331. Boss Cao is simply a monster

Late November 2006.

Boss Cao got busy again.

The reason for being busy is not because of the company's business, but because-

Participate in various programs and be invited to deliver speeches.

The principal of the Qing Dynasty University invited Boss Cao to give a speech back to his alma mater, and the time was set on December 4th.

Then after the speech at the Qing Dynasty University ended, Cao Yang would attend CCTV's 2006 China Economic Person Award Ceremony on December 12.

This selection only selects 10 outstanding Chinese entrepreneurs with the greatest influence in a year. This is the first time Cao Yang has won this honor. In addition, it is CCTV, so you have no reason to refuse.

After CCTV's annual economic figure selection ended, Cao Yang would also accept an exclusive interview with Forbes Magazine on December 20.

Compared to Alima, Boss Cao is already behind.

As early as July 2000, Alima had already appeared on the cover of Forbes Magazine's international edition—

In the cover photo, Alima is wearing a large size plaid shirt and clenching his fists. His smile is like announcing the vitality of Alibaba, a newborn "child" to the world.

Forbes reported on the Chinese company and its founder Alima with "B2B of Little Shrimps".

Forbes said: "Alima's direction is correct. There are only 20 major companies in the United States that need to buy a container hammer, but there are 555 hardware wholesalers. 20,900 retailers only need to buy a box or a box of hammers, and these small businesses (that make hammers) are very grateful to Alibaba."

At that time, Alibaba was just a startup company with B2B as its main business.

However, in just over a year, they have gathered 250,000 members from more than 200 countries and regions, becoming one of the world's largest online market and business community, and are still maintaining rapid growth every day.

That photo gave Alima the first appearance in the world, but no one thought about how this young man would change the world.

Even the most senior readers of Forbes, after reading it, they just flashed through their minds that in the distant East, the land where the world still thought was dull, there was a vibrant enterprise and young people worthy of admiration.

So although Cao Yang was 6 years late, it was already very good to be able to climb Forbes.

You should know that Boss Cao is only 26 years old this year, and I don’t know how younger he is than Alima.

This year, Alima and Cao Yang were nominated as one of the top 10 Chinese economic figures in 2006, so on December 12, Cao Yang was able to meet the penguin's old enemy in his previous life on CCTV.

In the past life, the two horses can be regarded as the two major horses of Chinese private enterprises. Both companies have market value exceeding one trillion yuan, making them one of the largest Internet companies in the world.

The two companies have confronted each other in many fields. After all, they are all Internet companies. Although they use monopoly to cut leeks, the focus of cutting leeks is different.

Penguin is big and complete, and needs to be involved in everything, mainly harvesting games, music, animation, novels, and cultural and entertainment products.

Alibaba is harvesting in the life shopping and related people's livelihood services industries.

However, in this life, Alima's biggest competitor was replaced by Cao Yang.

Affected by the butterfly effect, Alibaba launched its B2C business in advance, not only providing e-commerce services to enterprises, but also providing e-commerce services to the public. Moreover, since 2003, Alibaba has established Alipay to provide convenient and fast online payment functions to ordinary people and enterprises.

However, Alipay has no money-saving and loan-related businesses yet, and the user scale is not large.

On July 7, 2003, Alibaba officially announced an investment of 100 million yuan to start Taobao.

In 2004, Alibaba launched "Taobao Wangwang", combining chat with online shopping

In 2005, Taobao surpassed eBay, and Yahoo became the largest online shopping platform in Asia.

In 2006, it became China's largest comprehensive store, with annual transaction volume reaching 104.4 billion yuan, and the number of registered users has exceeded 30 million.

What a horrible number this is.

But don’t look at the huge transaction volume, Alibaba actually has very little net profit.

Alibaba's revenue to December this year was 3.34 billion yuan, but its net profit was less than 300 million yuan.

It's not as much as a Bomi game.

Bomi's total annual revenue is estimated to be about 40 billion, which can completely outperform the entire Alibaba. However, since Bomi's expenses are also very large, mainly in mobile phones, cloud computing, big data centers, new 3A project research and development, bandwidth, movies, Bomi's new building... The money spent in these places is like flowing, so in the end, Bomi's net profit this year is still a loss.

It looks like a loss of 200 million.

