[Urban farming + era + getting rich + entrepreneurship + business war + boss + chat group]
In May 2009, Chen Bai returned home after failing to apply for a job for the 48th time and saw his girlfriend of four years, Xu Wanru, packing her things.
Xu Wanru asked Chen Bai to come up with a gift of 388,000 yuan, otherwise they would break up.
After being dumped, Chen Bai found that he had created a chat group called "Creating the Future Together" at some point and became the group leader.
This chat group is a bit abstract. Each member of the group is better at "bragging" than the other, and they can make billions of dollars in business if they open their mouths.
Ma Yun: Money is the easiest thing to get in the world. I am not interested in money.
Wang Jianlin: When I started my business, I set a small goal of earning 100 million, but now it seems conservative.
Huang Zheng: The purpose of starting a business is to make money. Later, after I sold the company and achieved financial freedom, I suddenly felt that it was boring.
Rebus: If you stand on the wind, even pigs will fly; if you don't care about life and death, do it if you don't accept it!
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Chen Bai finally couldn't bear to send messages to this group of friends who like COS business tycoons.
Chen Bai: Stop bragging, let's talk first. If I were in 2009 now, what would be the most profitable thing to do?
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Many years later.
A reporter from Fortune, the world's top financial magazine, interviewed Chen Bai: Mr. Chen Bai, how did you become the world's richest man in a short period of time?
Chen Bai: This starts with a chat group...