On the evening of September 10, 2009, the Huanglong Sports Center was a jubilant, more than 20,000 employees, customers and guests of Alibaba, *** with Alibaba to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the birthday.
Ma Yun 3 times on stage.
The first time he appeared on stage in his Zhongshan suit, along with the 18 founders.
The second time, several Ali Group executives took the stage as a hippie band. They wore hippie headgear and dark sunglasses and used electric guitars and other instruments. Jack Ma, the head of Ali, fronted the band and sang a solo rendition of the theme song from "The Lion King," "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?
The third time on stage, Jack Ma wearing a white shirt, delivered a passionate speech:
Thank you all, in fact, I have not recovered from the performance just now, never thought I could perform in the 10,000-strong stadium, before the performance, nervous at least ten days, but the performance of the two minutes refused to come down, all the Alibaba executives have just finished the performance of the down, we are particularly regrettable, we have only so little time, so a thrill of excitement, we can feel the love tonight. Only so little time, so a excited we talked for a long time in the back, need me to follow up to share with you Alibaba ten years of experience.
I have been preparing for this evening for about ten years, and ten years ago I envisioned how I would speak to our employees, how I would speak to our customers, how I would speak to my friends, and what I would say. As we get closer and closer to the tenth anniversary, I am getting more and more excited in my heart and I want to speak more and more, but in the past few days, I actually can't sleep at night because I don't know what I am going to say. Just now before coming to see so many Alibaba people, so many Alibaba friends and family, I actually do not need to say anything, ten years all Alibaba people's behavior has told us, thank you!
Ten years ago, in my home, I have 17 other colleagues, we painted a picture, we think China's Internet will be how the development of China's e-commerce will be how the development of China's e-commerce, we spoke two hours, and from then on on this road. Ten years down the road, there is no reason why we will survive, there are countless reasons, countless bumps in the road, countless situations that will make Alibaba stumble, or even disappear into the Internet world. We ourselves are asking what has kept us alive and getting stronger. I believe that our people are not the most capable, I have seen many, many people better than us, Alibaba today's young people are more capable than we were ten years ago, we are not the most diligent, there are many more diligent than us, we are certainly not the smartest, because there are many people smarter than us. So what has kept us alive? What has kept us going this far? Today I want to share it here with all of us Alibaba people, with all of our Alibaba friends and family. I think we are very lucky, we are lucky to live in this era, we are lucky to live in this Internet era, we are lucky to live in China. That's why I say, from day one until now, Alibaba has been full of gratitude, and there are a lot of people to thank.
I think I'd like to start by thanking my 17 coworkers, 17 entrepreneurs, without whom I would have trusted me, and who always stood firmly behind me no matter what happened. I also thank all my Alibaba colleagues here, it's your strong spirit that has gotten us this far, thank you all.
I thank all the Alibaba customers who have helped us realize the Alibaba dream. I remember nine years ago someone thought that Alibaba's business model, the services provided by Alibaba is like lifting a 10,000-ton oil tanker to the Himalayas. I want to thank the families of Alibaba here, without your support, Alibaba people would not be able to work day and night every night until eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock or even two o'clock, three o'clock, for a little bit of program, for a problem, for a customer, day and night to fight for it, thank you. Of course, I also thank our investors, without their trust we will not come to today, I want to thank a lot of my friends, these friends include a lot of government officials, today we have a lot of Alibaba's friends here, many of them are friends of government officials, they are not just government officials, they are more of our friends, their trust in e-commerce, Alibaba's trust, China's small and medium-sized enterprises trust, I sincerely thank you for your trust. I thank them from the bottom of my heart for their trust in e-commerce, their trust in Alibaba, and their trust in China's SMEs.
