Inspirational figure: Gao Yan, the speedy life of a wind-chasing boy
A few years ago, he was just an ordinary farmer's son, a working boy with only a junior college education. He spent half a year to get into Tsinghua University, a year to get venture capital, and within 10 months quickly made the video site Mysee into "China's top 100 Internet industry".
His high-speed entrepreneurship is dazzling, and his life story is exciting. ...... Wage earners spend half a year to get into Tsinghua University In 1981, Gao was born in Yiyang, Hunan Province, in an ordinary farming family. When he was very young, he thought he would be a great man in the future. To do great things, you need to have a big heart and great ambition, but looking around, there is no role model to follow. Finally, his eyes fell on an old hometown in Hunan. This legendary great man was enough to carry Gao Yan's reverence for heroes and become his spiritual mentor, that is - ***. To this from the countryside out of the influence of China's predecessors to this day, Gao Yan has a sense of affinity, "his family is very close to our home, and are the children of farmers, we can also build a new China is understood as entrepreneurship."
After school, Gao Yan's performance was among the best, but at the moment of the senior high school, because of the family's financial difficulties, his parents had to let him read the secondary school.
In the face of the first setback in life, Gao Yan felt the cruelty of reality, but he did not give up his ideal. In the three years of study in the secondary school, Gao Yan diligently still. After graduation, he went south to Guangdong to work for a living, only a secondary school diploma, he was in the factory with a meager salary. In order to get better development opportunities, Gao Yan began to learn ISO9000 certification expertise. Soon, he jumped to a foreign company as an engineer, the monthly salary can get 5000 yuan.
Working in a foreign enterprise will naturally come into contact with many college students, and they interact with Gao Yan found that he is not bad, especially to see the hometown of those who went to high school partners one after another to enter the university, Gao Yan feel that the ideal began to drift away. "At that time, it was very depressing because what I was doing was not what I wanted to do, and my ideals were in conflict with reality. I'm a person with very big ideals, and I'm definitely going to do this stuff." After some consideration, Gao Yan decided to resign and go home to prepare for the national exam.
See home ready to plug in to participate in the national examination of the high combustion, parents are very puzzled, because 5000 yuan monthly salary for this remote rural families is undoubtedly a lot of income, and the cost of going to college at home is difficult to bear. Gao Yan insisted on his decision and was determined to enroll in Tsinghua or Peking University. In the eyes of onlookers, this was an impossible task; he had never been to high school and no one had faith in him. "Not a single person believed in me, except myself." He said. At this point, only half a year is left for the national exam.
Gao Yan was assigned to the worst-performing class in the school, and in the school's first monthly exam, he was the second-to-last in the class. This did not affect him at all, he said: "I think I did not go to high school for a day, I can test the second last, that there are people worse than me, I think I can still." Behind the self-confidence, Gao Yan has put in a great deal of effort.
A month later, the second monthly examination he was already the first in the class, and this performance has been maintained until the end of the semester. The national exams came as scheduled, and Gao Yan got what he wanted. He got a college acceptance letter, and it was Tsinghua University. In a place where there hadn't been any Tsinghua or Peking University students for more than a decade, the news caused a sensation. Later, someone solved the tuition fee for him, and Gao Yan's dream of going to college came true. However, he clearly knows that this is only one of his many dreams, and he is just starting out now. A dollar for a job as a reporter On August 28, 1998, Gao Yan officially became a Tsinghua student. He was a strong learner, and in the four years he studied in the Department of Foreign Languages and the Department of Chinese, and finally graduated from the School of Journalism and Communication.
During his time at the school, Gao began to consciously develop his social skills by organizing many lectures and inviting many entrepreneurs, *** officials, scholars, and some foreign entrepreneurs and celebrities to come to the school to give speeches. Before inviting these celebrities, Gao Yan would make full preparations, read very many books and do very much homework, such as knowing their personal information. (Sunshine sun) His social communication skills were thus well practiced, and the people he met invariably became the capital for his later ventures, including Jiang Xipei, chairman of the Jiangsu Far Eastern Group, who later supported him. Many people think that Gao Yan has a deep heart, he has been laying a network of contacts, but he said, "I have never thought about what I want to get in the future, I know that it is useful to know so many people, but I don't know what the specific use. That's how I go about it, and I'm very sincere with them."
The richness of college life has changed Gao Yan a lot. He said, "I realized that college life has changed me so much that it has given me back my confidence." Now at every opportunity, he tells those who come after him, you must go to college.
