How Jack Ma started his business journey

When I started my business in 1995 it was very difficult I had an idea I invited 24 of my friends to my apartment because that year I went to settle for the first time on my first trip to the USA I had never touched a computer in my life before because the computer was like that. It costs me and so complicated after two hours I explained what I was going to do internet and 23 of them said forget it said this thing never worked because there is no such thing as internet in the world you know nothing about computer so why do you want to do this and um only one people said jack if you want to try it just to try it but if it's something wrong just come back and after a whole night I think I still want to do it because most people have common sense. In the evening but in the afternoon when they wake up in the evening or in the morning they come back to do the same work we have to do something different so from then on I started my business borrowing 2,000 us dollars from my relatives and friends but it was my journey that I called myself blind. all and I have survived since 1995 I started a business I almost completed every project never lived our unon oh ey but if someone says I give you 1 million us dollars and then give you hope which I can choose I choose those people who trust me because it is the hope that unites us when I go to Chinese red company. Registration office I said I wanted to register a company called hanzo hope internet company a boy looked at me saying this is an English dictionary and told me that there is no online name why you want a registered company called internet so I can't register a company name to make sure I don't lie I invite a friend my man TV take a TV camera they all live in my house and we are just trying to take a picture of me dying from hangzhou to shanghai, Shanghai to america connect The internet took us three and a half hours to download the first one on the page so I have to do it a hundred stars to keep my journalist friends waiting because it proves I'm not lying for the first time. three years alib we have been without a business model since 1999 we have 18 founders so far we have about 60,000 of our vendors called gmv last year is over 550 billion US dollars and it is just the beginning we will almost fall into -trillion us dollars. In three years we do not think we are a company we think we are an economy and we hope in 20 years by 2036 we will be the fifth economy in the world I have been saying this to my team since we were in the Apartment when we were home of the world and my founders looked at me and said 10 number 10 means today we are listed as 500 million something in the background but you have to believe I think as a businessman when everything is ready that does not need you because there is nothing good that a businessman needs when netts was very good . Today you can believe in you will always be good be paranoid just finish the first 100 meters yet do something people next to you is a competitor running another 3000 meters then you know who the competitor so I thought when I was 40 I could go back to teach, but I have 40 oh my god life it was very difficult my company almost got into big trouble so i told him to go and say if I am 45 I will retire if I am 45 I can not stop and start preparing and say people jack you are the next Bill Gates I said I can not compete with Bill Gates but I can compete with bill gates who can retire early something that says I do not want to die. In my office I want to die on the beaches I was trained to be a teacher and I benefit because I don't know anything about technology computing I'm still confused about how soft it can work, and I don't know about con you know accounting marketing I don't know anything about that but the thing I learned from being a teacher succeed and be better than you so this I have learned to be a good CEO look at this guy if you think he will be your boss he will be my boss in five years. Hello as a businessman it is very hard and tomorrow is even harder but tomorrow is better you have to learn you have to rely on your team.