Thursday 8 May 2014

Jack Ma: English teacher turned Internet visionary

SINO DAILY
Jack Ma: English teacher turned Internet visionary
Shanghai (AFP) May 07, 2014 - After being knocked back by US venture capitalists in 1999, cash-strapped Chinese entrepreneur Jack Ma persuaded friends to give him $60,000 to start an e-commerce firm called Alibaba. Fifteen years later the company is an Internet giant and Ma, a former English teacher, is among the topmost ranks of China's super-rich with wealth estimated at $8.4 billion by Forbes magazine. On Tuesday, ... more


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