Text | Cai Tushuo Editor | Cai Tushuo He is the vice president of JD.com with a net worth of over 100 million, the president of the "Internet Finance and Taxation" Alliance, the "first person in electronic invoicing in China", and a guest professor invited by top universities.

According to all standards of success studies, he is a person who has the right to speak in today's society.

In 43 BC, as a winner in life, he stood in front of the dazzling spotlight and was admired by everyone.

But at the age of 43, everything changed drastically. The winner in life became a terminally ill patient. From the body shaking involuntarily to the doctor issuing a diagnosis, the business king had already become a thing of the past, and all that was left was a patient waiting for him to wither.

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The countdown to his life began this year.

After the glory, in addition to despair and desolation, there is also a deep unwillingness in the heart.

After several twists and turns, he turned his unwillingness into motivation and decided to find a chance for himself - to develop new drugs to treat ALS.

In this way, he picked up the familiar Internet as a weapon, used all the resources at his disposal, broke down R&D barriers, found top experts, and established a fund pool worth hundreds of millions.

Find a way out for yourself and hundreds of thousands of patients.

He is our hero today, Cai Lei, a warrior fighting ALS.

Cai Lei was born in 1978 in a small county in Shangqiu, Henan. His father was a veteran and had been extremely strict with him since he was a child.

Under such strict discipline, Cai Lei's academic performance was very good, and he ranked first in every exam. Therefore, some classmates called him "alien" because only aliens can be so smart.

But what they don't know is that excellent academic performance is the only thing Cai Lei can offer.

In Cai Lei’s childhood memories, his family was always very poor. When he went to junior high school, he still wore patched clothes. The toys he played with when he was a child were not wanted by the neighbor’s children. Apart from studying, nothing in life seemed to make him happy.

matter.

After entering high school, he spent two years learning all the knowledge in high school. He took the college entrance examination in his second year of high school and was successfully admitted to the Central University of Finance and Economics.

At that time, Cai Lei only hoped that he could get rid of the poverty that was suffocating him as soon as possible.

After experiencing the hardships of a poor family, after graduating from college, Cai Lei devoted himself to society without hesitation. In order not to suffer from the hardship of money, he would endure any hardship.

First, he worked in a government agency, but his meager income was disliked by his girlfriend. For the sake of love, Cai Lei gave up his iron job and joined a foreign company. While he had a high salary, he also lost all his time.

He is like a tireless "workaholic" who only cares about work. Because of this, his career is getting smoother and smoother. He first became the tax manager of Samsung Group's China headquarters in 2003, and then moved to other companies.

The company holds positions such as tax manager and group chief tax accountant.

Regarding people saying that he is a "workaholic", he also posted an explanation on Weibo: In 2011, sensing that the Internet would become the trend of the times, Cai Lei made a decision that no one could understand and left Vanke.

Go to JD.com for development.

At that time, Vanke's annual revenue could reach 120 billion, while JD.com was just a small company that had just developed.

If we look at it now, Cai Lei's decision is undoubtedly far-sighted, but at that time, there were really few people with such courage.

With the rise of the e-commerce era, JD.com has also taken advantage of Dongfeng to become a leader in domestic e-commerce platforms.

Cai Lei also relied on his many years of business experience to successfully increase JD.com’s revenue dozens of times.