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Jack Ma

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Jack Ma

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Also known as Ma Yun, Mǎ Yún, Jack Ma Yun, Teacher Ma Yun

Chinese businessman

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Jack Ma, also known by his native name Ma Yun, is a Chinese entrepreneur, philanthropist, and businessperson. Born in Hangzhou in 1964, he is a member of the Chinese Communist Party and was educated at Hangzhou Normal University and the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. He has served as a teacher and held the position of président-directeur général. Ma is affiliated with Alibaba Group and Alibaba Group Holding Limited.

He has received the Knight of the Legion of Honour and was named Financial Times Person of the Year. Ma is the father of two children and speaks Chinese. His published works include *Success Rules of Billionaires* and *Being Online*. He has stated that young people carry seeds that can change the world and that copying competitors leads to failure.

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Person · Open Library

Works
2

Top works

  • Success Rules of Billionaires
  • Being Online

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Finland
Active from
1940-03-12
rock

Discography

Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
59
Total plays
230

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jack+Ma">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge

    · 2015 · cited 30,528x

  2. A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019

    · 2020 · cited 22,151x

  3. BLAST+: architecture and applications

    · 2009 · cited 20,488x

  4. A simple method for displaying the hydropathic character of a protein

    · 1982 · cited 18,691x

  5. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,783x

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Quotes

  • “Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds and when they grow up they will change the world.”
  • “The problem is the fake products today are of better quality and better price than the real names ... They are exactly the same factories, exactly the same raw materials but they do not use the names.”
  • “In 2001, we went to raise some $3 million in venture capital in the U.S. and got rejected. So we’ve come back and raised a little bit more: $25 billion. This is not money; this is trust from the world, trust from the people.”
  • “When you have one billion dollars, that's not your money. That's the trust the society gives [to] you.”
  • “You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.”
  • “I think that you, american people, worry too much about the China economy, [...] Every time you start to worry about the China economy, China goes better.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Ma Yun (Chinese: 马云; pinyin: Mǎ Yún; born 10 September 1964), also known as Jack Ma, is a Chinese businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder of the Jack Ma Foundation, and co-founder of Alibaba Group and Yunfeng Capital. As of May 2025, Ma's net worth was estimated at US$27.2 billion.

After taking the gaokao three times, Ma earned a bachelor's degree in English from Hangzhou Normal University in 1988 and was assigned as a lecturer at Hangzhou Dianzi University. A pioneer of Internet business in China, he founded a translation agency in 1994 and launched its website the following year, before leaving his university position to run an online yellow pages service, which was acquired by China Telecommunications Corporation in 1996. Following an uneasy collaboration with the state-owned enterprise, Ma left the company in 1997 and went on to develop websites for China's Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation. In 1999, he co-founded Alibaba Group, initially as a business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce marketplace and later expanded into a multinational conglomerate.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jack Ma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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