这是“一部正在发生的创业史”。
创业纪实电影《燃点》于昨日上映，为观众讲述中国第三代创业者们的奋斗历程。
卡司阵容涵盖了14位在舆论风口浪尖的常客——
锤子科技创始人罗永浩、ofo创始人戴威、经纬中国创始管理合伙人张颖、papitube创始人papi、猎豹移动创始人傅盛、草根创业者安传东、新氧科技创始人金星、米果文化创始人马薇薇、真格基金创始人徐小平、以及陌陌科技创始人唐岩、拉勾网创始人许单单、51信用卡创始人孙海涛、以及皇包车旅行创始人孟雷、皇包车旅行CEO潘飞。
1年前，小黄车ofo创始人戴威还是那个“仅27岁，3年狂揽138亿！”的神一般的存在；而仅仅数个月后，等待他的是无数小黄车的“尸体”，和1000多万追讨押金的用户。
“相声艺术家”罗永浩的创业路更加举步维艰。在外界印象中，锤子每隔几月便要“破产”一回，好似一直在“要完蛋”的边缘挣扎。提到梦想，罗永浩说“不被嘲笑的愿望是不值得去实现的”；而回到现实，他轻轻摇头，“随时发不出工资、随时倒闭、随时被债主围楼……那个时候是想过自杀的。”
“集才华与美貌于一身”的papi坦言创业中风向变得太快。她“开挂”的时候，曾凭借原创短视频迅速蹿红网络，风头无两，人称“网红第一人”。而几个月后，被逻辑思维撤资的papi登上吐槽大会，新闻标题明晃晃四个字：“过气艺人”。
话题性和争议性并存的创投江湖，在这部电影中为我们展开了一角。电影用一年多的时间记录了创业者们生活中的点点滴滴——梦想与希望、压力与焦灼、高光时刻与至暗时刻。
他们可能上一秒风光无限，下一秒四面楚歌；
他们可能晚上只睡两个小时，早上起来还要先为别人加油打气；
他们可能人前被无数镁光灯簇拥，回家后却连孩子都不愿给自己一个拥抱……
十四条故事线展开，组成人们心底对生活的追问。创业者们不再是新闻那头的“神话故事”，而是有血有肉的人，“是这个时代想要改变命运的年轻人的缩影”。
“燃点”能照映观众心中的火光，如电影所宣传那样，用新时代佼佼者们的真实经历为更多的年轻人指点迷津吗？
我们拭目以待。
If you are creating a business and face the possibility of failure, would you be willing to record your real-time story on camera and share it with the public?
The stories of 14 Chinese entrepreneurs who did so will hit the big screen on January 11.
“Startups,” shot continuously for more than one year, is the first documentary recording the experiences of some of China's well-known entrepreneurs, including Luo Yonghao, founder of smartphone startup Smartisan, and Dai Wei, founder of bike-sharing company ofo.
China has developed fast in the past 40 years of reform and opening-up, and in the Internet era, it has grown even faster. Entrepreneurs bear massive pressure and struggle to survive amid fierce competition. But difficulties cannot defeat them; they persistently pursue their dreams in a hope of changing a particular industry and even changing international business patterns.
“In the war-free time, entrepreneurs are those who deserve most respect,” said Guan Xiu, the documentary's director, in the film's trailer.
Guan is also the director of the sensational three-season reality show “Win in China” which debuted in 2006 and its follow-up “I Am the Founder,” both focusing on China's entrepreneurs. And as she herself is the founder of a culture company, she has strong resonance with and profound knowledge of entrepreneurship.
That's why she wanted to make the documentary. “The biggest charm of the documentary is that what it records cannot recur and be repeated,” said Guan. “Although there are many ways to record the process of starting a business, I think the way needed most is to record truth.”
In what Guan called the “precious moments of our time,” we will see the ups and downs of the lives of those who have courage.
Luo Yonghao, a popular former English teacher, founder of an English training institution and online celebrity, turned to a completely new industry in 2012, hoping to make user-experience-oriented smartphones. Since the introduction of his first product Smartisan T1 in 2014, he received mixed reviews about the phone's quality and organized an eye-catching online debate against his critic, but continuously produced a series of new smartphones.
When he took a role in the documentary in 2017, his smartphone company had withstood the loss of senior executives, dead stock and unpaid salary arrears and gained the success of selling one million newly-debut smartphones and achieving one billion yuan financing. During the filming, the struggling Luo and his company were under the constant pressure of public opinion.
He is not alone in the hard road.
Peking University student Dai Wei called on his schoolmates to share bicycles on the campus in 2014 and developed it into a gigantic business across the globe. His bike-sharing company ofo once attracted billions of yuan in investment and served 200 million users, faced lawsuits of unpaid bills and questions of its delay of deposit refund.
Dai, once honored as one of the 40 under 40s list by business magazine Fortune's Chinese edition, was put on a luxury-spending blacklist by a Beijing court in December.
Besides Luo and Dai, the documentary records other prominent figures, including Fu Sheng, founder of mobile Internet giant Cheetah Mobile; Jin Xing, founder of Soyoung, a leading online e-commerce and social media platform on cosmetic procedures; Xu Xiaoping, founder of Zhen Fund, and Papi, or Jiang Yilei, famous video blogger and founder of video-sharing platform Papitube, and Zhang Ying, founding managing partner of Matrix Partners China, also the investor of the documentary.
At the film's premiere on Wednesday, director Guan Xiu said, “Starting a business is a thing that has no ending. The story continues, and you never know what's next.”
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