Why are they the most outstanding spokespersons for Mesozoic investors?
文高诗朦
Editing Hong Kong
Cartography Huang Zhuyu
2019 “36 great investors under the age of 36” View the full list) The awards will be held at the Investor Future Summit. We call these 36 award-winning investors The most dynamic and passionate of Chinese Mesozoic investors, who excel in thinking, execution and performance far beyond their peers. Among the 36 outstanding investors under the age of 36, some are “super catchers” who are consistently stable and have a high hit rate; some have long focused on a certain field and become a consumer, technology, and corporate services field. Entrepreneurs are the most trusted and unwilling investors; others have created their own new funds in the headwinds of the environment to challenge higher mountains.
We filmed a short film for the 36 winners. This video shows more people who they are, what they believe, what they are pursuing, how they define excellence, and why they represent them. The best group of Mesozoic investors.
We have been through Copy to China, this generation of investors is facing an era of great creativity, the current entrepreneur is no longer an imitator of overseas companies, but a fully open creator Therefore, this generation of investors needs an ever-evolving determination to embrace the uncertainty that has not been verified before the party. At the same time, unlike the previous generation of experienced investors, Mesozoic investors and entrepreneurs grew up in parallel, and their belief in science and technology surpassed the belief in individual experience. This generation of young investors has shown a more open mindset and tolerance for collaboration than the previous one-of-a-kind investment style.
Through interviews, project research, and interviews with CEOs of invested companies, we tried to attribute the excellence of these 36 Mesozoic investors and found that curiosity is their common pursuit, and self-discipline is tough for everyone. Weapons, firm companionshipIt is their unanimous determination to go on.
Curiosity is the enthusiasm for the world to never stop
What is the biggest driver for you to become an investor? In this interview with 36 36under36 great investors, the answer we got the most was: curiosity.
Quick, fighting fish, the former Chinese partner of Sequoia, Cao Yu, likes science fiction. When he was in junior high school, he read “Chao Wen Dao” written by Liu Cixin. At the end of the story, he still remembers it. When the aliens representing the ultimate civilization come to Earth and announce to people that you can get answers to any questions but the price is to die after knowing the truth, “then scientists and historians who have strong curiosity and curiosity.” We are lined up to die.” “That plot makes me feel shocked. I think it is a kind of scientific romanticism.” Cao Yu said that he believes that “ curiosity is both an instinct and an important driving force for human evolution.”
Curiosity also drives Yuan Ye. Yuan Ye and Chen Xing Capital made the investment decision when they were fast or fast GIF, and they were the first investors of this billion-dollar company. The idols are Jobs, Picasso, and Einstein’s Yuan Ye, who believe that the most important thing in investment is “lasting curiosity and lasting awe.” After 8 years of investment, Yuan Ye’s shots are less than 20 projects, but it includes fast hands, veins, keep, musical.ly, snowballs, “Important for the future imagination, excellent entrepreneurship Investors are still seeing a huge future unlike the world today. I think this is the most important driving force for my investment.”
The same time as Yuan Ye encountered fast hands, IDG Capital’s Tong Chen is taking the lead in a post-90s study. He found that more and more young people are embracing the barrage culture almost fanatically. This research also contributed to the cooperation between Tong Chen and Yu. In the summer of 2013, Tong Chen saw the founding team. When many people still can’t understand what the B station is, Tong Chen has become a first-round investor with a keen sense of smell. In March last year, after eight years of development, he successfully listed on the Nasdaq, known as the first after 90.
In 2014, Cao Yu, who just joined Sequoia China, voted for the fighting fish. After many working days, Cao Yu will appear in the Betta live broadcast, listening to a “Fairy Tale Town” by Chen Yi. In mid-July this year, the fighting fish was successfully listed on NASDAQ in the United States. After all the ceremonies on the day, Cao Yu and CEO Chen Shaojie returned to the hotel. Cao Yu asked what the latter felt. Chen Shaojie replied just like getting married as the groom’s official. Congratulations to everyone, taking photos with many people. Cao Yu feels like a best man, standing in the crowd, happy for the young CEO, and feels happy to be involved in it. A curiously driven cooperation has a satisfactory answer for the time being.
Seeking truth is a guide to action in a chaotic world
Thinking is a powerful weapon against cyclical shocks. Huang Yungang, a fast and optimistic early investor and source capital partner, used two sentences to describe the motivation and habits behind his investment in summing up his secrets: curious to know and diligently find answers. This made him a methodist madman, and his colleague described him as “extremely good at opening up industry barriers and being able to re-use the rules of industry A in industry B, based on the general methodology that has been continuously cross-matched.” .
Xiong Fei, who used to work with Huang Yungang for many years, has a similar sense of identity. As a partner of Jingwei China, Xiong Fei has focused on the investment in the To B field, which is mainly based on corporate services. In the past, when the consumer Internet was high and high, Xiong Fei admitted that “to be very lonely”. “It’s the person sitting behind the bench”. But he believes that character is a matter of planning and then moving, and establishing his own methodology through long-term research. In To B, a slow-growing industry, Xiong Fei has invested in a number of star projects in corporate services, including Beisen, Taimei Medical, PingCAP, Shangshang, Gaiya, etc. Some of them have been lined up. A number of boards have grown to the E round and have secured the first market share in their respective fields.
In 2018, the 10th anniversary of Jingwei China was held at the Tianmo Music Festival in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province. At that time, the confusion of Zhao Yi, the founder of Taimei Medical, was how the SaaS service in the medical field could go one step further. Zhao Wei and Xiong Fei walked around a large sand pile in the desert for three hours to discuss where the future medical SaaS went. “When I met Zhao Wei, the company was thirty or forty people. Now that the company has grown up now and encountered difficulties, we have solved these problems together. These have made me feel very fulfilled, because thinking and opinions can really help. The founder can create value.”
Developing another way to find another way is DCL partner Zhao Lei, who sums it up as the courage to “be better than not.” Zhao Lei once invested in Tencent’s investment,