In a famous story, a young boy called Ali Baba says “Open Sesame” and a door to treasures is opened before him. Ma Yun drew inspiration from this and founded Alibaba.com.
Over 14 years, Alibaba.com has become China’s largest e-commerce (电子商务) website. E-commerce is the a 小题1: of buying and selling goods and services and doing other business activities using a computer and the Internet. However, the founder chose to leave and to discover new areas of business. On May 28, Ma became chairman of Cainiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.The company will set up China Smart Logistics (物流) Network. Its goal is to deliver packages (运送包裹) to people anywhere in the country w 小题2: 24 hours.
The 48-year-old businessman, who is short and thin and often wears oversized suits, always had he courage to dream big and try new things.
Ma got the idea or starting a business career in 1995. He was then working for a US trading company as a translator, when he was introduced to the Internet. He s 小题3: the word "beer" and saw that no data came up about Chinese products(产品).
Ma had an idea: why not build a large Internet market to connect(连接)consumers and companies from all over the world and do business o 小题4: ?
That is how Alibaba began. His company grew quickly. But that doesn't mean e 小题5: went well. Alibaba had a difficult time in 2000, when many Internet companies failed. Ma was successful because he m 小题6: to attract investment(投资)in his company.
But there is a deeper r 小题7: for Ma's success: his attitude. "You deserve (值得) to live your dream," said. "Everyone thought I was daydreaming when I started. But the most important thing is that we believed in our dream from day one, to today and tomorrow Of course we made many mistakes, but we never gave up hope."
