Digital Kingdom

Through the gloomy years,

I also felt hesitated,

When you lower your head instantly,

Only discovered the way under my feet.

--Inscription

As the largest "unicorn" of China's Internet that has not yet been listed, Brilliant Group always stirs the nerves of the Chinese capital market, and news about its listing is endless.

Just a year ago, Zhao Ziming once stated that he would not consider it for five years.However, if I asked in time last June, this became a “following the trend”, so that when it went public, it became daily news.

Today, just yesterday (March 1), Brilliant Group was listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and the listing rumors finally "boots". This is the largest transaction on the New York Stock Exchange since the listing of Alibaba. It is also expected to become the world's largest this year. Of new technology stocks.

And the brilliant chairman Mr. Zhao Ziming, who became the richest man in the country overnight, and the billionaire under 30, probably only Facebook's Zuckerberg can compare.

I remember a long time ago, I said that Zhao Ziming is a representative of our time. If he is only extremely successful in business, he will not be enough to bear this honor.What really makes people admire is that he has the world and the future of mankind in his heart, but he is extremely soft and humble.

1. In the dark years, a child who wants to change the world.

There was a flame burning in my heart, and it was difficult to calm down. In the playground, I laid a dream: I must be a great person in the future.

——Zhao Ziming, 18 years old.

Like every great person, Zhao Ziming set his ambition very early, dreaming of becoming a hero and changing the world.

However, those who can become heroes must have killed themselves countless times in the middle of the night. They have the mainstay mission, and they all yearn for an epic journey through hardship and rebirth.

They often have to be crushed once in reality to be reborn in the Jedi.

There is as much pride as there is forbearance and humiliation.Purity is the mark of all heroes and the weakness of all heroes.

Zhao Ziming had to go to a second college to study because of his illness during the college entrance examination year. This was a huge blow to the arrogant man.

According to his college classmates, Zhao Ziming hardly attended classes in his freshman and sophomore years, and even the instructor didn't know him very much. He lived in a muddle-headed manner without anything to be praised.

However, never underestimate the heart of a hero. They came into the world as if they were born to change the world.For some reason, in his junior year, Zhao Ziming changed his face and worked hard. The degree of hard work was jaw-dropping. From a small inland town to Oriental University, he made the first leap in his life.

Maybe heroes grew up overnight.

What Zhao Ziming went through in college is unverifiable, loneliness, broken love, insults, ridicule...

From the fact that he rarely talks about the past and never mentions his past career, it can be inferred that those days were not good, and perhaps only painful memories were brought to him.

Demon is a magnificent city, a world-famous capital, and a charming city.However, it is not friendly to a young and poor student, just like a city girl is too arrogant to a country boy.

Later Zhao Ziming also said that 365 days a year, excluding the time to return to his hometown during the holidays, he spends more than 300 days in the library. He rarely leaves the school gate, let alone travels around.

Not because of love to learn, but because of lack of money.

A penny of money stumped the hero. Perhaps unknowingly, the charm of money has taken root in his heart. From the companies he founded, Zhao Ziming has absolute controlling rights, and some are even sole proprietorship. To some extent, it reflects a kind of anxiety in his heart.

2. The way of competition is to know what you cannot do.

The reason why a genius is a genius is by no means something an ordinary man like me can achieve by hard work, but I still have a little bit of unwillingness to give up.Regardless of the success or failure of this venture, I cannot make people full of regrets.I must give it a try to see if I can start a world-class technology company and do something that will benefit everyone in the world.

——Zhao Ziming, 25 years old.

Every time I tell the story of Zhao Ziming, I think of "When the Stars Are Shining". If someone in future generations records this history, he must be one of the dazzling ones, or he will not be understood for a while, but will eventually shine on the sky of human civilization. !

Many people are curious as to why Zhao Ziming achieved great success when he first started his own business, and then became more and more successful, from Golden Dragon Loan to brilliant games, from magic to digital group, from software to hardware, from artificial intelligence to brain-computer interface , Which spans many industries and fields, is almost unprofitable.

Not only cross-sectors, but also some of the world's highest-tech, most difficult, lowest-level, and most whimsical industries-such as brain-computer interfaces, virtual games, blockchain, artificial intelligence, biopharmaceuticals, gene editing...

Any word in it is something that needs to be invested in huge human, material and financial resources, and it will take decades to conquer. What does Zhao Ziming think?What is his thinking?

What is it that supports him step by step to rise to the world, and how to stubbornly change the world?

When others can't bear to leave, the genius is the one who still persists.According to many people, Zhao Ziming is full of energy, sleeps only four hours a day, and spends almost all of his time studying and working.

Although he is a liberal arts background, he has learned a lot of science and engineering knowledge by himself, and he can be called a generalist. His expertise covers biological sciences, engineering, medicine, chemistry, artificial intelligence and other fields.Many industry leaders have revealed that Zhao Ziming is quick-thinking, knows a little about all topics, and can quickly grasp the essence of the problem when talking with people.

Everyone is convinced that cross-field learning can increase the probability of our breakthrough success, but few people really do it. Zhao Ziming persisted for ten years and finally achieved the brilliant achievements of today.

Do not waste any time, minimize ineffective social interactions, always keep multitasking in parallel, work arrangements are as accurate as a machine to every second, firmly believe that programmers think, the world can be changed.He is mysterious, multifaceted, good-natured, quick-witted, and surprisingly speaking. His business philosophy and philosophy of life are both Chinese and Western.

