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JACK MA – FROM RAGS TO RICHES

JACK MA
Jack Ma was born on September 10, 1964 and is now the
founder and executive chairman of Ali Baba group. He is
the wealthiest businessman in asian region and he has raked in nearly 45 US dollars as his wealth

EARLY LIFE
This global icon was born in Hangzhou, Zhegiang province,
China. In his initial years he had difficulties in
attending the collage as the entrance exams in China are
held only once in the year and Ma was able to pass after
four years. After that Ma graduated in 1988 from Hangzhou
teachers institute with a BA in English. Ma became a
lecturer of English and Hangzhou Dieanzi University after
his graduation. He later graduated from Cheung Kong School
of business in 2006 from Beijing.

CAREER
Jack Ma was almost rejected from 30 different jobs. Also
he applied 10 times for Harvard and got rejected. Ma and
his wife along with a friend went around to collect USD
20,000 and then accomplished their first company. Their
company used to create websites for other companies. He
gave the name “China Yellow Pages” to the company. Within
a time span of three years he made USD 8 lakh.

At the age of 33 he acquired his first computer. Ma then headed
towards an IT company established by China International
Electronic Commerce center in 1998 and 1999.Then he quit
the job and returned back to the team in Hangzhou and
found Ali Baba which was a business to business market
place site. He started a new venture with 5 lakh Yuan. Ali
Baba won a total of 25 million dollars foreign venture
capital investment in October 1999 and January 2000.

In 2003 Ma founded Taobao market place, Ali pay, Ali mama and
lynx. It was reported that Ali Baba has raised 25 million
dollars in an initial public offering on the New York
stock exchange in September 2014.The Ali Baba group holds
9 major subsidiaries –Ali Baba .com,Taobao market place,T
mall ,Etao,Ali Baba cloud computing,Juhuasuan,1688.com,Ali
express.com and Ali pay.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Great awards has been bestowed upon Jack Ma from a number
of magazines, Associations, and even Governments of
various countriers and cities. global young leader, most
influential entrepreneur, powerful person top 10 etc.
he has garnered great respect among his competitors and
friends alike. many universities had also awarded him

PERSONAL LIFE
Jack Ma has a son and a daughter from his marriage to
Zhangying, he met Zhangying at Hangzhou normal university
and married her in 1980’s. Ma had studied and practiced
Chen-style-Tai Chi Chuan, a Chinese martial arts form. In
2009 he studied with Wang Xian who was a well-known
martial arts master. He hired various Taichi players to
teach at Ali Baba. Wang, JetLi and Ma used to teach Taichi
to employees at Ali Baba.According to Ma’s assistant hiss
vision is that someday people will remember him as a
Taichi master, rather that only as the founder of China’s
largest internet company and online shopping website.

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