How long will entrepreneurs work?
60 years old is the legal retirement age, basically to 65 years old, most people are retired, such as Pan Shiyi retired to play photography, Ma retired as a "teacher", Huang Zheng retired to study food science and life science.
However, there are still a large number of entrepreneurs over 65 years old who are struggling on the front line, and these entrepreneurs who have not yet retired are doing what?
Pang Kang is a super low-profile big brother, almost did not accept the media interviews, seldom appear in the outside world, in the Haitian Taste industry's official website there is no Pang Kang's introduction.
Haitian Taste can from a small sauce garden in the production value of Guangzhou Zhimei Zhai sauce garden, Beijing Liubijiu, Yangzhou Sanhe, Changsha Jiu Ruzhai four ancient sauce garden, Pang Kang credit.
After graduating from the Nanjing Normal University, food machinery, Pang Kang was assigned to Haitian Taste Industry, he did from the grass-roots employees step by step to the position of deputy general manager. During this period, he first improved the encapsulation process, and then introduced the German advanced production line, so that Haitian Taste from Foshan to the whole country. After the restructuring, Pang Kang was the general manager and chairman of Haitian Taste and became its largest shareholder.
Haitian Taste is known as a wealth-making factory, when it went public in 2014, it created 34 billionaires at once, and its deputy general manager, Cheng Xue, was ranked first in the Hurun Professional Manager Ranking 2021, with a wealth of 65 billion dollars, which is six times that of Ali's chairman Zhang Yong.
As can be seen from the position, Pang Kang is now responsible for the company's overall business, in terms of business vision, he exceeded many older entrepreneurs too much, Pang Kang also gave many old brands to explore a new road - new bottles of old wine, with modern technology, operating old products.
Wanda Group from a real estate company to become a diversified giant covering real estate, film and television, sports, health care, investment, etc., the enterprise is bigger and bigger, Wang Jianlin is also more and more busy and tired.
From 1989 to the restructuring of the former Xigang District Housing Development Company as a general manager, Wang Jianlin has been struggling for 32 years, 2019 circulated a "Wang Jianlin's day" itinerary, from 4:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., 15 hours, traveled to two countries, three cities, flew more than 6,000 kilometers, signed a 50 billion dollar contract, and then took a trip to the United States. More than kilometers, signed a 50 billion dollar contract.
For the average person, 67 is the age of retirement, but for Wang Jianlin, it's the prime of life.
In 2017, there were changes in real estate policy, banks tightened the silver root, and 600 billion in debt made the outside world think for a time that Wanda Group was going to go bankrupt, and the richest man became the most negative. Wang Jianlin sold some of his assets, such as 77 hotels packaged and sold to Fortune Group, and sold the cultural tourism project to Sunac Group, etc., and successfully saved himself.
So far this year, Wang Jianlin is as busy as usual, two days ago, Wanda set up a rural revitalization leading group, Wang Jianlin himself as the leader. Last month, Wang signed two big contracts in Tianjin, first signing a strategic cooperation agreement with China FAW, and then signing a seaside cultural tourism complex project with the People's Government of Binhai New Area and the Administrative Committee of Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city.
Wang Jianlin does not have any news of retirement, from some cases, but also in the slow decentralization, the future of the Wanda Group is likely to be handed over to the professional managers, so big a group, let Wang Si Cong to manage the words, it is indeed a little difficult.
Before starting his own business, Glittering's father and Jack Ma's father worked in a unit, and the two are considered neighbors, but their personalities are completely opposite. While Jack Ma likes to make statements in front of the stage, Glittering Zhong likes to maneuver behind the scenes.
The opposite of personal low-profile, furtively glittering Zhong believes that the enterprise should be high-profile, he once said: "The enterprise does not hype, is the mummy." He even believes that the publicity methods of enterprises do not care whether it is right or wrong, to see whether it is appropriate.
Zhong furtively睒, in addition to the work of the biggest hobby is to love to see the emperor film, promote the fight business war.
