-However, this kind of thinking is a typical univariate thinking, which completely ignores that the world is a complex system and only changes one variable in "all fields", as if all other conditions were unchanged if Ma Yun made a different choice.
In fact, the difference between business people and ordinary people is not how smart they are in a certain technical field, but their "ability to make the right choice." Choosing to enter the Internet industry is the first step for Ma Yun to achieve today's achievements. Without this step, there would be no Alibaba today.
And we can imagine why, as a talented person with excellent English teaching ability, he didn't immediately connect the Internet with his career after he came into contact with the Internet industry in Seattle, but set up an online mall.
Looking back today, it is not difficult to understand that Internet technology is gradually maturing and ready to go. As long as we move fast enough and lay a good foundation for the first step, we can detonate an information revolution. On the other hand, if the internet is directly combined with English education before it is dug up, people's habit of surfing the internet is not developed at all, let alone the habit of paying, and it is impossible to have enough trust and action in the face of virtual online education environment. This is not difficult to understand as long as you think about how many years after the internet was dug up.
There has never been a shortage of talents with foresight in history. However, most of the ideas that are too advanced are often buried not because of mistakes, but because the science, technology and culture of the society were completely backward at that time. Therefore, it has to be said that Ma Yun is a business leader with strong "ability to make choices". It is a very wise decision for him to skip the development of the Internet and do online education, because he is in the English education industry.
If he had really stayed in the education industry, or taken another route to do traditional education, he might have surpassed Crazy English or New Oriental, but he would not have reached the scale of Ali. Maybe he will try online education, but it is still unknown whether he can survive the period when people have no habit of paying for knowledge at all in such an internet environment.