On July 1, 2003, Gao Yan graduated from college. He accidentally missed the recruitment of the Southern Newspaper Group, so with his internship work in mind, he spent a dollar on the bus, straight to the Economic Observer, looking for the editor-in-chief to get a job. Confidence and strength allowed him to get the job and become a reporter. When asked how much he spent on his job search, Gao Yan replied with a smile, "One dollar. With his unique understanding of news and hard work, he won the Best New Reporter Award of the newspaper that year. After working at the newspaper for eight months, his restless heart began to stir again, "I don't want to see the end of my life at a glance." Gao Yan began to look for new goals. Two years to get ten million investment 2004, China's IT industry, e-commerce is surging. Yahoo and Sina cooperated to set up easy auction network, Ma Yun's Taobao on eBay in hot pursuit. After a period of time as an economic reporter, Gao Yan already had an understanding of the IT industry, and also wanted to develop in the e-commerce, so he made a business plan. Afterwards, Gao found Jiang Xipei, the president of Far Eastern Group, whom he had known for a long time. Gao Yan was fully immersed in the *** of entrepreneurship, and this confidence and determination also infected Mr. Jiang. He believed that there were opportunities in this industry, and more importantly, he was optimistic about this young man. Mutual trust led to a verbal agreement: Mr. Jiang invested 10 million yuan for 65% of the shares, and Gao Yan invested 35% of the shares with his intellectual capital. This result makes Gao Yan was overjoyed, he then found Tsinghua automation department of several doctors, set up a team.
In June 2004, Gao went to Jiangsu to participate in the board of directors of the Far Eastern Group. At the meeting, he presented his plan, but drew opposition from most of the directors and supervisors, with only Jiang Xipei and a vice president who also graduated from Tsinghua supporting him. In the end, Gao Yan's business plan failed to pass. Right after the meeting, Mr. Jiang said something he would never forget, "All of us think that you are a good person with no problems, very good, and will be successful in the future, but this project is too risky." Gao Yan knew that it might not work out and was a bit frustrated, but he still held a ray of hope and said his request again. Gao Yan's sincerity and persistence impressed Mr. Jiang, who finally agreed to personally contribute 1 million yuan. Mr. Jiang patted him on the shoulder and said again just now, "This project has a very big risk, but you people have no risk."
In July 2004, 23-year-old Gao Yan set up an e-commerce company. The board's judgment was not wrong, his e-commerce program did not succeed, the company's situation is struggling. It was at this point that Gao met Deng Di, a fellow student at Tsinghua University. Deng Di had also founded a company that was also failing. One of them had the resources and the other had the technology, so the two of them decided to merge their companies, and in February 2005, Mysee was founded. Through the live broadcast of Lien Chan's and James Soong's speeches on his 2005 trip to mainland China and the launch of Shenzhou 6 into the sky, Mysee surfaced and entered the public eye. Later, there were millions of dollars of venture capital investment, Mr. Jiang also added 1 million yuan, the situation finally opened up. 2005 December, only 10 months after the establishment of GowellVision, won the Internet Society of China issued the "second place in the Internet industry innovation", "China's top 100 Internet industry" title.
In the first half of 2006, the company was awarded the "Most Valuable Investment Enterprise" by the Internet Society of China and many domestic and foreign venture capital organizations.
In October 2006, when his career was booming, Gao quit the board of directors of GowellVision. His departure, rumors abound, some people exclaimed "Gao Yan was kicked out of the board", some people said "'80s' entrepreneurs suffered capital cuts", and some people speculated that Gao Yan's Gao Yan explained, "The reason why I left Mysee is that I am no longer interested in this industry." In addition to the explanation, he also left a decisive sentence: "Next time I start a business, I must be the boss."
Sure enough, at the beginning of the new year in 2007, the news came that Gao Yan founded Oceanpower Media, with a financing of 10 million yuan. He said, "For me, who graduated from the Department of Journalism, I am more familiar with this industry." For this new round of entrepreneurship, Gao Yan yet again said he will only do about two or three years, but not leave this company, but will not do in front of the stage. So what will he be doing in a few years? He said lightly, "I can do what I like to do. For example, to create a fund, such as to go abroad to study." He emphasized that he just said "for example", but one thing he is very sure, "I think people's horizons must be broad, and my horizons now are broader than my peers."
Someone online commented on Gao Yan: "This dazzling young man has taken his pursuit of speed to the next order. Now Gao Yan, who seems to have a bigger stage and more opportunities than before, seems to be more confident than before. I do not know whether this is considered to be the persistence of repeated defeats, or the embodiment of the 'post-80s' rate of self, but I see that Gao Yan is enjoying the giddiness of this speed, enjoying this entrepreneurial *** ."
And on his life of speed, Gao Yan said, "I know that the story is far from over. I am convinced that an exciting life story will continue to unfold."