3. Basic Information
● Born October 15, 1964
● Grew up poor in South China in town
called Hangzou
● Scrawny - got into a lot of fights
● Wasn’t afraid to fight kids bigger than him
● Enjoyed collecting crickets & making them
fight
4. The Struggles
● Offered tours to visitors in exchange for english
lessons
● Someone on one of his tours gave him the name
Jack
● Rejected from Harvard 5 times
● Rejected from KFC
o Only earned $12 from his first job
● Hates being rich
5.
6. Jack Ma talks about the company's initial public
offering and business strategy.
7. What he’s up to now
● Helped Washington farmers sell 300 tons of cherries last year.
o 80,000 families ordered cherries and sold all within 48 hours
● He recently developed an interest in environmentalism and is now on the global board of the
Nature Conservancy
8. “My job is making money, helping other people make
money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more
people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money,
right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is
a headache.”
