From small to large, Ma Yun not only did not go to a first-class university, but even primary and secondary schools were third and fourth rate. Junior high school entrance examination, high school entrance examination twice, high school entrance examination, university entrance examination three times, of which the first college entrance examination, mathematics only 1 point.
Before he took part in the college entrance examination for the third time, his teacher said, "if you pass the examination, my name will be written upside down."
在他第三次参加高考前,他的老师说:“你要是考上的话,我的名字倒过来写。”
"I think I can't count on others, I can't talk about others, but I succeed in starting a business - if Ma Yun can succeed in starting a business, I believe 80% of young people can succeed in starting a business."
After graduating from University, Ma Yun taught English in Hangzhou Institute of electronic technology. In 1991, Ma Yun started business and established Haibo translation agency with his friends. As a result, the first month's income was 700 yuan and the rent was 2000 yuan, which was ridiculed unanimously.
In two years, Ma Yun not only supported the translation agency and organized the first English corner in Hangzhou, but also became the teacher with the most courses in the whole college. Now, as Ma Yun hoped, Haibo has become the largest translation agency in Hangzhou and even Zhejiang Province.
At the end of 1994, Ma Yun first heard about the Internet; In early 1995, he went to the United States by accident and first came into contact with the Internet. Jack Ma, who knows nothing about computers, began to understand the Internet with the help and introduction of his friends. At that time, there was no information about China on the Internet. Out of curiosity, Ma Yun asked someone to make a website of his own translation agency. Unexpectedly, he received four emails in three hours.
Then, restless, he came up with an idea: to build a website to collect the information of domestic enterprises, put it on the Internet and publish it to the whole world.At this time, Ma Yun, who has just entered his early 30s, is one of the top ten outstanding young teachers in Hangzhou. The principal also promised him the position of director of Foreign Affairs Office. However, the maverick Ma Yun waved his hand, gave up all his status, status and treatment in the school, and resolutely went to sea.
1995年4月,马云和妻子再加上一个朋友,凑了两万块钱,专门给企业做主页的“海博网络”公司就这样开张了,网站取名“中国黄页”,成为中国最早的互联网公司之一。At the beginning of 1999, Ma Yun, who has broadened his macro vision, returned to Hangzhou to start his second business. He decided to get involved in the field of e-commerce.
1999年初,开阔了宏观视野的马云返回杭州,进行二次创业,他决定介入电子商务领域。
In September 1999, Ma Yun's Alibaba website was launched, aiming to become a guide for small and medium-sized enterprises to open the door of wealth. At that time, the Internet boom was surging in China, but both investors and the public always focused on the portal website.
Ma Yun's establishment of e-commerce website at this time is a move against the trend in China, and has created a new mode in the whole Internet industry, which is known by the international media as the fourth Internet mode after Yahoo, Amazon and eBay. Alibaba's unique B2B model is hard to find a successful example even in the United States today.
In March 1995, Ma Yun resigned from Hangzhou Institute of Electronic Technology, took out 6,000 yuan or 7,000 yuan by himself, borrowed more than 10,000 yuan from his sister and brother-in-law, and made up 20,000 yuan to start a business.
In April 1995, Hangzhou Haibo Computer Service Co., Ltd., the first Internet commercial company in China, was established. The three employees are Ma Yun, Ma Yun's wife Zhang Ying and He Yibing.
In May, 1995, China Yellow Pages was officially launched, and Ma Yun started doing business from friends around him. At this time, there are still three months before China can access the Internet.
In July, 1995, China Yellow Pages set up a website for Zhejiang Foreign Publicity Office to publicize Zhejiang's economy and culture on the Internet, which was called "Golden Pigeon Project".
In March 1996, Ma Yun decided to merge with Hangzhou Telecom, because Hangzhou Telecom also made a Chinese yellow pages market. China Yellow Pages is priced at 600,000 yuan, accounting for 30% of the shares, and Hangzhou Telecom has invested 1.4 million yuan in cash, accounting for 70% of the shares.
In 1997, after being invited by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation to set up China International Electronic Commerce Center (EDI), Ma Yun decided to give up China Yellow Pages.
He sold his 21% Chinese yellow pages to the company at a price of 2 or 3 cents per share, and got back more than 100,000 yuan. After that, Ma Yun and his team developed foreign economics in Beijing