Story 1 behind the success of celebrities: Jay Chou
Jay Chou was born in a family with poor living conditions. Mom and dad divorced when he was 5 years old, and he followed his mother. We know that he has a song "Dad, I'm back" in "fantasy".
Jay showed his unique feeling and talent for music when he was in primary school. He likes the piano very much, and he likes listening to music quietly alone, which also forms the shy big boy character we see him now. However, his academic performance is not very good, because he wants to engage in music, but music is a plaything of the rich in Taiwan Province, which is almost impossible for him, so many people advised him to study hard, get into a university in the future and find a job.
But it is "disappointing" that Jay didn't go to college, so he was introduced to a restaurant as a waiter after graduating from high school. However, he still loves his music. Although he only earns 4 yuan's salary every month, he will spend a lot of money to buy tapes besides subsidizing his family. He often listens to music quietly by himself and tries to create his own music. Jay said that he has only shed tears three times, once when his parents divorced; Once, I was fined half a month's salary by my boss because I was distracted when I was working in a restaurant and knocked over a plate with hot dishes on a waitress.
There is a piano in the dining room, which is Jay Chou's favorite. Once, when he was not busy at work, he sat down at the piano and played a song. The other waiters were very surprised. It happened that the boss saw this. He didn't expect such a humble waiter to have such an elegant hobby. In this way, the boss made Jay Chou a pianist in the restaurant, which was a big "promotion" for Jay, and his salary rose to 1 yuan every month. From then on, he was full of love for his work.
Jay Chou's sister is very supportive of her brother's music creation. Once, the "King of New Musicians" hosted by her in Wu Zongxian signed up Jay Chou. Wu Zongxian was a famous musician in Taiwan Province at that time. He was shocked to see Jay Chou's music score, because a complicated piece of music, Jay Chou, was neatly composed. However, because Jay Chou's music style is very strange, he was booed by many audiences during the live performance, which also gave Jay Chou a big blow. However, Wu Zongxian likes this quiet young man very much. He asked Jay to work as a music production assistant in his "Elfa" music company, but the so-called assistant is just to help run errands. But this is a good start for Jay Chou to realize his dream. Since then, he has strengthened his determination to take the road of music creation, and he has the time to ask others for advice. Finally, Wu Zongxian promoted this diligent young man to music producer. But this is a bigger test for him, and he is willing to bear this test. Every morning, he puts his written songs neatly on Wu Zongxian's desk.
He encountered many difficulties in it. The song he wrote for Andy Lau was thrown aside by Andy Lau without reading it. It is said that this song is the later "Star Clear". And his "nunchakus" tailored for A Mei, a popular actress in Taiwan Province at that time, was also abandoned. When he secretly saw Wu Zongxian tear up his creative manuscript, he silently left tears, which was his third tears. At this time, Wu Zongxian gave him one last chance to write 5 songs in 1 days, and selected 1 of them to give him an album. He knows that the boss gave him the last spy, and this time is the key moment to decide his life and death on the music road. Sure enough, everything comes to him who waits. He finished the task within 1 days and successfully released his first album Jay Week. Since then, he has also become famous. When he was only 19 years old!
Story 2 behind the success of celebrities: Peter Thiel
He is a mathematical genius and a chess player, and likes the works of Solzhenitsyn and Rand. In the global internet community, venture capitalist Peter? Thiel is a name that can't be bypassed. Because people in the industry are always looking forward to hearing what new projects this "prophet" figure is interested in, and also because of his successful entrepreneurial and investment experience and his ability to turn stone into gold.
