At that time, Ma Yun was not a business giant, but an English teacher at this school, and Jiang Fang was one of his students. Jiang Fang didn't have a good impression of this ordinary-looking English teacher when she first saw it, but when Ma Yun taught the students, he showed a different style.
Jiang Fang said: "When Mr. Ma is in class, there is always a special charm, and the students like to listen to his class”
It's a pity that Ma Yun's class didn't last long, and he chose to resign and start a business. Jiang Fang thought that the teacher-student relationship with Ma Yun was over, but when she was about to graduate, she gave Ma Yun another **, and the relationship between the two was closer again. "Mr. Ma, how is your business?I'm about to graduate, and I would like to ask if you have any good career adviceMa Yun thought for a while: "I'm still in the early stages of entrepreneurship, if you don't mind that the company is new, you can try it." "Really, Mr. Ma?That's great, I'm worried that I won't have anywhere to go after graduation. ”
In this way, Jiang Fang came to work in Jack Ma's company, and Jack Ma worked with several partners to run an Internet company. There are only five people in the company, Ma Yun, two partners, Ma Yun's wife, and Jiang Fang. Although Jack Ma's company is small, everyone is very capable, except for Jiang Fang. As a newcomer, Jiang Fang usually does some errands, photocopying and other miscellaneous things, earning 500 yuan a month. In 1997, Ma Yun sold the company, and many employees chose to leave, but Jiang Fang was willing to follow him to continue the business.
Later, Ma Yun founded Alibaba, and Jiang Fang became an old employee of Alibaba. At that time, some people questioned Jiang Fang, why did she follow Ma Yun in the first place, and what other purpose was there?In this regard, Jiang Fang replied bluntly: "If I have any purpose, it is to strive for the future, Mr. Ma is a potential investment object, at that time my relatives and friends did not even hear of the industry I did, I don't know if there is a future, Mr. Ma turned this uncertainty into reality, he is my role model!."”
It was Jiang Fang who drew the circle.
In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba, which required a registration fee of 500,000 yuan. Ma Yun couldn't come up with so much money for a while, so he said to the employees: "Let's all contribute a little money, let's start a business together and get rich together." As a loyal subordinate of Jack Ma, Jiang Fang took the lead in taking out her savings as registration fees, and also encouraged many employees to participate together. At that time, there were 18 people involved in the registration, and these 18 people later became the majority shareholders of Alibaba, known as the "Ali Eighteen Arhats". Some people may ask how they were so confident that Alibaba would succeed.
In fact, they are not too sure, investment is like this, if you want to get rich, you must have the courage and perseverance to take risks, otherwise it is not suitable to enter the mall. Later, Alibaba received a $25 million investment, which gave Alibaba employees a new hope, and the outside air became sweet.
But the joy didn't last long, and a financial crisis in 2000 left many companies in trouble, and Alibaba was no exception. The number of orders decreased, the investor withdrew capital, Jiang Fang was in charge of finance at the time, she saw the money in the company's account, and she was also very nervous, and the money could only support the company for three at most.