Take Stock Of Two Amazing Coincidences Of Musk And Ma Yun

In 1995, we founded Zip2, a platform that helps traditional media and publish content and information to the Internet, including yellow pages and white pages.

Coincidentally, in 1995, Ma also founded the "China Yellow Pages". Therefore, the two companies were born not only in the same year, but also in the "Yellow Pages" model of China and Zip2.

In 1999, Zip2 was bought by Compaq for $307 million in cash (and Mask also got a share of the stock). This year Mask was only 28 years old, with a value of around 400 million dollars, and 400 million dollars in 1999 should be worth more than 400 million dollars now.

But young musk didn't use the money to enjoy life. Instead, he founded another company, x.com, in 1999 to prepare for online banking.

Coincidentally, in 1999, Ma also founded the Alibaba.

That is to say, Mask and

The two time of starting a company is in the same year, and there is a certain degree of similarity in the business done.

Soon after, x.com changed its name to PayPal, specializing in online payment. After that, PayPal was acquired by eBay and became the standard payment tool for eBay. Later, eBay was once the most powerful opponent of Alibaba in China.

In view of this, musk started the creation of Tesla and SpaceX, a typical Internet entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, and had deep roots in e-commerce. But surprisingly, he suddenly entered the automobile and aviation industry, and rebuilt the two traditional industries with his unique way of thinking and deep bone marrow Internet gene.

In addition, more than 20 years ago, Mask had written a paper with people about search technology, some of which were very similar to the later Google, so Mask said he had probably set up a company similar to Google more than 20 years ago.

Ma Yun led in 2014.

Listed in the US, becoming the world's second largest Internet Co in the world.

Ma Yun began to make further progress through ants finance, rookie logistics and other subsidiaries in the industry.

Two cattle people, the initial path is so coincidental, maybe there are reasons for the development of the Internet, but fundamentally determined by their insight into the Internet and their endless desire to struggle.