Chapter 58: What did he say?
The year 2000 was a year in which most internet companies died amid China's internet bubble, with only a tiny proportion, around ten percent, managing to break through.
It was during these years that , which would later be acquired by Amazon, was founded, becoming one of the foremost pioneers of this business model. And back in 1999, before the arrival of 2000, China's first e-commerce platform, EachNet, had also been registered and established.
Meanwhile, Jack Ma, the founder of the future industry leader Taobao, established the Alibaba Group at this time. It rapidly became the world's largest e-commerce platform, and in October 2000, he was named one of the global digital business "future leaders" by World Economy.
Around the same year, the China Electronic Commerce Association was officially established, marking the true arrival of China's internet e-commerce era.
At this time, as countless future giants familiar to Su Can were rising, he was merely someone with a few businesses, perhaps not even wealthy enough to be called rich, and simply a student in Class Three, Senior Year Two at No. 27 Middle School in Rongcheng, Xichuan Province.
Faced with the arrival of China's internet e-commerce era and the enormous slice of the future it represented, he began to realize that he ought to do something.
Su Can had overlooked the historical circumstances within his reach and the circles he could access. Establishing a commercial organization capable of rivaling the Alibaba Group in this era was simply too unrealistic. His greatest limitation was technology, and technology was also what he lacked most. To assemble a team like Jack Ma's, he would have to be at a top domestic university capable of cultivating the finest talent in this field.
Beyond that, he would have to