I believe there are a lot of people to thank, these days I think a lot of people to thank, a lot of people to be grateful, including cab drivers in Hangzhou, Hangzhou, West Lake rowing boatmen, without their support, without their help constantly publicize Alibaba, without Hangzhou people to support us, we will not have today. So thanksgiving is something that Alibaba has always remembered in its heart for ten years. I remember nine years ago, in Alibaba's 100 employees said at the meeting, I hope that Alibaba has become the pride of Hangzhou, I hope that the people of Hangzhou are willing to send their children, their boyfriends, girlfriends, husbands and wives to our company, so that our company is getting bigger and bigger, not only to become the pride of Hangzhou, the pride of Zhejiang, and even to become the pride of China and the pride of the world. Today we have just begun, the road behind is still very long.
I also believe that, for whatever reason, we have survived today, but we still have 92 years to go, this 92 years, what makes us go on, the first ten years of Alibaba only two major products, the first product is our employees, the second product is our customers. I want to share a few things here, the next ten years Alibaba must adhere to things. The first Alibaba is mission-driven, values-driven company, more than eight years Alibaba quarterly assessment of values, every quarter, every month is to rely on their own sense of mission, each person is to rely on their own sense of mission and adhere to. Some people say that Alibaba was founded as an idealistic company, I still feel that today, Alibaba is full of idealism and full of realism, Alibaba is not possible to come to the present without ideals. The next ten years we will always be an idealistic company, of course, will be down-to-earth, if not full of realism to do anything little by little, I believe that we will not live until now, we will always adhere to the customer first, employees second, shareholders third. Let all the investors on Wall Street scold us, we insist on customers first, employees second, shareholders third.
We insist on focusing, we focus on e-commerce, we focus on e-commerce in the first ten years, after ten years or focus on e-commerce, we focus on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the first ten years, the next ten years, we are still focusing on SMEs, because only focus on SMEs, focus on e-commerce, in order to make us long, because SMEs need us, because China's e-commerce and global e-commerce need us! We are still focusing on SMEs in the next decade. Alibaba's 10th anniversary today, I have never been so worried to see the passion of everyone, because today is the end of a phase of the first ten years, and the 92 years behind us have just begun. From last night to this morning, we received 18 resignation letters from the founders of Ali, all 18 of us resigned from our positions as founders, because we know that from September 11th, Alibaba will enter a new era, into the era of the partners, 18 of us do not want to carry their own honor to struggle, we will sleep the most tonight because Tonight we do not need to say that because I am the founder, I have to work harder, because today we resigned from the founder, tomorrow morning we will continue to apply for jobs, job hunting Alibaba, we hope that Alibaba once again to accept us, the same as any ordinary employee, our past everything to zero, the next ten years we start from zero.
Honestly, received these 18 founders of the resignation letter, see them speak sincere words, I am very touched, I will be in the company intranet to share the public every letter of resignation. The tenth anniversary of Alibaba and everyone is concerned about the world is undergoing great changes, the development of the Internet, the development of globalization, the financial crisis, the world economy has changed a lot, we have just seen in the three-minute video, tainted milk powder, warming of the atmosphere, all the problems, the world is undergoing dramatic changes. I think the world is calling for a new business civilization, the old business civilization is the era of enterprises focusing on themselves, focusing on profits, creating the most value, hoping to get more profits, focusing on themselves rather than society, what the society needs, what we need in the 21st century is the enterprises in the new business civilization under the new environment, how to the social relationship, the relationship with environment, the relationship with customers, the relationship with the humanities, the relationship with the society, the relationship with the environment, the relationship with customers, the relationship with the humanities, the relationship with the humanities, the relationship with the humanities, the relationship with the customers, the relationship with the humanities. The relationship between humanities, the relationship between customers, rethinking. In the last one or two years, what has been bothering Alibaba's management is how Alibaba will go in the next ten years, and what kind of company we need to become. I think it's not what kind of company we want to become, but what kind of company the world needs. In the 21st century, we need a company with the concept of the 21st century, and we hope that a company that knows more about openness, sharing, and globalization will be able to do so. I believe that the reason why the Internet develops so fast is because the Internet knows how to be open, knows how to share, and knows how to take responsibility, and it has a global perspective. If any company wants to live well in the 21st century, it must learn to open up, share, responsibility and globalization, and Alibaba is hoping to become such a company.
