Ma graduated from the Computer Department of Shenzhen University. When he was at school, he had demonstrated his talent in computer and internet. After graduation, he found a job like many college students, and 1998 founded Tencent. Apart from his own efforts and talents, perhaps his parents helped him the most. Through Ma's parents and Huang Huiqing, let's see the greatness of Ma!
Compared with most contemporary Internet entrepreneurs, Ma has a different family background. Ma's father is a cadre from the south. Ma Chenshu was born in 1940, with technical secondary school education, party member. He is an economist. He used to be an accountant, statistician, planning director and deputy director of eight port authorities in Hainan, manager and general manager of financial planning department of Shenzhen Shipping Corporation, deputy commander of Shenzhen Yantian Port Construction Command, and deputy general manager of Shenzhen Yantian Port Group Co., Ltd. 19.
Ma Chenshu is a native of Chaoshan, a township party in Li Ka-shing, whose Yantian Port is one of Li Ka-shing's favorite commercial forms. In addition, PCCW appeared as a venture capitalist of Tencent for the first time, so many people wondered whether there were many connections between Ma's father and Li Ka-shing, which helped Ma a lot.
However, these are just guesses. Ma Chenshu's most direct help to his son is mainly to open a Mercedes-Benz to do accounts for his son in the early days of Tencent, and the indirect help may be the experience inheritance of corporate governance and capital market operation. Another help from Ma's family is that Ma's mother has served as the legal representative of Tencent for a long time. According to the relevant public documents of Tencent's listing, the legal representative of Tencent founder Shenzhen Tencent Computer System Co., Ltd. is Ma's mother Huang. As for why my mother served as the legal representative of the company for a long time, Ma explained that the legal representative who founded the company was either unemployed or retired, so I had to let my retired mother serve as the legal representative.
Although Ma Jia is rich, his venture capital is more from his own accumulation. It is rumored that Ma's start-up capital comes from stock trading. It is said that he used to fry 65438+ 10,000 yuan into 700,000 yuan. In this regard, Ma himself did not respond positively, but Ma admitted that he had made a small fortune by developing stock monopoly cards, which enabled him to enter the capital market and gain primitive accumulation of capital. As we all know, Ma's father is an executive of a listed company, so there are still people who can consult Ma in the capital market.
One thing is certain, whether it is Ma or Zhang Zhidong, it is difficult to accumulate their earliest venture capital just by being an engineer. At that time, the income level of Zhang Zhidong of Runxun Ma and Liming Network was roughly 1000-2000 yuan per month, and even with the dividend at the end of the year, there was not much accumulation. Chen Yidan, who works in Shenzhen Telecom, Xu and Entry-Exit Quarantine Bureau, has even less income because she is a public institution. According to the company law at that time, to set up a company, there must be at least 500,000 yuan of registered capital. Therefore, the first problem Ma and his business partners face is how to raise the registered capital of 500,000 yuan.
Most of the initial 500,000 yuan was paid by Ma, who made some gains in the secondary capital market. However, Ma did not hold the majority of the shares. He wisely defined his own shares as 47.5%, and the shares of the other four people added up to 52.5%. The advantage of this is that he will not give other entrepreneurial partners a sense of dominance. In extreme cases, the other four founders can persuade him to change his decision together, and any resolution he wants to pass must be agreed by at least two founding shareholders. In this way, Tencent made clear the strategy of collective leadership from the beginning, and Ma himself did not lose control of the whole company.
The first bucket of gold for starting a business
Mr. and Mrs. Ma Chenshu said that when Ma Hua Teng was studying in the computer department of Shenzhen University, his grades were always in the top five, and he gradually realized the fun and love of writing software and learning computer networks? Play? He has become the bane of all kinds of viruses, and at the same time, he often makes some practical jokes about locking the hard disk, which makes the administrator of the school computer room laugh and cry. Tell the reporter that Ma's first bucket of gold comes from the graduation design of the university. 1993 On the eve of graduation, he designed one? Stock analysis system? Soon, a company took a fancy to this software and asked him how much it cost. But at that time, the horse and his family didn't know how much the software was worth, so they asked each other to bid. Later, the other party gave the horse 50 thousand yuan, which made the horse very happy. Ma Chenshu also found a friend to help him take the money home.
Ma Hua Teng, who tasted the sweetness, got out of hand, and then cooperated with his classmates to develop? Purchase system? He is in charge of designing software, and the other is in charge of hardware. With this device, users can view the stock market in real time through TV, and the market is very good. At the highest time, a set sold for more than 2,000 yuan, which made the horse earn tens of thousands of yuan. It was not until his classmates who worked with Ma later went abroad that they stopped manufacturing and selling? Stock receiver? Speaking of which, Ma Chenshu and his wife are very proud. ? Now we have a handbag accessory at home! ? Ma Chenshu added happily.
1994, Ma put 65,438+ten thousand yuan earned from developing software into the stock market, and bought it when its share was only more than that of 6 yuan. With the stock price soaring, Ma's 654.38+ million became 700,000, which made him have millions of funds soon, laying the foundation for independent entrepreneurship.
With four telephone lines? Stationmaster?
Ma Chenshu and his wife told reporters that they didn't have any special hobbies until they graduated from Ma University and worked as software engineers in Runxun Company. Although they don't even have a stereo at home, they have five telephones and eight computers. At that time, the real Internet had not been fully popularized, but my son was addicted to the Internet. When he first went to Huiduo. Com, he let him experience the fun of the Internet. Half a year later, Ma invested 50,000 yuan to set up four telephone lines and eight computers at home, and served as the stationmaster of Huiduo Net Shenzhen Station. Every day after work, he is as busy as a bee. Over time, Shenzhen? Horse station? He is famous in Huiduo.com, but few people know that Master Ma is actually just a young man in his early twenties.
Ma Chenshu said half jokingly that it cost more than 4,000 yuan to install a telephone at that time. Fortunately, his daughter and several relatives were working in a telephone company at that time, and they could apply for installation at half price. Later, he asked his daughter and relatives to apply for four half-price telephones for them to use online. At this moment, Ma Chenshu said, pointing to Huang Huiqing. Actually? Horse station? At that time, Ma asked his mother to help him manage the website while he was on a business trip. Every time he leaves home, he will write a note to his mother, telling her that once a netizen calls to say that the network is blocked, he will follow the steps on the note to troubleshoot and ensure the smooth network. ? With the support of his family, Ma also attended the first and second national BBS webmaster conferences.
? I am the first chairman of Tencent?
Ma Chenshu said that after graduating from Shenzhen University, Ma 1993 joined Runxun Company and started to be a software engineer, focusing on the development of paging software, and has been the head of the development department. Ma, who has a soft spot for the Internet, proposed to use the Internet to do wireless paging service and developed a system. Unfortunately, it didn't get the support of the company, which strengthened Ma's determination to start his own business.