Jack Ma co-founded and led the successful Alibaba Group, which he started in 1999. Some key points: - He developed an interest in English at a young age and would practice the language with foreigners for free. - After discovering the internet in 1995, he founded an internet company called China Yellow Pages, which made $800,000 in three years. - In 1999, he quit his job to found Alibaba with 17 friends, raising $800,000 in capital. Alibaba grew to serve over 79 million members worldwide. - Under his leadership, Alibaba had a record-breaking $25 billion IPO in 2014, becoming the largest in U.S. history.

1. Co-founding and leading Alibaba Group
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2. Jack Ma (Ma Yun) Biography
 Name: Jack Ma (Chinese Name: Ma Yun)
 Born : 15th October 1964
 Country : China
 Founder : Alibaba Group
 Net Worth : $49 billion
 Position : Executive Chairman of Alibaba
Group

3. Beginning to Success
 At an early age, Jack Ma developed a
desire to learn English so he rode his
bike each morning in order to go to a
nearby hotel and converse with
foreigners.
 He would guide them around the
city for free in order to practice and
improve his English.

4. Beginning to Success
 He did this for nine years.
 He became pen pals with one of
these foreigners who gave him the
name "Jack", because his real
Chinese name was too difficult for
him to pronounce.

5. Beginning to Success
 At first he started building websites for
Chinese companies with the help of
friends in the US.
 He encountered a computer for the first
time at the age of thirty-three.
 He has said that “The day we got
connected to the web, I invited friends and
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 loaded. We
drank, watched TV and played cards
waiting, but I was so proud. I proved (to my
house guests that) the Internet existed.”

6. Career
 In 1994, Ma heard about the Internet.
 In early 2000, he went to the US and
with his friends help he got introduced to
the Internet
 During his first encounter he searched
the word "beer".
 Further, he tried to search for general
information about China and again was
surprised.

7. Career
 So he and his friend created an “ugly”
(as said by Ma) website related to China.
 Within five hours of creating the website
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.

8. Alibaba
 In April 1995, Ma, his wife and a
friend collected twenty thousand
dollars and started an Internet
company.
 Their company was dedicated to
creating websites for other
companies.
 He named their company "China
Yellow Pages” and within three
years, his company had made
U$800,000.

9. Alibaba
 From 1998 to 1999, Ma headed an information technology company
established by Government
 In 1999, he decided to quit and went back to Hangzhou with his team in
order to find Alibaba with a group of 17 friends.
 He started a new round of venture development with US $800,000.
 Alibaba is a China-based B-2-B(Business to Business) marketplace site
which currently serves more than 79 million members from more than
240 countries and territories.

10. Alibaba Group
 Ma wanted to improve the global e-
commerce system and from 2003 he
founded (Taobao, Alipay, Ali Mama
and Lynx).
 After the rapid rise of Taobao, eBay
offered to purchase the company
but Ma rejected their offer, instead
garnering support from Yahoo $1
billion investment.

11. Alibaba Group
 In September 2014 it was reported
Alibaba raised $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.

12. Rewards
 In October 1999 and January 2000,
Alibaba twice won a total of a $25
million international venture capital
investment.
 The program was expected to
improve the domestic e- commerce
market and to create a perfect e-
commerce platform for Chinese
enterprises, especially SME.
 In 2004, he was chosen “Top 10
Business Leaders of the Year”.

13. Rewards
 In 2005, Ma was selected by the
World Economic Forum as a “Young
Global Leader”.
 In 2007 He was selected by Business
week as a “Businessperson of the
Year”.
 In 2008 one of the 30 “World’s Best
CEOs” by Barrons .
 In May 2009, Ma was honored by
Time magazine with inclusion into
the Time 100 list of the world’s 100
most influential people.

14. Thankyou