The first big dinner party was attended by people like Zhou Hongyi and Ma Huateng, who had past grudges.
It's worth noting that at that time, Ant Financial's IPO was stalled, and Ma Yun was still known as "Father Ma" on various social media platforms.
To avoid the Dongxing Society, not a single private photo of him was ever leaked.
This time, however, Zheng Li participated and personally took charge.
Everyone attending this conference is a big shot.
The main figures in the internet industry include the founders of BAT (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent), Lei Jun, Ding Lei, Zhang Chaoyang, Dong Zi, Wang Xing, Zhang Yiming, Huang Zheng, and Yang Yuanqing.
People like Yao Jinbo, Zhou Hongyi, Zhou Yuan, and Cheng Wei are not eligible to participate.
(The above are the heads of 58.com, 360, Zhihu and Didi respectively)
They actually wanted to participate, but unfortunately, they weren't qualified enough.
Zhang Chaoyang is respected because of his seniority, and Ding Lei is respected because he has hosted dinner parties for many years and is also senior. People are willing to give them some face.
Yang Yuanqing's success is due to his backing by Lenovo.
Lenovo, or more accurately, the Lenovo Group, has a significant influence in the domestic business community.
The investors are mainly Zhang Lei, Shen Nanpeng, and Guo Yihong.
Guo Yihong was the person in charge who spearheaded IDG's participation in the financing of science and technology biotechnology companies.
When Li Miaomiao participated before, she was actually invited to their Wuzhen dinner party.
However, since the dinner party was attended entirely by men, Li Miaomiao used this as an excuse, along with the fact that she couldn't drink alcohol, to politely decline.
"The youngest person at our dinner party before was Yiming, but now an even younger person has arrived."
Today's Gen Z kids are something else.
"Zheng Li is ahead of his peers by a cliff. Yi Ming is a post-80s generation, but he jumped directly from the post-80s to the post-00s generation."
Times are changing, and I, a person born in the 1970s, feel like I've been left behind by the times.
"You're only from 1974, you're far from being eliminated by the times. I'm ten years older than you, and that's when I'll be eliminated."
"Although I am ten years younger than you, I have also retired."
We are actually of the same generation.
Ma Yun was exactly ten years younger than Dong Zi. Ma Yun retired first, and Dong Zi was practically retired by then.
"I'm a post-80s generation person and I've already retired. Isn't it normal for you post-70s generation people to retire?"
"What you're doing is called retiring but not resting. You've just handed over Pinduoduo to your subordinates to manage while you're off to start businesses in other fields."
This is not retirement.
Huang Zheng, the founder of Pinduoduo, was born in the 1980s.
"Whether or not to retire has nothing to do with age, but with one's own thoughts."
I'm the same age as Ma Yun, and I haven't retired yet.
He even teaches physics to everyone on Sohu Video every day.
I said, Ma Yun, you can also come to my Sohu Video and give a live lecture. You can speak English. Isn't that your specialty?
Zheng Li, this is the first time I've met you. We weren't very familiar with each other before.
If you'd like to teach online classes in the future, feel free to contact me. Sohu Video is eagerly seeking talented individuals.
If you were to teach biology to everyone, I would definitely award you the title of "Master".
Zhang Chaoyang, a physics PhD from MIT, has become addicted to lecturing on quantum mechanics and the origin of the universe.
However, Sohu has indeed never found its own niche.
We missed out on too many eras.
The internet professionals here have not only spanned generations, but also the entire era.
Sohu and NetEase represent products of the early personal computer era, while BAT (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent) represents the mature era of personal computers.
Pinduoduo, Meituan, and Douyin represent the mobile internet era.
As for Lenovo and Xiaomi, both of them are hardware manufacturers.
"Old Zhang, you're still young at heart despite your age. If it were me, I would have gone to rest long ago."
The entrepreneurial process is full of passion, but after success, without continuous strong stimulation, it's easy to fall into emptiness.
According to these internet entrepreneurs, the key to entrepreneurial success is going public.
Previously, Sohu was listed on NASDAQ. It's worth noting that it only took Sohu two years from its founding to its NASDAQ listing.
Later, they went to list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. In recent years, most internet startups have been thinking about listing on the Hong Kong or mainland stock exchanges.
Times have changed.
"This is related to individual personality."
I've always heard that Zheng Li is a workaholic.
Working more than twelve hours a day.
And unlike our work, which is intermittent, with meetings, breaks, meetings, and breaks.
Zheng Li delegated all company affairs, big and small, to Li Miaomiao, and spent all his time in the lab.
"I've also heard that young people these days are incredibly talented."
I didn't work this hard when I was studying at MIT.
Not to mention what happens after a business succeeds.
No wonder Zheng Li is the wealthiest among our group.
With talent and hard work, it's hard not to succeed. Come on, let's have a drink, anything goes.
For a dinner party like this, especially since it was Zheng Li's first time participating, there was absolutely no requirement to drink anything.
There won't be a situation where I do whatever I want to you.
Lei Jun added, "Actually, I've heard of Zheng Li for a long time."
At that time, Zheng Li was still studying at Jiangcheng University. I saw them discussing Zheng Li in the alumni group.
It is said that a freshman from the School of Mathematical Sciences published a biology paper in Nature.
It's worth noting that the biology department at Jiangcheng University hadn't even published anything in Nature back then.
As a result, someone from the School of Mathematical Sciences beat them to it, and they were freshmen.
At the time, I thought it was an April Fool's joke, but after searching online, I found out it was real.
This is something I've seen and forgotten; it just makes me marvel at how capable young people are these days.
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