Hu Fei, English name Chris, male, born in December 1975, originating from Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, a democrat, is currently the chairman of Makeup.com, president and CEO of Makeup.com, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) of Jiangxi Province, and a member of the Youth Federation of Jiangxi Province. Born in a farmer's family, he has a double degree in computer and advertising, and is studying for an EMBA degree.
Graduated from university in 1997 and started his own business in 2000. He has been involved in tourism, advertising and food industry, etc. In 2007, he officially founded Makeup.com, and used to rely on borrowing money to pay his employees' salaries, but in 2011, he ranked 49th on the Jiangxi Rich List with a value of 700 million dollars.
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Hu Fei's entrepreneurial journey:
Family poverty has made him grow up with a strong dream of making money
Hu Fei was born in a rural village in Jiujiang County, Jiangxi Province. farmers, the days were hard. "We ate meat three times a year when we were kids, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Spring Festival," Hu Fei also told us a story about eating meat when he was a kid.
On one occasion the family invited a tailor to come to the house to make clothes, and the family bought a little meat for the occasion. From the kitchen out of a bowl of fried meat with preserved vegetables, usually hard to see meat Hu Fei craving, take everyone's attention with chopsticks to secretly clip a piece, I did not expect to be found by his father, was severely beaten.
"At that time, I wanted to make money, I wanted to change this life." It can be said that Hu Fei had the dream of making money when he was a child.
Hu Fei told reporters, his family has four siblings, he is the oldest, his sister just half a year of school was called home to do farm work, his brothers only read junior high school, he is the only college student at home. But his own tuition fees are almost all earned, in order to earn tuition fees, he even to the construction site to move bricks, a day to earn a few dollars, but ultimately he still insisted on down, self-test Nanchang University.
Hu Fei admitted that he wanted to change his fate and did not want to stay in the countryside for the rest of his life, and his dream of getting out of the mountains was also a factor that drove him to success.
After entering college, Hu Fei carried a debt of nearly 20,000 yuan because he had no money to pay tuition and fees. In the four years of college, Hu Fei did not ask for a penny from his family, all the expenses are their own part-time job to earn.
In 1997, Hu Fei graduated from university, advertising graduate Hu Fei found a business unit, although the work is usually very free, but Hu Fei is not willing to the status quo, less than a year of work he made the decision to resign.
At first, he was doing artwork in an advertising company, with a monthly salary of 290 yuan, in addition to the cost of housing, the basic life is difficult to maintain. So he quit his job and went south to work in Shenzhen, where, because of his outstanding work performance, it only took him half a year to pay off the debt he owed from school.
But Hu Fei is not willing to live a working day, in order to young dreams, at the end of 1997, Hu Fei resigned and returned to Nanchang, with their savings and friends opened a gift store, due to the development of space is limited to open the store, a year later, he will be the store disked out, they opened a celebration company.
While it is said to be a company, but the company's employees are just a few people, Hu Fei and the staff have to go out every day to run the business.
Hu Fei's celebration company is mainly to help some corporate activities to do packaging, in fact, it is also the venue to tie the color bars, balloons and other activities, all things Hu Fei are personally. Hu Fei saw in the magazine on the streets of Shenzhen people selling a special balloon, is in the big balloon bread with a variety of special things, heart-shaped small balloons, roses, small dolls, very popular.
This also showed him a business opportunity. "At that time Nanchang did not have, I bought goods from Shenzhen, to sell on the streets of Nanchang, the most time, I sold 10,000 yuan in one day on the National Day." Speaking of the situation when selling balloons, Hu Fei is still a little proud, "see couples we went up to sell, that time I can say that I worked out a lot." ?
Only one year, Hu Fei accumulated the first bucket of money 1 million in life.
After getting these funds, Hu Fei began to look for a new way of entrepreneurship, he listened to his friends say that the wine business is good to do, the money almost invested in this, their own contact with the manufacturers, the design of the wine box, but not for long, this business is due to the follow-up of the lack of funds, less than a year bit of time the company collapsed, and in 2005 and even back to the early days of his business in a difficult situation.
"My home in Jiujiang is still full of wine produced at that time, my father has always said to throw away, but I do not agree." Every time he goes home, Hu Fei goes to the warehouse and looks at the wines, and he can remember his failure at that time and the lessons he learned from that failure.
Huffy said that even if he were to go back to square one again, he would be able to get through it because what he had gone through had made him strong enough.