Still, some people tried to instill the idea that joining a franchise downline is entrepreneurship. I said I would never accept it, but he just wouldn't give up. I asked him in return whether the world's largest chain supermarket was franchised? Moreover, is it a relationship between upline and downline like yours? He couldn't answer, and I realized he hadn't read a single book about global business strategies. How dare an ignorant person teach me a lesson. I have always insisted that starting a business is not the same as joining a pyramid scheme.
As we continued, he became more absurd, saying that selling things on Taobao is equivalent to joining Taobao, and the products sold are also franchised. I had a lot of questions about this. The number of sellers on Taobao has grown from 3000 to approximately 8 million today, and no one has ever said they are franchised by Taobao or are its downlines. Their business models include agency, consignment, distribution, etc. I think very few people would say they joined something or became someone's downline, right?
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