PayPal goes public, and the first bucket of gold in life
University Avenue, located in the most lively area of Palo Alto, is the outpost port for the release of technology products in Silicon Valley. There is a room called Caf on this street? Cafe in Venetia. Peter? Most of Thiel's industries are set up in Caf? Near Venetia Looking around, the guests in this cafe are all people who use Apple devices and are not very well dressed but full of energy. Their discussion topics are inseparable from their own creative ideas and venture capital. In the summer of 1998, 23-year-old Ukrainian programmer Max? Max Levchin listened to Thiel's speech on currency trading at Stanford University. The next day, they met in Palo Alto, hoping to build an electronic payment system to make e-commerce transactions simple, unified and secure, which is the prototype of PayPal in the future. In 22, Thiel was in this cafe with his friend Allen? Elon Musk met to discuss whether or not to let PayPal go public and reached an agreement. Finally, this electronic payment company, founded in 1998, successfully went public with a market value of about 1.2 billion US dollars, becoming the first large-scale IPO after the "911" incident. Subsequently, PayPal was acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion, and Thiel also got the first bucket of gold in his life? 55 million dollars.
venture capital, turning the stone into gold
Thiel, who is financially free, devoted himself to venture capital. He renamed Thiel Capital Management, which he founded in 1996, Clarium Capital Management, and injected $1 million himself. Since then, Thiel has been patiently looking for promising startups. At that time, social networking, a field that few people liked, was thought to be the next dangerous internet bubble, but Thiel was still full of confidence. In the summer of 24, Hoffman and Silicon Valley urchin Sean? Sean Parker introduced Thiel to Zuckerberg, who was looking for a major investor for Facebook. Thiel provided $5, start-up capital for Facebook, which was valued at less than $5 million at that time. This was the first external investment that Facebook received. This investment won him 7% of Facebook shares and became a member of the company's board of directors. Although Thiel sold nearly half of his shares in the following years, and the remaining shares were further diluted by Facebook's multiple rounds of financing, Thiel still held about 3% of the shares. If calculated by the market value of $1 billion after Facebook's listing, Thiel's stock value is expected to reach $3 billion, and the return on investment is more than 6, times. What about Mark? Zuckerberg created Facebook, a miracle that changed human life style, so Peter? Peter Thiel, born in 1964, is the driving force behind this miracle. The American internet community once again remembered Thiel's name.
a year later, he founded the Founders Fund for $5 million, and after the fund was established, he invested in a series of highly innovative startups, including YouTube, Slide, a photo sharing software company, Yelp, Palantir Technologie, which developed software for searching terrorists and financial fraud, SpaceX, an electric car company, and Kiva, a micro-lending company. These companies turned out to be very successful. It can be said that Thiel is the most successful technology venture capitalist in the world.
how to select promising entrepreneurs? Thiel said that he would ask the most important question to every entrepreneur seeking investment, that is, "Why did the 2th employee join your company?" Thiel believes: "It is easy to explain why some people want to be CEOs or join startups as early employees, because they want to run a company or get rich by joining early startups. It is also easy to know why the 1,th employee is willing to join, because it is obvious that the company is on the road to growth, and joining can earn a stable income. But the 2th employee will have many different meanings. Because most of your company's equity has been allocated when the 19th employee of the company joined, but the company has not succeeded, so your company is not a place worth joining in order to stabilize income. " "I will only vote for a company that answers this question, that is, the 2th employee will join in because the company is doing something brand-new and different."
Contradictory complex, "Born to win"
Thiel was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1967. His father was a chemical engineer, and his father Klaus moved to several large engineering companies many times, always running around with his family, and finally settled in Foster, 2 miles south of San Francisco, USA. Thiel went to primary school in seven different places. Finally, in the fifth grade, he settled down in Foster, San Francisco Bay. Gentel's early growing environment was full of self-confidence, intelligence and loneliness. He is a mathematical genius and a chess master, and his chess set is affixed with the motto of life "Born to win". When he was a teenager, his favorite reading was "The Lord of the Rings", which he always read repeatedly. At the same time, he also likes the works of Solzhenitsyn and Rand. Thiel grew up in a Christian family and believed in Christianity, but in high school, he began to believe in libertarianism and even became an extreme believer in libertarianism. He described his faith as "somewhat heretical" and said, "I believe in Christ. But I don't try to persuade others to keep the same faith as me. " At the same time, Thiel, as _ _, is also an out-and-out homosexual, which is one of the concrete manifestations that Thiel is called a contradiction complex by the outside world. In this regard, he said, "In my mind, identity exists in various subtle forms. I think that homosexuals, blacks and women all have profound and different experiences about this. I also believe that everyone has an exaggerated trend and raised it to the ideological field. " Obviously, Thiel is a typical contradiction complex. He lives or does business in his utopia and enjoys it.
