Lakeside University was founded by Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba, Liu Chuanzhi, founder of Lenovo, Feng Lun, chairman of Vantone Real Estate, Guo Guangchang, chairman of Fosun, Shi Yuzhu, chairman of Giant Network, Shen Guojun, founder of Yintai, Qian Yingyi, president of Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, Cai Hongbin, president of Guanghua School of Management of Peking University, Shao Xiaofeng, vice president of Ali, etc. The first principal was Ma Yun.
President Ma Yun proposed that "Lakeside University should be run for 300 years". This is not a school in the traditional sense. The mission of Lakeside University is to discover and cultivate entrepreneurs with entrepreneurial spirit, and its enrollment conditions are extremely harsh. The enrollment target of Lakeside University is enterprise decision makers, who need to start a business for more than 3 years, with an annual operating income of more than 30 million, a company with more than 30 employees, and enterprises need to pay taxes for more than 3 years. Satisfying the above four conditions can only show that students' ability and financial resources meet the conditions.
However, the enrollment conditions examine students' ability, financial resources and connections. So they need three referees, at least 1 is the referee appointed by Lakeside University, including directors, sponsors and students of Lakeside University. Faced with such harsh enrollment conditions, its admission rate is less than 3%. It has become a school that is more difficult to enter than Harvard and Cambridge, the world's top universities.
Ma Yun once said, "I hope to form a culture by the lake so that every enterprise can live for a long time." The students enrolled by Lakeside University are all elites from all walks of life. When they get together, a huge business circle is virtually formed, and the development of capital begins to heat up and support each other.
Perhaps Ma Yun's original intention of establishing Lakeside University is not as selfless as he said, but also for his better development prospects. Provide a platform for people who don't know each other to become alumni, and make future business cooperation smoother.