Let me tell you a joke: I am the CEO of a startup company .
Today, two years ago, I was an Alibaba senior woman with an annual salary of millions and over 10 million options.
But I haven't enjoyed Valentine's Day, the reason is that I don't deserve it .
Today, I want to say something to myself and all the young girls.
1 "Leave Ali, you're a fart!"
In the summer of 2017, I made a decision that surprised everyone: I resigned from Ali, who had been there for 10 years .
My relatives and friends think I am crazy, and the option loss brought by this resignation is conservatively estimated to be at least 10 million.
My girlfriend even scolded me, "Leave Ali, you're a fart!"
What they see will always be the glorious workplace beauty.
What they can't see is me, whose body has been severely overdrawn.
This can be seen from my face.
Now, my skin has become sensitive, red, acne, and flaky, so I don’t dare to look in the mirror every day.
A female subordinate once said to me sadly: "Sister Judy, when you first came to Ali, your skin was so good. A girl from Chengdu envied you. But you are too hard now. You really need to take care of your body. ~"
Two years ago, my friend, the CEO of a well-known Internet medical company in China, passed away suddenly at the age of 44.
A senior woman friend of mine said this when he resigned:
"I'm only in my early 30s. Although my income is high, the price is higher. I don't want to ruin myself."
She stayed in Beijing for almost 11 years and worked for 6 years, but her eldest aunt has not been normal for almost 3 years.
When she said she couldn't be a mother, I thought she was joking. Because it's not just me, but also the "big aunts" of several female colleagues around me.
Staying up late and working overtime, traveling to 3-5 cities a week, and year-round overload of work pressure, we have long been accustomed to acne, headache, hair loss, cervical spondylosis, gastritis, etc.
I gradually realized that, in the deepest night, applying the most expensive cream is actually useless.
No matter how awesome people are, they can't fight against physical weakness .
One night, looking at the happy photos I had left in a cafe in Montpellier, southern France, I cried so sad.
I haven't smelled the scent of flowers for a long time, have never heard of birds, and have never cooked breakfast for myself in the morning .
Ali's work has made me a wealthy woman, made me financially independent, and let me not care whether the men I met are rich.
However, I have become more and more boring, more and more anxious, I have no time to appreciate art and enjoy life.
This series of events made me have to think about the meaning of life.
Is there only work left in my life?
After leaving Ali, am I really worthless?
I work desperately and earn money, but in the end I pay for my health. Is this life worth it?
In the first half of my life, there was only a fast forward button, but I never pressed the pause button.
2 Persist in the strength of a lifetime
After resigning, I am romantic and hope to find the answer in France, a place similar to my temperament.
So I embarked on a study tour in Europe.
Professor Ramanantasao, Academic Director of the International Luxury Brand Management MBA Program of ESSEC Business School, France
Van Cleef & Arpels workshop management Ms. Vranceanu
Van Cleef & Arpels Jewellery Institute, 22 Place Vendôme, Paris.
In this 18th-century old house, skilled craftsmen are immersed in sculpting day after day, year after year. Their rough hands are full of joy when they hold out their dazzling works.
Wandering between these accessories, I often fall into thinking, why do they dedicate their lives to these items? But not the other?
Focus on one thing for a lifetime, what is the power behind it?
In the luxury workshop, experienced Prof. Nyeck answered my question. He is also a senior consultant of LV and a big man in the luxury goods industry.
The first sentence he said was: Luxury is Culture ( Luxury is culture) .
I suddenly realized.
Behind a brand, what supports it is not only aesthetic works, commercial products, but more importantly, the concepts and values conveyed by products and works.
For example, why should human beings pursue beauty? Why should I pursue beauty?
After thinking about it, I came up with my own answer: This is one of the values that the world depends on to get better .
I can make the people around me and the world around me more beautiful through my actions.
Value determines ideas, ideas determine behavior, and behavior changes us.
3 a rotten face, changed the rest of my life
As a professional OL, I have the habit of applying facial mask every day. Once I put on a few pieces of facial masks that my friend sent me back from a trip to Japan, and then my face started to become red, pimple, and itchy, and I was scratching all night during sleep.
Glucocorticoids ".
After returning to China, I treated for 2 weeks before removing the pustules, and it took about half a year for the acne marks to fade.
After further understanding, I realized that my experience was not a single case. The chaos in the skin care industry has long been very serious:
Cheap products love to add harmful ingredients, safe products are too expensive, false propaganda, incredible price increase rates, huge profits...
This almost disfigured encounter made me feel painful.
We turn on our mobile phones every day, "Fan Bingbing puts on a facial mask every day", "Big S eats anticoagulant for whitening" news is endless, but few people jump out and say: Hey, you are not doing it right!
Well, I plan to be the one who jumps out.
What kind of beauty approach is scientific, healthy, and appropriate?
Thinking of my own miserable experience, the idea of changing the chaos of the industry, making a skin care product that I dare to use and can afford with my eyes closed, sprouted in my heart.
I want to start a business. I want to create a new youth brand of domestic products that is confident, free, self-reliant and self-beautiful .
However, I met opposition from everyone around me.
Entrepreneurship itself is very difficult. Cross-border is even more difficult, requiring integration and tolerance between different industries, and the success rate is lower.
I asked my former boss Jack Ma, and he sent me an 8-character text message: Stick to the original intention and do it bravely .
4 traveled all over the world, we have made it
Although I have been in the Internet industry for more than a decade, I am still a layman in the beauty industry.
I think of Dr. Ashott in the United States .
He is the world's top expert in the field of anti-free radicals. In 2004, he won many awards from the European Academy of Humanities and Natural Sciences, and obtained many research patents and achievements.
No matter how I lobby, he remains unmoved.
A week later, I returned without success. On the plane back home, I remembered the hardships of rushing to Beijing, the incomprehension I encountered when I left my job, and my disappointment and sadness. For a while, I couldn't help crying.
Everyone on the plane thought I was crazy.
Later, an old grandmother with her granddaughter in the front row turned her head and gave me a pack of fudge, smiling and saying to me: Everything will be allright.
I want to create a series of beauty products that are no less expensive than international brands and are only one-tenth of them, so that more Chinese girls can enjoy the safest and most fragrant beauty experience.
There are 200 million young girls like China.
Dr. A Xiaote silent for five seconds, said the sentence " the I by Will the Follow you I am willing to follow you .
After a long time, I learned that this is Ricky Nelson's famous song in the 1960s.