Li Keqiang's red packet and Cook's American coffee

It is a tacit secret among entrepreneurs to want American concentration instead of cappuccino. Espresso mixed with water, there is a pure bitter coffee, but also with a little bit of acid, a little bit of sweetness, aroma contains an aftertaste.

From October 12 to 19, 2016, the National activity week of "Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation" was launched in Shenzhen and Beijing. This year, mass entrepreneurship and innovation week settled in Shenzhen for the first time. When Li Keqiang visited the relevant theme exhibition, at the invitation of Ma Huateng, he clicked on the touch screen and sent red envelopes to the entrepreneurs. This time, Apple CEO Cook brought a red packet to announce the establishment of a new R & D center in Shenzhen. Like the Beijing R & D Center, Shenzhen R & D Center will also strive to strengthen relations with local partners and universities to support talent development across the country.

Somewhat awkwardly, this mass entrepreneurship and innovation activity week coincides with the introduction of the draft rules and regulations for ride-hailing, which are widely regarded by the outside world as a "subversion" of the Internet sharing economy. On the other hand, when Cook tried to pay for American coffee with his Apple Pay, he was told that the payment failed because it was a foreign currency card. Subsequently, when participating in the dialogue session of mass entrepreneurship and innovation activity week, Ma Huateng said that he hoped that the new car-hailing policy would not be killed with one blow, and that he would be prudent, give buffer time, and conduct further research. On the other hand, Premier Li Keqiang said that after hearing this issue, the basic principles are clear and will require the cities concerned to conduct a study.

In the context of great history, these are all small waves. The Internet has changed the clothing, food, housing and transportation of Chinese people, changed payment, education, viewing and social groups, and the change will continue in the future. Change has become a consensus among policy makers and entrepreneurs, and the people who live in it. The only difference is whether the process of change is faster or slower. For each industry, does change need to be more radical or conservative?

This is not only a process of forming a new ecology, but also a process of upgrading dimension again and again. A year ago, we might have asked whether everything had come to a standstill in the face of the monopoly formed by BAT. But now, no one can deny that the best future BAT can think of is to become the cornerstone of dimensionalization. even today's so-called unicorns are rapidly depositing into soil and becoming tools for all kinds of new species growing on their bodies-and these IP-based new species are the future of the Internet.

Therefore, I am often amazed by Jack Ma's insight: on the morning of October 13, 2016, Jack Ma, chairman of Alibaba Group, proposed that the next 30 years will be 30 years of earth-shaking human society. The world will change far beyond imagination, the word "e-commerce" will soon be eliminated, and retail, new manufacturing, new finance, new technology and new energy will have a profound impact on the world.

Jack Ma must have considered the end of Ali countless times. In a previous event, Zeng Ming of Ali Research Institute gave the answer to this question that Ali's Terminator should still be writing programs in a high school dormitory. In fact, Ali is likely to be summed up by a whole generation of young people. This is the generation immersed in the mobile Internet, what they will do in the future is not necessarily destructive, subversive innovation, not necessarily to smash the BAT, but more likely to be a high-dimensional reconstruction.

On the other hand, this will be an era of IP. People divided into groups, subcultures, and small tribes will blossom in diversity on the basis of today, forming countless small ecosystems, such as mobike and bilibili. In fact, when you are among young people, you will find that this is what is happening.

Jack Ma once described the future in this way: "what really impacts all kinds of industries is the traditional thinking and the non-embrace of the future." People always grow old and become closed and conservative. what should I do? You might as well find more young people to have a cup of American coffee. After all, human society also has a consistent little tradition, and the little secret of entrepreneurs and American coffee is one of them.