personality Jack Ma , the tenacious founder of Alibaba and China’s most famous entrepreneur, has been key to the success of the company, one of the largest e-commerce giant and services line on the planet.
The steering charismatic, internationally known as Jack Ma and really called Ma Yun , 49, is much admired in his country for entrepreneurship with he formed his empire 15 years ago, and because it relied on private initiative and at the push of midsize Chinese companies, not state giant, to get it.
Ma was born on October 15 1964 in Hangzhou, capital of the eastern province of Zhejiang , the birthplace of China’s private sector since the 80s and since 1998 based Alibaba.com and all firms that formed after the Internet giant is the group today.
In his native city, 170 kilometers from Shanghai, graduated in 1988 as English teacher by Hangzhou Teachers Institute (now University local) Normal and served as such until 1995, when he founded China Yellow Pages, which many consider the first Chinese Internet company.
Among its members was his own wife, Zhang Ying, former companion of the Institute of Teachers, with whom he had married in the late eighties, and he accepted that, despite being named Ma and one of the 10 best young teachers in Hangzhou , both leave the job to devote himself to that new world of internet.
According to Zhang once said, menudo, bony Jack Ma, with spirit of determination, compelling and good storyteller , often by seem able to inspire and excite anyone, “is not a handsome man, but I fell for him because he can do many things that do handsome men.”
His charismatic oratorical skills and his understanding business as a manifestation of his own philosophy of life, he has become perhaps the most famous entrepreneur of China, whose books and records of leadership training are seldom absent in Chinese bookstores, should help you launch your business.
After several adventures with different signatures, also worked as a tour guide and employee at a restaurant in the American fast food chain McDonald’s , where, shortly after being fired, He went on to become one of the 18 founders of Alibaba.com, a portal for electronic commerce between companies.
Ma, who said years ago, during a meeting with journalists in Hangzhou, that if he had not been fired from McDonald’s have gone on to create his empire anyway, because I always believed that one should follow their dreams and not give up that makes them really knew little of computing in the nineties.
Yet saw the potential of the Internet and in 1998 brought together 17 partners to create the company , which over the next decade established himself as one of the largest e-commerce sites on the planet.
His son, now studying in the United States, and at that time he was six, soon became addicted to online games , just Ma and Zhang in 2002 asking him to sacrifice his place in the company to take better care.
Alibaba grew and consolidated under the command of Ma, who was beginning to appear on the covers of business magazines reference as ‘Forbes’ and ‘Nikkei’ or joined the Council Business Advisory Forum for Economic Cooperation Asia-Pacific (APEC), for which he organized summits in Hangzhou and surrounded himself with personalities like Bill Clinton.
also started putting a view to more attracting users in Latin America , with which entrepreneurs feels good feeling because “we are the same kind of animals,” he said in 2009.
After 14 years as head of the group, May 2013 withdrew from the front line to give the baton to younger managers, although Ma remains its CEO and participates with great influence in all major decisions.
“I see that young people have Alibaba best and brightest dreams than mine , and are better able to build a future that belongs to them, “said the announcement.
Since then the group does not has stopped moving: after retiring in 2012 from Alibaba.com Hong Kong Stock Exchange, which facilitated the exit on Wall Street, the conglomerate was restructured into 25 business units smaller to increase its “flexibility” to the was the mobile internet.
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