The information age has brought Thiel great wealth, but he is still disappointed. He believes that the internet technology revolution has not created enough jobs, nor has it improved the manufacturing level and social productivity. Innovation in virtual worlds cannot replace technological progress in the real world. Thiel rarely updates his Facebook page. He is also "not used to using things like BlackBerry, iPhone or email." It was not until a year ago that he started texting.
I firmly believe that innovation can save the world
Now, Thiel, who has made a lot of money in social media, has a new goal? To provide funds for those "ideas that can save the world", in his words, at least "raise our civilization to a higher level". Thiel believes that almost all the problems in the world, such as the defects in government institutions and education systems, the lingering financial turmoil, the market bubble, the energy crisis and the war for resources, all stem from the stagnation of scientific and technological innovation, and the only way to save them can only be a drastic scientific breakthrough. At present, Thiel has invested a lot of money in companies that focus on prolonging life, migrating to offshore platforms, commercializing space, friendly artificial intelligence, modifying DNA sequences to accelerate evolution and other crazy ideas. Recently, his Thiel Foundation has invested in another eye-catching project? Fresh meat 3D printing technology startup.
This company, called Modern Meadow, which is engaged in the research of 3D printing technology for fresh meat, is located in Missouri, USA. It is said that it has received a 6-figure investment from the Tell Foundation. According to the company, through special treatment and cultivation of different types of special structural layers, the test-tube meat can become edible, and it can also provide the human body with the required protein. The company said that it was engaged in this research to reduce the environmental impact brought by large-scale farming. At present, the meat produced is 2 cm long, 1 cm wide and half a millimeter thick. "We look forward to attracting a group of early consumers who like cooking and vegetarians for ethical reasons. Then, with the gradual reduction of prices, more religious vegetarians (such as Hindus, Jews and Muslims) are recognized, and finally hope to provide safe and secure pork products for the general public. "
At present, Thiel ranks 365th on Forbes list with a net worth of $1.5 billion. Thiel's contribution to the internet world is not only as a venture capitalist, but also his unique thinking ability. In any case, Thiel's dreams are all about changing the world.
Story 3 behind the success of celebrities: Guo Jingjing
Guo Jingjing spent five years in Baoding Le Kai Primary School. At that time, Guo Jingjing joined the diving team.
At first, Guo Jingjing couldn't stretch straight from her knees to her toes, and her legs were particularly hard. In order to practice ligaments, sit on a tiger stool. After an exercise, Guo Jingjing broke her leg, so she should go home to recuperate. But Li Fang, the coach, was afraid of going back, because she felt that Guo Jingjing was extroverted and lacked concentration in training, and needed constant reminding. Therefore, Li Fang asked Guo Jingjing to eat and live in the swimming pool, observe others' training while recovering, and mainly put her heart together. During that time, Guo Jingjing was lying in Xiao Mu bed with a splint tied to her leg. While recovering, I watched the training of the players and listened to the coach's speech.
even though she was injured in the swimming pool, she still did her homework at night. Guo Jingjing trains while studying, and can finish her homework every day. This once made the class teacher Wu Wei very strange and asked her when she finished it. Guo Jingjing said it was time to take a break. At noon, and in the afternoon, it is time to do homework after training and before dinner. If I can't finish writing, I'll write in the toilet, because the dormitory will turn off the lights when it's time. In this regard, Guo Jingjing's grandmother was very proud and said, "Our family Jingjing has two brains, one diving and the other learning."
After the 1996 Olympic Games, Guo Jingjing broke her leg and suffered an open fracture during training. According to Yu Fen, then deputy head coach of China diving team, a Guangdong coach turned on the light during training. He was going to turn on the right light, but he turned off the left light. At that time, Guo Jingjing was taking off, but she couldn't see it in mid-air and stepped on it. So he broke. This is quite a blow.
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