1999, in a community called Lakeside Garden, on the third floor of Building 16, eighteen people gathered in a shabby house for a meeting. Ma Yun stood in the middle and talked for two hours, thus "fooling" them to start a business together. At the meeting, there was a classic quotation. Ma Yun took out his own money and said: "Start-up funds must be idle money, and it is not allowed to borrow from family and friends, because there is a great possibility of failure."

Then he went on to say, "Now, each of you keeps some money for dinner and takes out the rest." It was the spare money pieced together by these eighteen people that became the initial principal of Ma Yun's founding of Alibaba. This is the origin of Ma Yun's eighteen arhats, which are also called eighteen arhats.

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There has always been a misunderstanding in the outside world that this 18 people are generally not well educated and lucky, which is a blockbuster.

From the perspective of academic qualifications, almost all are college students; Look at the place of origin, from all over the country; Speaking of luck, from China Yellow Pages to Alibaba, many people leave their jobs early for various reasons, and those who persist are people with extremely firm beliefs.

They also have one thing in common: they don't stick to the rules, dare to try, dare to take risks and dare to innovate. The most important thing is to dare to return to zero again and again. In Xiaoyao's words, Ali people are basically people who jump out of the wall to find themselves.

This is the employee of China Yellow Pages, the eighteen arhats of Alibaba.

Phoenix. On the eve of com- Ali's listing, where was the original 18 arhats today?