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Today there are a lot of books about us. I do not read these books. Because I think these books are not about us. People love to see successful stories. But most of the success stories. They succeed because of the mistakes.
By encouraging all the young people, entrepreneurs to learn from the mistakes do not study successful stories. Successful store in the Harvard business school, normally you know, there are a lot of things behind, you do not know. But if you learn, especially the fearless cares studies it is going to help you.
What I want to say is not about you learn from mistakes does not mean you will avoid mistakes, you will learn the attitude toward these mistakes and never give up fighting again.
Off course it is painful when you are rejected when you are refused. I went all around looking for money, nobody give us money. I all around looking for partnerships, nobody believes small businesses and ecommerce in china will work. I am very painful that day and when I saw one movies faster gum, I have that movie, especially said mom said life like a box of chocolate, you never know what you are going to get.
So stay full to your dream and continue to fight. So this is what we did as enterprium we never complain, when people complain the opportunity comes, so if you solve the complaints that is your opportunity. So I love to when I talk to the entrepreneurs I feel excited when I was sitting there listen to the entrepreneurs talk I feel inspired I feel, we are the same people.
The difference between big company and small company is not about revenue. It is about the dream. The small companies have the dreams. Most of the big companies when they get certain size, they only have KPI.
So if you fight only for next quarter, how can you survivor in such a turbulence times, you have to believe the future, you have to continue to the future, you have to stay focused as I said to myself early days, if there are nine rabbits on the ground, if you want to catch the rabbit, do not change the rabbit, change yourself, stick to one rabbit.
If you have the dream, stick to the dream that is what I believe, so this is what I want to say is that alibaba stated 18 years ago. We never change our dream, we believe e-commerce are believe internet, we believe by helping our people, helping small business and helping empower women, we will have the future.
The difference between last century and this century. The difference between IT and DT. IT is empower yourself. DT empower others, when you help others you are helping yourselves. This is what we believe.
18 years ago, 18 people in my apartment, when we had this dream when we started, everybody say, you guys are crazy how can you do e-commerce, no infrastructure. No credit system, no logistics, no this and no that how could you do internet. We say it there is not gastric that butane. If there is not credit system that is a butane. That is why, they need entrepreneurs.
I remember where we launched the TAOAO, what is so funny, we last talked about we thought, we are going to have a big business in about one month but for the first five days nobody come here even shipping.
In my apartment we have to buy ourselves he sell, we buy and the first, you know the first amount where somebody came to sell, no matter whatever he sell we buy them that would tell the service of world his thing really can be able to sell. So more people come sell, so we bought, a whole house at things garbage there are no use. But at least we build up the trust, we learn the experience of selling. We learn experience of the servicing.
