Jack Ma is a Chinese business magnate and philanthropist who is the founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group, a global technology conglomerate. He struggled in his youth, failing college entrance exams multiple times and getting rejected from many jobs, but persevered. In 1999, he founded Alibaba in his apartment with 18 friends. Under his leadership, Alibaba has grown to become one of the largest e-commerce companies in the world. Throughout his career, Jack Ma has faced many failures and rejections but overcome them through resolve, hard work, and vision to build a multibillion-dollar global technology giant.

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6. Born
He has an older brother and a younger sister Ma ,Jack Ma, is a
Chinese business magnate, philosopher, philanthropist, internet and
technology entrepreneur, who is the founder and executive chairman
of Alibaba Group, a conglomerate of Internet-based businesses.

7. • Mother
Cui Wencai
• Father
Ma Laifa

8. WIFEWIFE
Cathy Zhāng Yīng
• Jack Ma is married to Zhang Ying. They have a son and a daughter.
• Ma met his wife when they were studying at Hangzhou Normal University.
They married shortly after graduating in the late 1980s. Both began
working as teachers.

9. Son Daughter
Ma Yuankun, Ma Yuanbao

10. • EducationEducation
Ma struggled to attend college. The Chinese entrance exams are held only once
a year and it took Ma four years to pass. After that, Ma attended Hangzhou
Teacher’s Institute (currently known as Hangzhou Normal University) and
graduated in 1988 with a B.A. in English. While at school, Ma was the head of
student council. After graduation, he became a lecturer of English and
International Trade at Hangzhou Dianzi University. He later enrolled at Beijing-
based Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) and graduated in
2006.

11. Early life
• Ma was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. Ma started
to study English at a young age and practiced English daily by
conversing with English-speakers at Hangzhou hotel, a 40 minute
bike ride from his home. He would give them tours around the city
for free to improve his English. He did this for nine years. He
became pen pals with one of those foreigners, who nicknamed
him "Jack" because he found it hard to pronounce his Chinese
name.
• Later in his youth, Ma struggled to attend college.
Jack Ma’s background, education and path to success,
they are failure, rejection, fighting, resolve, hard work,
agility and vision. All throughout Jack Ma’s life, from
childhood till building a multibillion-dollar global
ecommerce technology giant, he has failed many times,

13. Jack Ma applied for 30 different jobs and got rejected by all.
they said, 'you're no good,'" Ma told I even went to KFC when
it came to my city. Twenty-four people went for the job.
Twenty-three were accepted. I was the only guy.

14.  In 1994, Ma heard about the Internet.
 In 1995, he went to the US with his friends & they helped him to introduced the Internet.
 During his first encounter he searched the word "beer". Although he found information
related to beer from many countries, he was surprised to find none from China.
 Further, he tried to search for general information about China and again was surprised to
find none.
 So he and his friend created an "ugly" website related to China.
 He launched the website at 9:40 AM.
 And 12:30 PM he had received emails from some Chinese wishing to know about him. This
is when Ma realized that the Internet had something great to offer.

15. • In April 1995, Ma, Collected USD 20,000, and started their first company.
• Their company was dedicated to creating websites for companies. He named their company
"China Yellow Pages.".
three years, later made 5,000,000 Yuan.

16. • Ma began building websites for Chinese companies with the help of friends in the US.
• He has said that "the day we got connected to the Web, I invited friends and TV people over
to my house," and on a very slow dial-up connection,
• "we waited three and a half hours and got half a page.... We drank, watched TV and played
cards, waiting. But I was so proud. I proved (to my guests that) the Internet existed.(At a
conference in 2010, Ma revealed that he has never actually written a line of code nor made
one sale to a customer. He acquired a computer for the first time at the age of 33.

17. • From 1998 to 1999, Ma headed an information technology company established by the China
International Electronic Commerce Center.
• A department of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation.
• In 1999, he quit and returned to Hangzhou with his team to found Alibaba, a China-based business-to-
business marketplace site in his apartment with a group of 18 friends. He started a new round of venture
development with 500,000 yuan.
• In October 1999 and January 2000, Alibaba twice won a total of a $25 million foreign venture capital
investment. The program was expected to improve the domestic e-commerce market and perfect an e-
commerce platform for Chinese enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), to
address World Trade Organization (WTO) challenges.
• Ma wanted to improve the global e-commerce system and from 2003 he founded Taobao
Marketplace, Alipay, Ali Mama and Lynx.
• After the rapid rise of Taobao, eBay offered to purchase the company. However, Ma rejected their offer,
instead garnering support from Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang with a $1 billion investment.

18. • Alibaba became one of the most valuable tech companies in the world after raising $25 billion, the largest
initial public offering in US financial history.
• Ma now serves as executive chairman of Alibaba Group.
Which is a holding company with nine major subsidiaries:
• Alibaba.com,
• Taobao Marketplace.
• Tmall.
• eTao,
• Alibaba Cloud Computing,
• Juhuasuan,
• 1688.com,
• AliExpress.com
• Alipay.

20. Accomplishments
 In 2004, China Central Television and its viewers selected Ma as one of the "Top 10 Business Leaders of the Year".
 In Sep 2005, World Economic Forum selected Ma as a "Young Global Leader“
 Fortune Magazine also selected him as one of the "25 Most Powerful Businessperson in Asia". Businessweek also selected
him as a "Businessperson of the Year" in 2007,
 Barron's chose him as one of the 30 "World’s Best CEOs" in 2008.
 In May 2009, Time magazine selected Ma as one of the world’s 100 most powerful people.
 Forbes China also selected him as one of the Top 10 Most Respected Entrepreneurs in China by in 2009.
 Ma received the 2009 CCTV Economic Person of the Year: Business Leaders of the Decade Award.
 ownership dispute was resolved by Alibaba Group, Yahoo! and Softbank in July 2011.[25]
 Ma was awarded an honorary doctoral degree by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in November 2013.
 Ma is a board member of Japan’s SoftBank and China’s Huayi Brothers Media Corporation. He became a trustee of The
Nature Conservancy’s China program in 2009 and joined its global board of directors in April 2010. In 2013, he became
chairman of the board for The Nature Conservancy's China Program; this was one day after he stepped down from Alibaba as
company CEO.
 In 2014, he was ranked as the 30th most powerful person in the world in an annual ranking published by Forbes.
 In 2015, Asian Award honored him the Entrepreneur of the Year award.

22. • In 2017, Jack Ma entered the acting industry with his
first kung fu short film Gong Shou Dao which stems from
his lifelong love of martial arts that has influenced both
his professional life and personal life, it marks another
step in his ongoing effort to revitalize the ancient
practice and taking it globally. The film features
famous martial arts movie stars including Donnie
Yen, Jet Li, Wu Jing and Tony Jaa, and was filmed in
collaboration with the Double 11 Shopping
Carnival Singles' Day. In the same year, he has also
participated in singing festival, as well as performing
bizarre dances during Alibaba’s 18th anniversary party,
showcasing his entertainment value.

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