アリババ、タオパオの創設者、馬雲（ジャック・マー）の生い立ちと成功の秘訣

Online shopping is now very popular in China.

 The most well-known and largest site is Taobao. What kind of person is "Jack Ma" [English name: Jack Ma] who spread "Ceramic treasure" to the market of 1.3 billion people?

As a child, he was a
naughty child and often quarreled. All for friends. I have never done it for myself. It must have been a strong sense of justice. At one point, I was injured in a fight and sewed 13 stitches.

It may be the influence of his father. His father was always stressed and exploding because he wasn't blessed.

Growing up in such a situation, he liked to be with friends outside rather than at home. Rather than normal grades, he was more annoyed by parents and teachers.

In China, he can choose a school from elementary school based on his grades, but he has always been a third-class or lower school. He laughs, "I failed the high school exam twice."

However, I was good at English only. I was blessed with a good teacher, and every time my father got angry, he said back in English that he didn't understand. At the age of 13, I was having a normal conversation with a foreigner I met in the city.

I took the university entrance exam, my math grades were too bad, and I failed again. One day he picks up a book called "Life" at the station. This book made him think that he had to go to college because he hated studying.

In 1984, he passed the foreign language English department of Hangzhou Normal University for the third time. Actually, he did not reach the passing score of 5 points at this time, but fortunately there is an anecdote that he was able to enroll because the capacity was broken.

After graduating from university, while working as an English teacher at Hangzhou Electronics Technology University [Hangzhou Electronics Technology University], he started a translation company with a friend in 1991. `Kaihiro Translation Company'[Named from the pronunciation of HOPE in English]

However, in the first month, the income is 700 yuan and the tenant fee is 2000 yuan. Start in the red. As his companions felt impatient, he didn't move, saying, "If you don't give up, you'll definitely see the future."

At the same time, he goes far away, buys and sells gift items and fresh flowers, and manages to get the translation company on track. In this way, it became the largest translation company in Hangzhou and Zhejiang province in two years.

Inspired by the internet social networks
, he first heard the term social networks around the end of 1994. Then, in 1995, the following year, he came into contact with social networks for the first time in the United States as an interpreter.

Originally not good at personal computers, he was scared to use the internet at his friend's house. I thought it would be difficult if I accidentally touched it and broke my computer.

A friend teaches him the convenience of internet and SNS. At that time, there was no information about China on the internet. Intrigued, he asked me to create a home page for his translation company.

Unexpectedly, there was an immediate response, and I received four emails in three hours.

He thought, social networks would change the world. And I immediately thought about it.

`Let's create a site that collects corporate information in China, and send it to the world! '

At that time, he gained the position of chief at his school and was selected as one of the "10 Outstanding Youth Teachers in Hangzhou". But on his way, he decided to leave his position, position, and treatment at the university.

SNS was not known in China at that time. From a global perspective, it would have been around the beginning of fashion. For the first time in Beijing, it had just been connected to American SNS via optical communication.

He gathered 24 friends and talked for two hours. Listening to him, my friends didn't understand well. The person in question was also a messed up explanation.

As a result, 23 people terribly objected that it was impossible, unreasonable, and too risky, and only one person should try it, or if it doesn't, stop immediately. Said.

After thinking about it overnight, he will do it the next day! Even if all 24 people objected, he decided to do it.

He says:

`Why did you decide at that time? It wasn't that I was confident that SNS would succeed, but that I thought it was a kind of success that I would experience whether it succeeded or failed. If you don't do it, nothing will change. '

In this way, in April 1995, he and his wife and one friend raised 20,000 yuan [1 yuan at that time = about 10 yen]
and established the'Yellow Pages' company, for a company called'Chinese Yellow Pages'. I opened a specialized site for.

It is one of the first companies to start SNS in China.

Three months later, SNS was officially introduced in Shanghai, and orders increased sharply. At that time, it cost 20,000 yuan to create a 2000-character homepage in Chinese and English with a single photo. In less than three years, his company and site became more and more popular.

In
1997, he was invited by the national foreign trade policy to build an official trade-related website for small and medium-sized enterprises rather than large enterprises . Taking this opportunity, he, who was just one businessman in Hangzhou, changed his point of view. It is no longer a frog in the well.

Then, in 1999, he withdrew from the national policy and was founded for the second time. Start an IT business.

From his experience as a small business in Hangzhou, he decided to become a route for small and medium-sized enterprises, not for large enterprises.

A big company that gives up whales and catches shrimp is like a whale. SMEs are shrimp. Whales eat shrimp. Shrimp also live on the whale's spilled fish. They are dependent on each other. It's a business with 85 percent SMEs, not 15 percent large companies. When.

Large companies already have their own specialized information channels and can spend huge amounts of advertising money. But SMEs are not. They need SNS. I want to lead them and start an IT revolution.

He never grew up in a blessed family and was on the side of the common people. The sense of justice from an early age has not changed.

The'Alibaba'site was born. Thus, in September 1999, Alibaba Shushu was founded. The'Alibaba'site is born. Even small and medium-sized enterprises can easily connect to the world market and obtain trading opportunities.

The story of investment was approached. But he declined the offer of 38 companies that were considered risky, and a month later he got an investment of $ 5 million.

Large investment
This risky fund was first used for human resources investment.

As a result of attracting a large number of human resources from Hong Kong and the United States, all 12 executive positions have become foreign human resources except him. Furthermore, at the end of the year, we had a meeting with Softbank's grandson president.

He was surprised when he expected it to be a solo meeting. There were many people in the room. The schedule is a one-hour meeting. However, in the first 6 minutes or so, he gets a word from President Son, "Let's invest in your company."

In a single meeting that followed, neither side had a lawyer, and in just three minutes of business talks, he secured a $ 35 million investment from President Son.

However, a few days later, when it came time to sign a contract, he regrets it. $ 35 million is too much. 20 million dollars is enough. He thought, as long as you have the amount you need, not too much. And tell President Son,

"$ 20 million is enough. I'm betting, but it's in my hands. It's been the most $ 2 million so far. $ 20 million is enough. If you have more than that, you will not be able to realize its value and it will be disadvantageous to the company. "

While many talented entrepreneurs decide to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in just a short amount of time, he also thinks a lot about saving where he should.

2005 Acquired Yahoo China.
In 2007, he became a director of Softbank.
'Alibaba', which enables B2B [business-to-business] on the Internet and connects the market of 1.3 billion people with the world market, is now the largest B2B site in the world.

Introduced as No. 1 in the world IT business for 4 consecutive years by Forbes, a financial magazine in the United States. And the sites he launched, such as Taobao Tmall and Alipay Tmall, are well-known brands in China's IT business.

Online shopping is now very popular in China. The mainstream is Taobao, and the payment method is Alipay.

Entrepreneur and lecturer

 
Alibaba, founder of Taobao, Jack Ma. With experience as a teacher, he is very good at giving lectures.

He has given numerous lectures at Wharton School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Peking University, etc. The audience is drawn to his story, as if ironsand was attracted to a magnet.

Introducing the story of his childhood, his terrible grades, the hardships he had at the beginning of his founding, etc., while laughing at himself. Is it a grassroots hero?

Is his business in the golden age now that 540 million people with a population of 1.3 billion are using the Internet?