新上海企业家

New Shanghai Entrepreneurs

“上海不出企业家”。上海真的不出企业家吗?中国商界的这一“咒语”,正在被一群新生的上海企业家打破。199g年,携程、盛大创立:2002年,分众、如家创立,在此后的三五年间．这几家由上海人在上海创立的上海企业．迅速成为国际投资者的宠儿,成为中国企业界的耀眼明星。同样是“胆小”,同样是“算计”,同样是“崇洋迷外”,为什么这些原先制约上海人创业、诞生企业家群落的“缺点”,却在陈天桥、江南春、梁建章、季琦这些新上海企业家身上,变成了创下大业的“优势”?是企业家的定义变了还是上海人的内在气质变了?四五家企业、七八个新企业家,也许还不足以推翻“上海不出企业家”的咒语,但假如这几个人身上的气质恰好代表了中国商业与全球契合的新方向,那就值得我们认真解读这几个样本了。

Jiang Nanchun still remembers Mother's advice, 'Don't get close to waters, otherwise you will get drowned.' He was a well-behaved child and always follows Mother's advice.--But now, this typical Shanghainese, who describes himself as extremely prudential and risk-averse, has led China's largest media company calculated in market capitalization. There is controversy about whether Shanghai has real entrepreneurs. Some argue that most Shanghainese are too prudential, picky and lack of the vision as an entrepreneur. The founding of some huge companies like Baosteel and Shanghai Automotive seem not change this perception cither. However, since 2000, some young entrepreneurs who speak fluent English. Mandarin and even Shanghai dialect are active in the business community and it's now time for the change. Among these new enterprise founders and business operators, there are Chen Tianqiao. Jiang Nanchun and Liang Jianzhang who are in their thirties, and Shen Nanpeng, Ji Qi, Fan Min, Sun Jian who are in their forties. These Shanghai entrepreneurs, with their typical characteristics, have now become new stars in Chinese business community.