People care about what they lack, and they don't care about what they don't lack.
Yu Minhong is not short of money, so he sighed about life and wanted to live the life of a homeless man in the next life; Ma Yun is not bad for money, he handed over Alipay, no longer the actual controller, and he doesn't have to live the life of a homeless man.
It's not a realm, it's a situation.
What is Jack Ma's situation? There is such a saying that it is the times that create Jack Ma, not Jack Ma who creates the times. But that doesn't stop him from becoming a label of his time.
Alipay is Jack Ma's success and the starting point of Jack Ma's failure.
On the Shanghai beach, Ma Yun said: If the bank does not change, then we will change the bank. As a result, it was Ant Financial, then Alipay, and then Alibaba.
Ma Yun entered the financial sector and made a payment system by himself, not to mention the disorderly expansion of private capital, which is not prohibited by law, since it is legal, there is no conspiracy; In the final analysis, it is the promotion of the market, everything comes from the experience of the ** network, users want to shop online, if there is no Alipay, to operate through the banking system, all kinds of inconvenience will precipitate a lot of potential customers.
The status of the actual controller itself is not too important to Jack Ma.
When Jack Ma started his business, the bank didn't care who you were, it was Son's investment that held up Jack Ma's career, and we now criticize Alibaba as a comprador, which really can't blame Jack Ma, because there is no problem of selectivity at all; At that time, no one was optimistic about Ma Yun, let alone the bank, and he was not even an abandoned baby, that is, an "ant" desperately struggling to climb ashore in the business sea. How many critics are aware of the hardships of private entrepreneurship in China?
Masayoshi Son is also an investor in Alipay, and Alipay, which almost dominates the payment methods of the Chinese people, how can the Japanese be involved? Of course, you can't have the equity of Yahoo in the United States, according to China's management consciousness, the Japanese can't do it, the Americans can't do it, and Ma Yun can't do it, because it's private capital. All this has nothing to do with monopoly, it is determined by Chinese ideology. As a result, Ma Yun cleaned up the equity of Masayoshi Son and Yahoo, and gave up the status of the actual controller, which can be regarded as answering a crucial question in the private economy: What is the margin of the private sector?
Marginality means that it must be within the framework of the public economy.
If the promulgation of the "Opinions" is a redefinition of the market position of the private economy, then, the end of Alipay is a specific and micro interpretation of the "Opinions", of course, the private economy can develop and grow, is the new force of the next centennial plan, but there is a basic premise, can not go beyond the state-owned, break the market sense of the dominance and monopoly of national capital.
* It is said that China's market economy is a birdcage economy, which is actually a big hand of the Buddha, and the private sector can grow, but it cannot jump out of the hand of the Buddha. Alipay is so powerful and convenient for thousands of households, so giving up the actual controller of Alipay should be an inevitable choice and the best choice for Ma Yun.
Jack Ma voluntarily relinquished actual control of Ant Group, and his voting rights dropped to 6208 , it is no longer possible to talk about the actual controller, which in itself is no longer important.
The important thing is the remaining symbolism, Ma Yun's retirement is the end of an era, it symbolizes the future of China's economy, and it must be the world of state-owned enterprises.