Ma Dian was born in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province. His grandfather served as a security chief during the Anti-Japanese War. After liberation, he was classified as a "black Wu class". Make less trouble.

At the age of twelve, Ma Dian bought a pocket radio. From then on, he listened to English broadcasts every day and became interested in English.

Since the age of thirteen, Ma Dian was forced to transfer to Hangzhou No. 8 Middle School because of too many fights.

When Ma Den took the senior high school entrance examination, it took him two years to get into an extremely ordinary high school—one of which he only scored 31 points in mathematics.

In 1982, Ma Dian took the college entrance examination for the first time, and also failed for the first time. He only scored 1 point in mathematics-Ma Dian was full of frustration for this.

After failing the college entrance examination, Ma Dian's father, Ma Laifa, sees Ma Dian's depression, and asks Ma Dian to send books to the magazine on three wheels.

Later, Ma Den and his cousin went to a hotel to apply for a job as a waiter. As a result, his cousin was hired, but Ma Den was rejected. The reason given by the boss was that Ma Den was thin, short and not good-looking.

Later, Ma Dian worked as a secretary and a porter.

In 1983, Ma Dian took the college entrance examination for the second time and failed again—this time, Ma Dian improved his math score to 19 points.

With such achievements, Ma Dian's parents persuaded Ma Dian to stop going to college and learn a craft.

After failing the college entrance examination for the second time, Ma Dian began to ride his dilapidated bicycle through the streets and alleys of Hangzhou again.

In 1984, despite his family's strong opposition, Ma Dian took the college entrance examination for the third time—this time Ma Dian scored 89 points in the math test, but he was still 5 points short of the undergraduate line.

Later, due to the lack of enrollment targets for English majors, some candidates who excelled in English were given the opportunity to be promoted, and Ma Dian was lucky enough to be admitted to the foreign language undergraduate major by Hangzhou Normal University.

After entering the university, Ma Dian became a good student with both good character and academic performance. With his excellent English proficiency, he was ranked among the top five in the foreign language department.

Moreover, Ma Dian was also elected as the president of the student union during his school days.

Later, Ma Dian served as the chairman of the Hangzhou Municipal Government for two terms.

In 1988, Ma Dian graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages ​​of Hangzhou Normal University, majoring in English, with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and was assigned to Hangzhou Institute of Electronic Industry (now Hangzhou Dianzi University) as a lecturer in English and international trade.

Soon, Ma Dian became an outstanding young teacher in Hangzhou, and initiated the first English corner by the West Lake, and at the same time became well-known in the translation circle in Hangzhou.

In 1992, because many people came to ask Ma Dian to be an interpreter, Ma Dian established Haibo Translation Agency, inviting retired teachers to do translation together.

In order for Haibo Translation Agency to survive, Ma Dian went to Yiwu and Guangzhou to buy goods with big bags on his back. Haibo Translation Agency began to sell flowers and gifts along the way, and even sold medicine for a year. Great hospital, down to Barefoot Doctor.

Last year, the revenue of Haibo Translation Agency, which has been in a state of loss, was flat. Bill, a foreign teacher from Seattle, chatted with Ma Dian about the Internet, and Ma Dian began to think about looking for entrepreneurial opportunities on the Internet.

At the beginning of this year, Haibo Translation Agency began to make money. Ma Dian came to Los Angeles as a translator to communicate and implement a highway investment. After failing to implement a highway investment, he flew from Los Angeles to Seattle to find Bill. Bill led Ma Dian to visit VBN, the first ISP company in Seattle.

After returning from the United States, Ma Dian resigned from the Hangzhou Institute of Electronic Technology. He took out 6,000 to 7,000 yuan, borrowed more than 10,000 yuan from his sister and brother-in-law, and made up 20,000 yuan to create China with his wife Zhang Ying and his friend He Yibing. yellow pages.

Some time ago, the three of Ma Dian took on a big business deal - they built a website for the Zhejiang Provincial Foreign Publicity Office to promote Zhejiang's economy and culture online, called the "Golden Pigeon Project".

The "Golden Pigeon Project" business is good, and there will be huge profits if it is done well, but the problem is that the three of them lack the start-up capital to complete the project.

In order to raise start-up funds, the three of Ma Dian used all the methods they could think of. Under some strange circumstances, Ma Dian wrote an 800-character letter for help to Xu Cun, a well-known "great philanthropist" in the Internet world.

Later, the three of Ma Dian borrowed the start-up funds for the "Golden Pigeon Project" project from relatives and friends.

Therefore, Ma Den gradually forgot about writing to Xu Cun for help. At that time, Ma Den, who was going crazy, was trying his luck. Later, he thought it was a bit funny when he thought of it. What is his identity, how could he pay attention to this little man who has nothing?

What Ma Dian never expected was that Xu Cun sent someone to find him just as the "Golden Pigeon Project" was about to be completed. Moreover, the person Xu Cun sent told him to let him have time to talk to him. Xu Cun met and chatted.

After learning that Xu Cun, a big man, wanted to see him, a small man, Ma Dian was a little unbelieving.

How could the person running errands for Xu Cun be an ordinary person? The person running errands for Xu Cun this time is Wang Dongsheng, President of Baye Bank China. Wang Dongsheng graduated from Indiana University in the United States with a master's degree in computer, marketing and finance. He served as the director of sales, service and sales in North Asia for seven years, and later joined Standard Chartered Bank as the director of personal banking business. Later, Standard Chartered Bank was acquired by Xu Cun. Because of his outstanding character and ability, he was jointly named by Mei Aifang and Zheng Haiquan Recommended to Xu Cun. When Baye Bank entered the mainland, he was one of the main persons in charge. He contributed a lot to Baye Bank becoming the largest bank in the mainland. Later, Xu Cun personally promoted him as the president of Baye Bank in China .

How could an elite like Wang Dongsheng who has worked hard in the business world for more than 20 years fail to see that Ma Dian didn't believe what he said?

In this regard, Wang Dongsheng did not say much, but smiled and left his business card for Ma Den, and then left-Wang Dongsheng has confidence in Baye Bank and himself, and he believes that Ma Den will take the initiative to give him It was on the phone, and Mr. Xu's secretary, Li Jiaxin, said when explaining the matter that this matter is not urgent, and Mr. Xu is currently on vacation in the United States.

really!

After Wang Dongsheng left, Ma Dian was taken aback when he saw Wang Dongsheng's business card!

Later, Ma Dian inquired through his network, and soon confirmed that Wang Dongsheng was the real president of Baye Bank China.

With this confirmation, Ma Dian immediately called Wang Dongsheng to apologize according to Wang Dongsheng's business card!

Wang Dongsheng was very polite to Ma Den, but said again that Xu Cun wanted to see Ma Den, and said that there was no rush, and that Xu Cun was on vacation in the United States.

Xu Cun is not in a hurry to meet Ma Dian, but Ma Dian, who is good at seizing opportunities, is anxious to meet Xu Cun, the "great good man" in the Internet world!

So Ma Dian asked Wang Dongsheng, and Wang Dongsheng asked Xu Cun for instructions.

Finally, Ma Dian came to Neverland and met Xu Cun as he wished...

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