A teenager who grew up with a golden key.
From 65438 to 0994, Ding Wei was born in a wealthy family in Taizhou, Jiangsu. From an early age, Ding Wei was nicknamed "the rich second generation". Parents are busy making money and doing business, and have little time to accompany and educate him. They can only use money to make up for their love for their children.
When Ding Wei was a child, he took part in all kinds of extra-long classes and received hundreds of pocket money every month. His parents taught him to give him money as long as he behaved well.
Founder of Machimachi Bicycle
20 16 was the craze of bicycle sharing, when mobike and ofo were all over the country. With the support of his father, Ding Wei found a college classmate and spent more than 20 million yuan to set up the third bicycle sharing company in China-Machimachi Bicycle.
Because he used to like sports cars, Ding Wei made a "luxury" modification on his bicycle. He replaced the wheel hub of Machimachi bicycle with fluorescent paint similar to Porsche, and was equipped with magnesium alloy wheel hub, disc brake and chain protection technology. This greatly increases the production cost of bicycles. The cost of each bicycle in the town is between 1.600 yuan and 1.700 yuan. At that time, the cost of ofo bicycles was only 200 yuan.
Bicycles in Machimachi were very popular at first, increasing from more than 5,000 at first to more than 10,000 later. At that time, there were no other bicycle sharing brands in Jiangsu.
Moreover, the sharing economy is at its climax, and a large number of investors flock to Machi to buy bicycles. At that time, Ding Wei often appeared in local media interviews and government meetings.
Machimachi bicycles once became the "first local brand shared by bicycles" in the media at that time. Seven or eight investors came to cooperate in succession, but all of them were declined by Ding Wei, and the investment amount was "only a few million".
However, who would have thought that just three or four months later, Ding Wei and Machimachi were caught in a storm of public opinion overnight?
Family changes, bad luck.
One afternoon in April, 20 17, Ding Wei checked the causes of bicycle failures one by one as usual. Suddenly, several important people from their hometown came over and asked him if he knew Ding.
Ding Wei looked up at each other doubtfully and replied, "That's my father. What can I do for you? " Before Ding Wei could react, the other party gave Ding Wei a hard slap in the face.
Ding Wei was puzzled. He has never been beaten like this. I don't know why the other party did this, so I called my father. Father connected the phone and said, "Nothing." He can solve this small matter.
Later, Ding Wei called her mother again. When the mother connected the phone, there was a cry from her mother in the microphone, and Ding knew that something had happened at home.
It turned out that a p2p company in my hometown closed down, and the founder turned himself in to the Public Security Bureau. This incident became the talk of local people after dinner. People are afraid of being cheated and don't believe in p2p, which leads to the low tide of the whole P2P industry. Ding Wei's father's company can't escape its fluctuation, and customers all go to his father's company to ask for a refund.
But then the company had no money. According to the normal operation rhythm, most of the money was invested. There is no way. Ding Wei's father had to rob Peter to pay Paul. Because he couldn't pay, customers ran home and threatened to pull his father's collar to get back at him.
Father was desperate and borrowed usury. Finally, I threw away my family property and my life's hard work. 2065438+June 2007, Ding Wei was very sad to see his parents go to prison one after another.
In life, you will encounter both satisfactory and unsatisfactory things. But in the early summer of 20 17, everything went wrong, and grief and bad news followed.
For Ding Wei, who grew up in a honeypot, this is not only a family change, but also a gap in life from heaven to hell. It is easy to accept a person from poor to rich, but it is often a difficult process to accept from rich to poor.
After his parents went to prison, fear and panic filled the 23-year-old boy's heart. He was afraid that his father would misappropriate the deposit to ride a bike in machi. So he couldn't sleep. During those two months, Ding Wei drank every day.
If the stomach can't stand it, go to gastric lavage. In the end, even alcohol didn't work. He went to the hospital to buy sleeping pills, swallowed 20 tablets at a time, but spit them all out.
He once thought about suicide. But thinking of his parents and elderly grandmother in prison, he gave up. 2065438+was investigated by the police in August 2007.
When he said goodbye to his girlfriend, he saw blood on her shorts, and a little blood ran down his thigh. The first child in his life died so young.
As a father, how sad it is to witness the child leave, but there is nothing you can do. This is beyond the imagination of most of us.
After coming out of Taizhou detention center, Ding Wei asked his sister where his girlfriend had gone. His sister told him that his girlfriend's parents threatened to die and that her girlfriend had married someone else.
At that moment, the 23-year-old boy silently wiped the tears from the corner of his eyes and whispered, I understand her.
Maybe we all thought that the fate of this 23-year-old boy was bad enough. But not long after, his favorite little aunt had an accident on her way to visit his mother and said goodbye to him forever.
The Jedi counterattack of the "second generation"
Facing the bankruptcy of the family business, the elderly grandmother and parents owe tens of millions of debts. Ding Wei grew from a little boy to a man. He said: "I don't know what it means to start a business, but now I have to support this family. The driving force for entrepreneurship is that there is no turning back and no retreat. "
In order to make money, he came to Beijing alone, earned living expenses through webcasting and paid his parents' expensive legal fees. He has been a super speaker and has also been on The Voice of China.
Before the age of 23, Ding Wei ate a big meal, drove a luxury car and lived in a villa. After the age of 23, Ding Wei ate instant noodles, took a bus and lived in a rented house. Such a big gap in life didn't make Ding Wei collapse. On the contrary, he is more calm than before.
Now that he is 27 years old, he still uses entrepreneurship as a weapon for the Jedi to fight back.