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Jack Ma's success story

A man who started from only $12 and became the richest man in China

By Samara BenPublished 4 years ago 4 min read
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Today we present to you the success story of the Chinese businessman Jack Ma, the owner of the online shopping website Alibaba.

Awesome story One of the most beautiful, real, wonderful short stories that give hope to the souls and the ability to struggle to achieve success, and start from scratch.

Jack Ma was not an outstanding student in his academic life. He failed twice to obtain admission to the university, which he later described as the worst university in his country. However, this did not prevent him from developing his English language by dealing with foreign tourists in hotels and others, until he was able to At the end of entering the university and graduating from it as a professor of English, he worked at the beginning of his life as a teacher with a salary of 12 dollars, and his dream was to work in commerce.

After graduating from university, Ali submitted an application to immigrate to America and was rejected 16 times. In one of his attempts to find a job, he applied for a cleaner in a Kentucky restaurant, but he was the only one who was rejected out of 30 people applying for the job. Jack Ma reached bankruptcy, so he advanced to the police and was executed Accepting 14 people, except for him and another 82-year-old person.

When Jack Ma reached total bankruptcy, a crazy idea flashed in his head, which is to compete with Amazon and eBay, the most powerful shopping sites in the world.

During one of his trips to Seattle, Jack Ma, one of his friends, found what was known at the time as the World Wide Web. He searched for the word “beer” and did not find any results from China. Therefore, when he returned to China, he created China Pages, which later became known as Ali Baba. While Jack Ma was sitting in a San Francisco café, one of the waitresses asked, "What comes to your mind when you hear the name Ali Baba?" She replied, "Open Sesame." Here Jack shouted, "This is exactly the name I'm looking for."

Jack Ma was not at all proficient in the field of technology, although he founded one of the largest technology companies in the world, but he only knew how to send and receive emails and surf the Internet through his personal computer, and he spent most of his time learning traditional Chinese medicine And playing poker.. After 11 years of continuous work and diligence, the site of Ali Baba on the throne of the largest market on the Web, and its capital reached 29 billion dollars.

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Today, look at one of the world’s entrepreneurs who came from a country that now represents the next economic giant that has begun to sit on the throne of money and the economy of China. Looking at most, if not all, entrepreneurs and money in the world, you will find that each of them has a philosophy that runs his life and his empire on it, and it was Our character today is one of those and he founded one of the most important and largest e-commerce companies, which is Jack Ma. Who is this pioneer?

His name is Jack Ma and his birthplace was in Hangzhou, which is located in the state of Zhejiang in China, and his birth was in 1964. Jack Ma has been interested since the beginning of his life in learning the English language and on his way to achieving his goal, he goes to a hotel not far from his home to work as a guide for tourists for free Just so he can practice and upgrade his English and already in 1988 Jack Ma graduated from Hangzhou Normal College with a BA in English and worked as a teacher of English and international trade at Hangzhou Dianzi University.

Jack Ma was on a visit to the United States of America, and there he first became acquainted with what is known as the Internet, and he liked it from the first time, and here he found that what is related to China does not appear in the searches, so the idea began to crystallize in his head, as he tried to establish the first Internet company in China, and that was in 1995.

Jack Ma failed at first, but he did not give up and returned the ball more than once until he founded the Alibaba website, where products are published, where customers can buy products directly from the site. The site attracted many customers in less than a year, and since 1999 investment companies have entered the site, and in 2005 Yahoo invested in the company.

Alibaba is now considered the largest selling site on the Internet, with more than 79 million members and providing its services in more than 240 countries. Yuan, and the situation was not limited to just one site, but over the years it launched several sites that formed the Alibaba Group of Companies, which is under the management of Jack Ma, where he was the CEO of the company, and his fortune, in his fifty-first year, reached about 21 billion dollars. 33 billion dollars, thus entering the club of the world’s top billionaires, and the company controls more than 70% of e-commerce.

Jack Ma’s life was not limited to money and business, but also married and gave birth to a boy and a girl. He also has interests in the environment and education. Through the Alibaba Foundation, he made a donation to work to fund initiatives to protect the environment and develop medicine and education. He also worked to establish a charitable foundation to protect the environment in China.

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About the Creator

Samara Ben

Cooking, Beauty, hair and culture writer. One of Most Influential People in the Multicultural Market.

www.foodzza.com

I am a Creative Writing major I was focused on writing fiction. I have a great passion for writing.

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