Reborn: I Beat Jack Ma, Lei Jun, and Other Moguls to the Punch and Built a Business Empire
In 2019, 35-year-old Zhou Ming leapt from the roof of his apartment building, driven to despair by repeated failed startups and crushing debt.
When he opened his eyes again, he was back in his college dorm in 2003: three months before Alibaba launched Taobao, seven years before Xiaomi was founded, and one year before Tencent went public.
This time, armed with twenty years of business knowledge from the future, he decided he would no longer stand by as history unfolded.
“If I’ve been given another life, then I’ll be the one to define the ideas and opportunities that change the times.”
Starting in his college dorm, he beats others to the idea for Alipay, launching Yifutong to reshape electronic payments. While Lei Jun is still pondering Kingsoft’s future, Zhou Ming is first to propose the concept of an “internet phone.” On the eve of Tencent’s IPO, he uses a “campus social networking app” to pry open a crack in its social media empire.
E-commerce, social media, smartphones, cloud computing, artificial intelligence... With vision far ahead of his time, he places his pieces at every pivotal moment. Jack Ma considers him his most dangerous rival. Lei Jun is both his friend and foe, while Ma Huateng repeatedly studies every one of his product updates late into the night.
It is a race against time. Zhou Ming must not only build his own business empire, but also face one ultimate question: now that he has changed everyone’s fate, will this world still be the future he remembers?
