Text: Li Bai is not free
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preface
The news that Jack Ma is teaching in Tokyo, Japan, has once again attracted everyone's attention.
Jack Ma should also be considered a household name, and Taobao was founded by him.
Speaking of Taobao, I am afraid that basically everyone will have this orange software in their mobile phones.
Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba Group behind Taobao, has been out of sight for a long time.
From a powerful business tycoon to an ordinary life after retirement, what is behind this change?
And Musk of Tesla in the United States is also curious, where did Jack Ma go?
After leaving office, did such a legendary figure enter a comfortable retirement life? This makes us wonder.
The birth of a business man
Looking back at Jack Ma's resume, Ma Yun has been a difficult learner since he was a child.
He bought a pocket radio when he was 12 years old, listened to a lot of English radio by chance, and has loved English ever since.
Ma Yun is indeed very talented in English, and when he works as a tour guide for foreigners, he not only makes his English better and better, but also gets the love of foreign friends.
Ma Yun liked to fight at the age of 13, so he changed schools because of many fights, and was admitted to high school after two middle school entrance examinations.
Jack Ma's high school experience is very tortuous, which can be described as a good thing and a lot of grinding.
He did poorly in the first college entrance examination mathematics test, only scoring 1 point.
Jack Ma went to apply for a waiter, and he encountered Waterloo again, just because he looked ugly.
His father found him a job, but at work, he gained new experience and understanding.
He was determined to try again, and he was going to college.
The second time Ma took the college entrance examination was in 1983, this time, like the last time, the mathematics was still very poor, but it still improved, improving to 19 points, and the total separation admission line was still 140 points behind.
Jack Ma, a partial entrepreneur.
When the grades came out, his parents told him to stop thinking about going to college and find a job to learn technology.
He began to shuttle the streets of Hangzhou again, and the difficulties of life made him suffer a lot.
Ma Yun regrouped again and began to prepare for the third college entrance examination.
The people around them did not support it, and they all persuaded them not to waste their efforts and go to work.
So he went to work while studying, the hardship at the moment can only be experienced by Ma Yun at that time, only with his diligence to prepare for the college entrance examination again, there will be hope for college.
Only knowledge can change destiny, and for Ma Yun, only going to college can save his life, and like Yu Minhong, the boss of New Oriental, he must continue to study after experiencing setbacks.
Taking the college entrance examination for the third time (1984), this time Ma Yun's mathematical progress was even greater.
Progress of several ten, such progress is key for Ma Yun, but there is still a little gap from the undergraduate line.
But three things, it was also Jack Ma's luck, otherwise Tai Tailai, he was finally admitted in the third college entrance examination.
The admitted school is Hangzhou Normal University, and the major is English, which is another opportunity for Ma Yun, and he once again seized this rare opportunity.
Because he no longer has to study mathematics, and English is his strength, he has become a good student with excellent character and learning in college.
Since then, Ma Yun's luck seems to have opened, and his results have steadily ranked in the top five of the foreign language department.
After graduating, Jack Ma was assigned to teach English at a school due to his work.
He works well, is conscientious and responsible, and has won some honors in his position.
Ma Yun did not choose to continue to shine in the field of teaching, he wanted to do his own business, considering his professional and expertise, according to the market supply and demand, decided to do translation entrepreneurship.
At the same time, more and more people came to Ma Yun for help, and he couldn't be busy alone.
Ma Yun saw the opportunity and carried out his first venture: Haibo Translation Agency.
As for why he started a translation agency, Ma Yun saw a potential opportunity, the market needs a large number of translators, and he lacks skills, there is still a big gap, plus there is no professional translation agency in the local area.
Starting a business is always difficult, and the first monthly income is only 700 yuan, which is far from enough for the rent of the house.
In this way, opening a translation agency is a completely loss-making transaction, and everyone persuades Ma Yun to give up, including Ma Yun's partners, who also feel that the translation agency has any future.
Ma Yun felt that it was only a matter of time before the translation agency would develop, so he began to sell small commodities to maintain the operation of the translation agency, running around, experiencing countless humiliations and white eyes, but selling small commodities was much more profitable than opening a translation agency.
Ma Yun's colleagues are also puzzled by him, why not shut down the translation agency and open a commodity company?
Ma Yun said: "The purpose of starting a business is to better meet the needs of the market and help teachers solve economic problems, so we must maintain the translation agency, and it will definitely stick to the day of rise."
Time will tell. In the three years that the translation agency still did not make money, Ma Yun maintained the translation agency by selling small goods.
1995 was an unusual year for Jack Ma.
He saw the convenience and potential of the Internet. This also starts with the construction of the highway in Hangzhou.
American investment companies were involved in the high-speed repair project, but after a year, the investment money was still not paid.
Because Ma Yun is the best English person in Hangzhou, he was sent to the United States by the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Communications to collect debts.
After Ma Yun arrived in the United States, he found that it was simply a scam, and even threatened Ma Yun into joining the group.
Ma Yun did not agree and was restricted by the leather bag company.
Ma Yun tried his best, and finally had to pretend to agree to cooperate and win the opportunity to leave.
He had already arrived at the airport, but remembered that his domestic colleagues said that his son-in-law had opened an Internet company in Seattle, and felt that it was too embarrassing to buy a ticket to return to China, and decided to learn about the Internet and try his luck.