The world does not need another Internet company, the world does not need another company like Alibaba will earn money, the world does not need lasting experience of the company, the world is in need of a more open, more sharing, more responsible, the community needs a social enterprise, from the community, to serve the community, the community is full of responsibility for the future responsibility of the enterprise, the world needs a spirit, a culture, the world needs to be a social enterprise, the world needs a spirit, a culture, a culture, a culture, a culture, a culture, a culture, a culture, a culture, a culture, a culture, a culture. The world needs a spirit, a culture, a belief, a dream. Ali people in the next ten years to adhere to our beliefs, adhere to our culture, adhere to our dreams. Only dreams, ideas, missions, and value systems can make us go far.
We hope that through the efforts of Ali people, we can make the Internet, can focus on small businesses through e-commerce, so that all the world's enterprises operate on an equal and efficient platform, we expect that ten years from now, in the land of China, can no longer see the difference between private enterprises and state-owned enterprises, we only see the integrity of the business, we do not want to see are We don't want to see the difference between foreign-funded enterprises and domestic-funded enterprises, we only want to see enterprises operating in good faith, we don't want to see the difference between big and small enterprises, we only want to see enterprises operating in good faith. We hope to see that the businessman is no longer a symbol of profit-oriented, we hope to see that the enterprise is no longer aiming at the pursuit of profit, but also the pursuit of social benefits, the pursuit of social fairness, the perfection of society and efficiency, we hope to see ourselves as entrepreneurs, as businessmen, in this society, we take on the same responsibilities as politicians, artists, architects, and become one of the main driving forces for the promotion of social development. One of the driving forces.
The previous ten years, through the help of our friends in the whole society, Alibaba has made its own entrepreneurial success, and in the next ten years, Alibaba hopes to help countless enterprises to succeed through its own platform, and help countless entrepreneurs to become Alibaba. From 18 people to today's 17,000 employees, we will always adhere to the second employee, we will always and not only satisfied with creating more millionaires, we are concerned about the happiness of employees, Alibaba people we *** with the efforts in 2010 we design, build Alibaba people employees' happiness index.
We hope that employees are not only materially rich, is spiritually rich, we hope that employees have a sense of accomplishment, recognized by the community, respected by the community, we will always adhere to the serious life, happy work.
To all shareholders, all support Alibaba, trust Alibaba Group shareholders, our own behavior to ensure that we will give shareholders a generous return, but our return is not only money, we hope that all shareholders of Alibaba, and finally feel proud of, you invested in a company that has a huge role in promoting the community, the community to assume a huge responsibility to help employment and We hope that all the shareholders of Alibaba will be proud that you have invested in a company that contributes greatly to society, assumes great responsibility for society, helps employment, and fulfills dreams. Only if you invest in such a company will you feel a sense of fulfillment.
Lastly, like ten years ago, I told today's Hangzhou Party Secretary Wang Guoping at my home that Alibaba would become a 5 billion dollar company ten years from now, and at that time we had a total of 500,000 RMB, which was very difficult. I saw Secretary Wang nodding with excitement, but of course many people on the side felt unreliable. Ten years, has been a lot of people say, Alibaba is telling the story, Alibaba this can not do, that can not do. But ten years, Alibaba one of the company has been listed on the stock market, has more than 10 billion dollars in market capitalization, Alibaba has gone from 18 people to more than 10,000 employees, Alibaba has spread from China to more than two hundred countries and regions around the world. I am today in front of 27,000 Alibaba employees, Alibaba customers, family and friends to depict ten years later, Alibaba if we do a good job of the new business civilization, what are the specific indicators of our future.
The first indicator, we will create 10 million e-commerce platforms for small businesses, and we are going to create 100 million jobs for the world. We want to provide a platform for one billion people around the world to consume, we hope that through the platform of ten million enterprises, through the platform of all of our enterprises, so that all small businesses can compete with any large enterprises through technology, through the Internet, through e-commerce, we hope that our consumers, to enjoy the real cheap and beautiful products, and we hope that in the front of our services, so that any one old lady, do not pay 60 yuan less for electricity to go to the bank door queue, using our services, so that they enjoy the same rights with the chairman of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.