In the drinking water industry, furtively glittering Nongfushanquan was founded by the business war on the throne, he first war Wahaha and other pure water companies, and war Yibao and other mineral water in the weak acid enterprises. In Nongfushanquan "quality door" event, and the Beijing Times confrontation for four years, glittering Zhong said: "We never say soft words, even if they are wrong, but also say hard words."
Now glittering glittering not only as the chairman of the board of directors, general manager of Nongfushanquan, but also direct management of the brand, sales and manpower work, can be said to be hands-on.
In the early years, glittering Zhong Glittering once said: "I think my son is not able to take over, I have died this heart. My daughter is still young, and there is no chance."
70-year-old Liu Yonghao is still active in front of the stage, not only as chairman and president of the New Hope Group, New Hope Investment and many other enterprises, but also a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the National Committee of the CPPCC Economic Committee deputy director. In March this year, he also won the title of "China's 50 most influential business leaders".
Liu Yonghao life, both the wealth and honor, in China's economic takeoff tide left a heavy figure. 20 years old, did not wear new clothes, did not wear decent shoes, New Year's Day to eat a meal meat is very difficult. 20 years old, became the world's king of the partridge, China's king of the feed, initiated the establishment of the Chinese People's Bank of Minsheng and its major shareholders, and also when China's richest man.
In the official website of the New Hope Group, "media reports" column, Liu Yonghao, frequently active in major events, the idea is to keep up with the times, such as in a number of speeches mentioned artificial intelligence, mobile Internet, big data and other new technologies.
In the last month, New Hope Group entered the world's top 500 list for the first time, Liu Yonghao published a letter to the whole staff, and asked Harvard Business School to conduct training on digital transformation strategy acceleration, Liu Yonghao, who has entered his old age, does not look like 70 years old at all.
Some media summarized Liu Yonghao's success, there is a particularly pertinent sentence: first help farmers earn money, and then earn the farmers' money.
The life of Tao Huabi, the godmother, is legendary. Born in 1947, like all Chinese at that time, her family was poor and she had never studied. 20 years old, she married, but she did not expect her husband to die young, leaving her and her two children behind, and she founded Lao Ganma in the desperate situation of her life.
I didn't realize that this word can't read a few Lao Ganma has created a miracle, "Lao Ganma" brand has become another business card of Guizhou after Moutai, and the tax payment of 800 million in 3 years has made Tao Huabi proud of herself. She once said, "Be honest, do business honestly, don't go to the fake, the consumer ate also feel at ease."
From 2014 onwards, toiling for many years, Tao Huabi because of health reasons, will be handed over to the two sons to manage the enterprise, toiling all his life, would like to be able to enjoy his old age to rest, did not expect, without the Lao Ganma Lao Ganma, problems arise frequently.
The oldest son invested in real estate companies, the operation of the building into a rotten building, the youngest son tube Lao Ganma, in order to save costs, Guizhou pepper all replaced by Henan pepper, resulting in poor taste, sales decline.
Lao Gan Ma factory in Guiyang, two fires in a month, resulting in losses of nearly 100 million yuan.
The 70-year-old Tao Huabi had to come out again, and the first thing he did after coming out was to change the raw materials back to the original Guizhou chili peppers, and sales that year exceeded 5 billion.
An illiterate rural woman, can make billions of dollars in business, why is it difficult to continue the splendor of the mother's son with a high school diploma?
This should also be Tao Huabi's words, you really, the consumer is also real, you play a small mind, the consumer will also play a small mind.
Zong Qinghou and Wahaha appeared in the news from time to time, before because of the rapid development of the enterprise, Zong Qinghou ascended to the throne of China's richest man, and now more about the succession problem, 76-year-old Zong Qinghou sticking to the front line, 39-year-old daughter Zong Fuli try to brand transformation, but the effect is general.