If it weren't for the fact that the foundation accumulated in the past few years was quite rich, Cao Yang really didn't know what to do now.

The annual loss of 200 million yuan is actually quite optimistic, because even so, it will take more than ten years to lose all the money Cao Yang made in the stock market before.

If Bomi hadn't expanded too much, their annual profit margins should have been quite high now.

But Cao Yang is still very confident, after all, next year will be the highlight of making money.

...

Because he was selected as a Chinese economic figure in 2006, Cao Yang has been cooperating with CCTV's shooting team to record videos in the next few days.

The video is mainly used for the broadcast at the China Economic Person Awards Ceremony on December 12th.

The shooting team has more staff than the previous interviews. Including the interview staff, there are directors, assistants, photographers and makeup artists, there are almost 6 or 7 people.

The reporter who was interviewed this time was a reporter from the Economic Channel, named Lu Xiaoxing.

It's not so much an interview, but rather a posing.

Because there is no need to do interviews or interactions throughout the process.

"Mr. Cao, you just need to show your domineering side, and then introduce to the audience across the country some of the things you have done over the years and what your business philosophy is."

"I……"

Cao Yang thought to himself that I was so domineering?

Even my little secretary can usually criticize me for not wanting it.

However, Cao Yang still cooperated and gave a speech.

After the recording was completed, the director directed some posing recording work, and also visited the working environment of the employees in Bomi Building, did some material acquisition work, and then left.

The whole journey will not exceed 3 hours.

Before leaving, the director made an OK gesture to Cao Yang, "Mr. Cao, just wait until the show becomes popular."

"I..." Cao Yang felt very embarrassed.

I am a people's entrepreneur, why do I want to be popular?

But the director didn't think much. He thought Cao Yang's image was really good, especially among the group of entrepreneurs selected this year, he was simply outstanding.

Moreover, with the efforts made by Cao Yang over the years, it is really hard to say that Boss Cao is a [ups-and-coming show] that Boss Cao can have such a large scale today.

But Boss Cao seems extremely young, which is really hard to describe.

However, these are things to be done in the later stage, so people will naturally write the promotional manuscripts.

After seeing off CCTV's shooting team, Zhuang Yurou put her hands on her chest and stood beside Cao Yang, smiling silently.

Cao Yang turned around and happened to catch the little secretary who was laughing.

"What are you doing? I have something on my face?" Cao Yang raised his hand and wiped his cheek.

Damn...

What if the image on your face is recorded because of something ruined?

By then, everyone will see the live broadcast nationwide. Wouldn’t my image as a handsome guy in Yushu be ruined?

Zhuang Yurou smiled and said, "No, boss, your image is good."

She stood in front of the door of Bomi Building, looking at the CCTV car leaving in the distance, and said with a little sigh, "It's really amazing to be the economic figure of the year."

And you will definitely be popular this time, boss.

I read CCTV’s nomination list this year, and none of them are as handsome as you.”

"Oh," Cao Yang laughed in surprise, "You changed your sex today. Are you in financial difficulties and need a salary increase? Why do you have such a sweet mouth?"

"Hmph." Zhuang Yurou frowned and snorted, "I'm just telling a fact, but if the boss wants to give me a raise, I don't mind."

"If you praise me as much as you do today in the future and make your boss feel happy, you will naturally have a salary increase," said Cao Yang.

Um……

Zhuang Yurou is so happy in her life. Cao Yangeng’s selection of the economic figure of the previous year shows that Bomi Company’s influence is already great enough, and Zhuang Yurou is also honored.

It was as if she had gone to that stage herself.

"Boss, you have to work hard! Don't lose your links during the live broadcast and lose our Bomi people."

"Hiss..." Cao Yang hissed coldly, "Sure enough, you still regard money as dirt! Awesome, admire it!"

"boss!"

...

December 4, 2006.

Cao Yang was invited by the president of Qing University Gu Binglin to give a speech to the college students in the school in the lecture hall of the Qing University Construction Museum.

For Cao Yang, it is really a great honor.

The students present crowded the entire lecture hall. Cao Yang, as the main speaker, even asked others to help him squeeze in.

There were three layers inside and three layers outside, and they were surrounded and could not be thrust.
To be continued...