I believe that 10 million small and medium-sized enterprises, 100 million jobs, 1 billion consumers, will certainly attract a lot of criticism, ridicule, irony, it does not matter, Ali people we are used to. I also believe that the world may certainly forget us, because we are not pursuing others to remember us, we are pursuing others to use our services to improve their lives and promote the development of society. Ladies and Gentlemen, 92 years is a very long way to come to Alibaba, not for a job, but for a dream, for a cause. I want to share here constantly inspire myself, but also want to inspire you, I have spoken more than once today still want to say once again, today is very cruel, tomorrow is even more cruel, the day after tomorrow is very beautiful, the vast majority of people die tomorrow night, can not see the sun of the day after tomorrow, Ali people must see the sun of the day after tomorrow.
All Ali people remember, Chairman Mao once said more than two hundred years of self-confidence in life, will be when the water 3,000 miles, the world gave us this stage, the world gave us the opportunity to move all the wisdom, all the courage, all the efforts to help 10 million enterprises to survive, create jobs, for the 1 billion people to really provide a platform for the price of goods. Thank you, everyone.
Question/Answer Session Transcript:
Host: Mr. Ma, please stay, just Mr. Ma gave us a dream of a new business civilization, I think this dream is dependent on all the Aliens to achieve. Today we have a lot of online business friends, and our partners, as well as our Ali family members, I have collected some questions to ask you. First of all, on behalf of the net business friends asked, just now we heard you depict the blueprint is inseparable from the net business, then this decade you have no want to say to the net business friends.
Ma Yun: I believe that the net business will one day become the world's largest merchant group, the net business today is basically 80 after the start of the 90, I believe that they advocate "openness, sharing, responsibility, globalization". Today we put forward the concept of "net business", launched the concept of "net goods", we will launch the "net rules" in 2010, only the network rules and regulations, in order to allow the birth of a new business civilization. The birth of a new business civilization, "network business, network goods, network rules" to form a brand new era on the network. All the friends of the network business, ten years ago you do not know today can do so, ten years later you will certainly be the world can cultivate so many, we work together.
Host: In Alibaba every year on May 10 is Ali reception day, friends and relatives reception day, I believe that every Alibaba staff behind can not be separated from our Ali relatives of this support.
Ma Yun: Thank you all, one thing please rest assured that Alibaba advocates transparency, fairness, we will take care of your relatives, your children, your Mr., your wife. But the company is not taking good care of you, it is they who take good care of this company. We will make him not only materially rich, spiritually rich, we hope that Alibaba out of the people are really happy people, we also hope that all the friends and relatives recommend more excellent young people, our pursuit is not the most outstanding people, we are pursuing the most ordinary people, thank you in particular to Alibaba's support for the understanding of the next ten years, I hope that you will continue to support us, thank you!
The hosts of the show are the best people in the world.
Host: Just a very passionate speech by Mr. Ma, my first time so close to Mr. Ma, I saw Mr. Ma in the background is very excited, this may be the first time I feel so close to your mood, I think there are a lot of young people like me, we need Mr. Ma to give us another love and encouragement, right?
Ma Yun: everyone Ali people, tomorrow we start a new journey, Alibaba said goodbye to the founder of the era, we enter a new era, the era of partners. Alibaba's future mission is to build a new business civilization, Ali people we have insisted on ten years and stupid and naive, we hope that the next ten years and twenty years, there are more people like us, to join to improve this society, to promote this society, to help more people to realize their dreams, to achieve his business income generation, to achieve the growth and development of enterprises. Let's all work hard to help small businesses and help entrepreneurs succeed, we will definitely give and we will definitely get, thank you.
Host: Thank you Mr. Ma, I think we will get it.
The end of the speech, applause and cheers enduring.