The founder of the Alibaba group Jack Ma wasn’t a techie person. He wasn’t good at mathematics, failed two times in high school, and got his first computer only at 33 years old. Jack Ma’s way to becoming the billionaire founder of one of the world’s biggest technology companies came through English.
The author of Ali Baba: The House That Jack Ma Built is Duncan Clark. He was a former Morgan Stanley investment banker and fluent Mandarin speaker. He traces Jack Ma’s story from his early days, through his first Internet venture, Chinapages.com, and then Alibaba.
Growing up in the Chinese province of Hangzhou, Jack Ma went to the Shangri-La hotel as a youngest just to speak with foreigners and improve his English. After few months he became fluent in the language. Jack Ma got his first job as an English teacher at the age of 24. He worked at the Hangzhou Institute Dianzi University with a $12 salary for month.
For an assignment, Ma travelled to America, in 1995. He was introduced to the world of the Internet. First he typed in a search query for “beer”.
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But it is well to know that rejections are also with Jack Ma. We can’t believe but this successful business man the number of times this man has been rejected and failed. In his early childhood he failed twice in his primary school exams. He failed thrice in his school exams. After his high school he failed thrice the entrance exam to university. Finally, he joined Hangzhou normal University. He also applied and wrote several times to Harvard university but rejected all. If you think this only in his education, no. During and after bachelor he tried and failed to get a good job. He was rejected multitude of places. Once he said “When KFC came to China, 24 people went for the job. Twenty-three people were accepted. I was the only guy who wasn’t.” He also one of the 5 applicants to a job in Police force and was the only one getting rejected after being told, “No, you’re no