Before founding Jinlongdai, he had a lot of part-time job experience, but none of them were particularly brilliant.At first glance, it looks like an ordinary college student’s work-study program. The only commendable thing is that he once wrote a million-character book to the boss of a company. Expelled.

Maybe from that time, he decided to start a company by himself, and he would never be under the fence anymore. We can’t judge whether his actions were right or wrong, but the courage to not stick to the rules and always want to change something is worthy of encouragement and learning. of.

He once said that only by doing something less, doing everything to the extreme, driving yourself crazy and driving others to death, can you succeed at this level. I think he did it.

I am not worried; I shrink from the opposite direction, although there are millions of people, I am going.

Zhao Ziming believes that the brilliant future is Amazonforgame. It is necessary to do all kinds of game requirements, connect up and down, start with the end (Begin with the Endinmind), first set long-term vision goals based on constant needs, and then shape the future with this, and bet on The territory expansion that I value most.

He competes with Blizzard and Microsoft in the field of game production; he is in full swing with the steam platform in sales intermediaries; he competes with Nintendo and Sony on motion sensing devices; he competes with Bitcoin in virtual currency;

Not to mention vigorously promoting the fun chat business at home and abroad, directly facing the encirclement and suppression of the goose factory; launching the fun video, entering the short video field that is about to usher in fierce competition...

He never cared about the enemy in front of him, no matter how powerful, as long as he wanted to do, he must do it, knowing that he couldn't do it, this kind of knight's courage to challenge the windmill made him go all the way and overcome obstacles.

There is no ultimate success, no doomed failure, but the courage to let everything go on.

Three, above the empire, below ambition.

No matter how restrained I am, I know that deep in my heart there is enthusiasm that will never go away. To be an exaggeration, I am willing to go through fire and water to change the world.I said that I live to change the world, do you believe it?

——Zhao Ziming, 29 years old.

In our history, there will always be people like this who will play a subversive role, bringing history into another new era.As extras, we may not be able to do much, but at least we have to applaud and pay tribute to the hero, not to ridicule it, to add blockage to the hero, although the hero may not care.

Zhao Ziming finally fulfilled the vow he made when he was 18 years old. He was praised and slandered all over the world. How many people liked him, how many people scolded him.

In the eyes of some people, he can already be a god, and he can rank among the greatest entrepreneurs in human history; in the eyes of other people, he may be a white glove with great achievements and a false name.

The early employees of Brilliant Games described Zhao Ziming as an extremely selfish, self-proclaimed bastard who would make wrong decisions at every critical juncture.

The former partner and former executive of Golden Dragon Loan once publicly stated that "he is not expected to be the CEO."The former assistant to the president of the Digital Group said that he has too much power and does not care about the ethical issues brought about by technology.

His critics accused him of having no business ethics, both publicly and privately. He was forgotten, and he looked like an exaggerated salesman, always boasting about selling his company's technology.

so what?

He is still the "whisper" Zhao Ziming, or the courageous Zhao Ziming, he dares to think and dare to do, there is only one reason-he firmly believes that he is right.

He does what he wants to do as he wants, and works tirelessly for it.This is his world, and all of us are closely related to it.

He is harder than 90% of the people in this world, and anyone who has seen everything he has experienced respects him.

His right-hand and close subordinate Shen Yiyi said: "Some people think he is too tough or irritable, even like a tyrant... But it's all because we are in the most difficult time, and people who are familiar with the reality of the company's operations know this. However, I appreciate that he will not hide the facts.

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We should read him, because he and his golden dragon mathematics, magic leap!, Dream, Digital Group, etc.

We should read him because of the unknown alternatives, failures and distress behind his spotlight.

We should read him, because we are not destined to be Zhao Ziming the second, but we can still encourage ourselves to go on like him paranoidly.

He was most criticized for driving out the former investor Yang Xiaolong from the company on the eve of Jinlongdai’s listing. Some people say that he only has interests in his eyes, and some people call him ungrateful...

He has never responded to the public, and he has never defended himself. Maybe he doesn't care about it at all. Maybe in his opinion, why do you need to explain to you when a man is acting?

However, we can see a clue from the situation at that time. Zhao Ziming did not take any of the shares that Yang Xiaolong withdrew, and all of them were transferred to the customers and suppliers of Golden Dragon Loan. It is probably inaccurate to say that he saw the money open.

Perhaps in his mind, everyone has a value. You have a premium. I'm sorry, please leave. Yang Xiaolong's investment once brought great help to Golden Dragon Loan, and of course it has also obtained a huge return.

When one day, the rewards you get far exceed what you paid, then you can only be asked to get out of the game. The close cooperation that was once has become a passing moment.

When asked how to evaluate Brilliant Group, I quoted a title of the magazine "Fast Company". I said: Brilliant Group is a "real unicorn."

Because he is so young and has achieved great success in his first venture, which is very rare.

Think about other companies, either the founder is his second and third entrepreneurial venture; or the entrepreneurial business is very successful, but the company's market value is much different. All this shows that Zhao Ziming is really an epoch-making genius.

As mentioned earlier, simple business achievements cannot make entrepreneurs great. Throughout the ages, many extravagances have been blown away by the rain.

Only philanthropists and capitalists who have the world in mind, care about the future of mankind, and have a strong personal style of doing things can be called heroes of this era.

Today's Digital Group and Zhao Ziming's ambitions are beyond the scope of a simple commercial enterprise, but may have a huge impact on all aspects of our lives, even the future state of life, patterns, and even the organizational form of society. .

Zhao Ziming once said that half of the brilliance should be invested in charity, which is more than 40 billion US dollars in assets.

It is unbelievable, what he will do, let us wait and see.