Innovators, they are not one person, they are group of people. So when you invest in the money in somebody, you should see, does this guy have followers? If you have a group of people who are crazy like him, that would be great. I remember early 2000, I went to United States to talk about, make my speech about internet in the future in China. I believe internet population in China will be bigger than the USA. People say, ah, that is not true. My reason was very simple. China have 1.4 billion people. USA have only 300 million people. Make everybody online, 300 million, right? So China has a huge potential for that. One of the guys said, Jack, what you're talking about, internet companies should have values and mission. That is crazy. And I say, sir, please come to my company. So I came to Hangzhou, my company, spent one week. And the day he left, he said, Jack, I know you're crazy, but I found 100 people in your companies, they're all crazy. Crazy people don't think they're crazy. They think people outside, they're crazy. So, and most of the innovators are not very success people because successful people, very difficult to change. I never try to convince successful people. They will tell you how they succeed. They will continue to do this. Those people who don't succeed, they always want to succeed. So one of the reasons why Alibaba succeed 20 years ago, we never try to convince those people who are successful. We try to spend time on the people who are 18 years old, 20 years old, they are not successful. So 20 years later, they become successful. We become successful. That is how we did it. Now, most of the people who buy online, they are 35 to 40. 20 years ago, they only spent $2. Now they spend $3,000. That is the difference. Innovation has nothing to do with the technology. When we talk about innovation, everybody say, ah, high technology. It's not about that. Innovation, everybody can do it. Those people who do not know anything like technology, like me, we can find those people, rely on these people, try those people who have the technology. In our site, our Alibaba site, there's one guy selling shoes 48 inches only. And I say, how can this guy sell shoes for 48 inches? And we find out he's very innovative because people with 48 inches feet, difficult for him to buy shoes in the shops. There's only one on the online. And there are a lot of innovative ways. Those guys design, lazy guys, they watch TV lying on the sofa. So they designed a specific glass that you can lie on the sofa, watch TV. They sell perfectly. And there are also some guys, there are a lot of crazy, interesting ideas. They are all wonderful sellers. And most of the innovations today are only talk. Innovation, they think it's an idea. Entrepreneurs make the innovation reality. So we have to show a real entrepreneur have to believe in the future, have to suffer, have to be ready for the terrible lives in the future. So we think, I believe everybody has the ability of innovation, but you just don't spend the time to discover that. And I think the best investment for tomorrow is education. In the past 20 years, we make people like machines. Next 20 years, we will make machine like a people. You like it, don't like it. We have to change ourselves. This thing is coming. What we should do to change our education systems, to teach our kids, they can do the things the machine cannot do. It's the entrepreneurships that make ideas reality. In 1860s, when UK had first the cars, the cars came in, automobile coming, they destroyed a lot of jobs of this horsemen. Horsemen at that time are the main jobs of the society. These are white collar people. They went to the government, pushed the government, say, you should stop these cars because they're gonna kill people on the road, it's going to destroy the jobs. So the government passed a law called Red Flag Bill. They do not allow any car drive faster than seven miles per hour. And they should always follow behind the causes. People start to worry, artificial intelligence, robots, jobs, but don't worry about it. Human beings are much smarter than machines. Machine can never control because machine only have chips. Human beings have the hearts. And I wanna say, don't worry about the future. Young people don't worry of the future. And don't worry about the size of the machine. I think small business don't worry about because small business believe small is powerful, small is beautiful. Using innovation, small business can compete anybody in the world. Today is just the beginning, but anything, remember, this is my philosophy of life the past 20 years. Today is difficult. Tomorrow is much more difficult. The day of tomorrow is beautiful. Most people die tomorrow evening.