In recent years, Wahaha's growth and profits have been relatively weak, on the one hand, it is trying to understand the young people and optimize the existing business, on the one hand, it is developing new businesses, for example, in 2019, Wahaha Intelligent Robotics was established, Zong Qinghou is the corporate legal person and chairman of the board of directors, and the company operates in the business of research and development and manufacture and sale of intelligent robots, machines and equipment, parts and components.
In addition to the intelligent robot business, Zong Qinghou recently got a fund license, and there is speculation that Wahaha wants to engage in the fund business.
Whether it is intelligent robots, or fund business, is the normal business of the enterprise, 76-year-old Zong Qinghou can still personally on the battlefield, it is really admirable, in fact, these businesses to his daughter to do, he stood behind the more appropriate, toiling for a lifetime, it should be to give themselves a vacation.
Ren Zhengfei, born in October 1944, will be 77 years old in a month or so, 43 years old to start a business, is now a struggle for 34 years. Last year stepped down as a director of Huawei's Shanghai subsidiary, speculation that it may have to retire, and then Ren Zhengfei said in an interview, cleaning up some subsidiaries to make way for young people.
Ren Zhengfei said a long time ago that he would not let his children take over his own class: "My family is just professional managers, Huawei will never become a family business." He designed a way out for Huawei is the "rotating chairman system", during the rotation, the chairman is the company's supreme leader, but there will be a board of directors constraints.
Older and suffering from diabetes and hypertension, Ren Zhengfei once said that he could not sit for two hours, the body is not as good as before, and now he wants to retire but can not retire. U.S. sanctions, the glory of the phone business divestment, daughter Meng Wanzhou was unjustifiably detained by Canada, in this eventful period, Ren Zhengfei is the spiritual leader of Huawei.
Some time ago, Huawei decided to close its Canadian branch, dismissed local employees, withdrew its technicians, and refused to authorize 5G patents to Canada, which was the first time in the history of human business, according to Western media. The lion Ren Zhengfei struck back at a country.
Although he resigned from the positions of chairman and vice-chairman, and now only holds the positions of president and director of two important companies in Huawei, at the strategic level of Huawei, Ren Zhengfei is still active.
The year before last, Ren Zhengfei said when talking about the issue of retirement, "I will retire when I can't keep up with my thinking, I'm still in a state of talent, stay a few more days!"
He Xiangjian, founder of the United States, is one of China's rare low-profile entrepreneurs, low-key to many employees have not seen him, since the United States in 2012 to the United States Group to Fang Hongbo, he now serves only as the chairman of the United States Holdings, is considered a semi-retirement status.
In the early days of the business, He Xiangjian is also a desperate man, he recalled: "As a general manager, every day there are endless documents to read, sign endless words. Even if you only sleep 4 hours a day, you can't handle everything in time."
Later, he found a professional manager, Fang Hongbo, let Fang Hongbo to do, the outside world He Xiangjian analogized to "Liu Bei in a suit", Fang Hongbo analogized to "Zhuge Liang".
The chairman and president of the position to Fang Hongbo, He Xiangjian is still the largest shareholder of the United States, but he did not care about anything, love golf, every year to maintain the level of 80 strokes.
When playing golf with company executives, he also advised: "Know how stupid you are? Overtime, overtime, screwed up and still no money, what are you guys for?"
The most recent appearance in the news, was in June last year, in the Junlan International Golf Life Village in his own villa, five loafers forced into the residence to ransom the kidnapping, the police after the alarm the first time to solve the crisis.
Compared with other older entrepreneurs, He Xiangjian is clearly the most dashing.
Conclusion:
It's easy to start a business, it's hard to keep a business, and when you're at this age, you don't really care about the money, so whether or not you can pass on the business is the biggest concern.
Chinese family business how to inherit this issue has been discussed for many years, some people will be their own business to children to inherit, some people will be the manager of the enterprise, no matter which way, the probability of success or failure are in 50%.
After all, there is no such thing as an eternally successful business, only a business of the times.