Jack Ma
10 September 1964 – present
Jack Ma is a Chinese business executive who co-founded the e-commerce group Alibaba. A former English teacher in Hangzhou, he started the company in his apartment in 1999 and built it into one of the world's largest online commerce and payments businesses before stepping down as its chairman in 2019.
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Life events
Ma Yun was born in Hangzhou, in eastern China.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe was admitted after two failed attempts at the national university entrance examination.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe worked as an English lecturer for several years and also ran a small translation agency.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgA visit to Seattle introduced him to the World Wide Web, after which he launched the directory business China Pages.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe started the business-to-business marketplace with seventeen other founders.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgTaobao was created to compete with eBay's operation in China and became Alibaba's largest platform.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe escrow-based payment system was created to support transactions on Taobao.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe handed the chief executive role to Jonathan Lu while remaining executive chairman.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe flotation was the largest initial public offering on record at the time.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe handed the chairmanship to Daniel Zhang on his fifty-fifth birthday and turned to philanthropy and education.
Source: en.wikipedia.org