The Story of Ren Jianxin - The Legend
A really brilliant piece on how vision has built empires: "China was no exception, so Ren started his own roadside street business selling affordable hot noodles to passersby on a busy street. He had his own foldable flat panel structure that opened out to form what Nigerians will be familiar with as a 'kiosk'"...the end result today is one of the biggest empires in modern China.
From Tekedia Fellow, John Mc Keown, you will read a really insightful piece on how legends build and grow empires: 'Whenever anybody wants to talk about a Chinese entrepreneur, the first 'go to', for those who want to appear informed is always Jack Ma. Others might possibly mention Ren Zhengfei of Huawei, or perhaps Ken Xie who moved to the U.S. as a child and later built the first first ASIC based firewall/VPN appliance in 1996; sold his company 'Netscreen' to Juniper Networks for $4 billion in 2004, and also founded 'Fortinet'.
I would like to mention a less visible Chinese business magnate, whose name has not gained such populist notoriety, at least, not so much outside China, but has profound accomplishments all the same, and this is Ren Jianxin....
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Click and read about this man and how from selling noodles, he moved to build a dominant global conglomerate.