At the company of his colleague's son-in-law in Seattle, Ma learned about this emerging industry: the Internet.
The first time he went online was to advertise his translation agency, and in just two hours, he received several intentional emails from different countries and regions, which they said was the first website about China.
After returning to China, he was devoted to the Internet industry and planned to open up the Internet hotspot in China, so he started a business and opened China's first Internet company.
Although he made a series of websites, he was still not satisfied with this.
The prospects for the development of the Chinese yellow pages were not good, and by 97, Ma Yun resolutely decided to sell it.
Ma Yun chose to return to Hangzhou in 1999, still choosing the Internet industry, he felt that the Internet would definitely be a trend, so he developed Alibaba's website.
Since then, Jack Ma's road to becoming a god has officially begun.
Where entrepreneurship is smooth sailing, the initial start-up capital is difficult to come together, Ma Yun set a rule for his team members, must save it themselves, can not ask relatives and friends to borrow.
He knows that entrepreneurship is like a ship in the sea, and it is easy to be beaten in the sea by the wind and waves.
They put all their hearts and souls into Alibaba, and Alibaba has experienced too much and too much, but each time although it was knocked down, every time it also climbed up, and continued to fight, jumping higher again.
With the establishment of Taobao and the third-party online payment platform Alipay, the group has become larger and larger, its business has become more and more extensive, its popularity has skyrocketed domestically and even internationally, and it has achieved a leading position in the industry, which is a historic achievement.
The Internet industry is that outlet, and Jack Ma's Alibaba is not the pig, but the golden scale that turns into a dragon when it encounters a storm.
Ma Yun has experienced ups and downs, done many professions, also done manual work, and experienced three entrepreneurship, which has also created Ma Yun now.
At present, the mobile digital payment software Alipay we can see, as well as the Internet shopping software Taobao, were created by Alibaba, leading the development of the Internet era.
Jack Ma is a legendary figure in the business world.
His vision and thinking are ahead of others, and because of this, his success cannot be replicated, and he is a big name in China's Internet industry.
Obsessed with martial arts
In 2021, Jack Ma ranked 5th on the Forbes Chinese mainland Rich List with 267.3 billion yuan.
Such a super rich man has the same hobbies as us.
He loves martial arts culture, and extends his obsession with martial arts heroes in Jin Yong's martial arts novels to the level of company culture, requiring every Alibaba employee to have their own "flower name".
Jack Ma is passionate about tai chi, and for this reason also made a kung fu film called "Gong Shou Dao", which was broadcast exclusively on Youku on November 12, 2017.
The film tells the story of Ma Yun, a middle-aged man who does not look amazing, when passing through the gate of the "Huashan Faction", his brain makes up the story of passing five levels and cutting six generals to win the secret of martial arts.
Bloodthirsty capitalists?
Just a few days ago, Ant Group was fined sky-high and demanded to close Mutual Treasure.
Ant Group believes that everyone is no stranger, and financial products such as Huabei and borrowing have played a huge role in our lives.
Huabei is an old acquaintance in our lives, and most of today's young people have to rely on him to live, and the term mutual treasure may be familiar to some people, but some people only know its name and do not know its role.
Mutual treasure is a serious illness mutual aid program under Alibaba Group, speaking of which, everyone understands that this thing is not just a thing with water drops.
The same thing, but the drop chip can be listed, but why should the mutual treasure be shut down?
This is another trap set by capitalists for money, this is a kind of fund-raising behavior.
Everyone's money is not much, but with so many users across the country, it will become a lot, and the insured will need more and more funds for the disease over time, which will cause a crash.
The capitalists do not think about the people, they only worry about their own interests.
Moving to Japan?
What kind of life did Jack Ma live after retirement? Moving to another industry? Or completely stop and live in seclusion with money that you can't spend in this life?
Recently, Ma Yun appeared in the classroom of the University of Tokyo, where he taught.
It seems that I have returned to the work of the teacher I first graduated, and this time I am no longer teaching English, but what I feel about innovation and entrepreneurship.
Perhaps no one could have imagined that he would appear in people's sight in such a way, and perhaps, returning to the teaching profession again is what Ma Yun wants to do at this time.
Everyone is wondering why Jack Ma chose to move to Japan, but in fact, there are years of accumulation behind this.
Alibaba Group and Japan's SoftBank Group have long forged a deep relationship at the beginning of development, and Son has invested $20 million to earn $72 billion.
Mr. Ma is friends with SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son, who was previously a board member of Alibaba Group and is a third-generation Korean-Japanese.
It was Son's investment that put Alibaba on the road to expansion.
It can be said that without Son Masayoshi, it is difficult to say whether Ma Yun can become the world-famous Ma Yun.
Business sources say that Ma's current residence is a luxury villa donated by Son, located in Hakone, near Tokyo.
Due to the increasing number of wealthy Chinese living in Tokyo, it has become a low-key, luxurious social center, and the wealthy Chinese who have stayed or settled in Tokyo for a long time often use it as their main base of activity.
Japan's diet and climate are still relatively close to China, which may also be a factor in Ma's choice.
Ma Yun does not care about the attention of the outside world, and insists on his ideals and ambitions.
Jack Ma, who teaches in Japan, is so happy that he no longer seems to have ties with Alibaba Group in China.
Behind the scenes, you may still be planning your career, choosing again, looking for a new direction, and embarking on another road of life.
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