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INSPIRATION: A Baffling Story Creating History Despite Failure & Rejections
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A Baffling Story
Creating History Despite Failure & Rejections
By Nikita Jaeger

BT 201905 inspiration 01一个莫名其妙的故事,却创造了历史

据福布斯(Forbes)统计,马云作为世界上最大公司之一的创始人估计身价为290亿美元。 他的故事反映了从贫穷到富有精神的真正本质。他曾两次高考落榜,未能通过多次面试。

马云于1964年9月10日出生在中国的杭州一个低收入家庭。 他有一个哥哥和妹妹。 他的父母收入适中,以满足家庭开支。 在美国总统理查德•尼克松访问后,他开始在外国游客涌入杭州期间为英国游客提供免费导游服务,并在交流中学习英语。他在那时得到了绰号杰克。

1995年年初,马云作为翻译来到洛杉矶沟通落实一起高速公路投资未果后,他开始对生活开始有了不同的思想模式。那个时候是中国计算机的初期阶段,没有网络也没有邮件。在美国期间,他搜索“啤酒”,计算机从美国的不同地区和许多欧洲国家弹出了很多关于“啤酒”的窗口,但没一个是来自中国的。这是一个新概念的开始。

1999年,马云说服他的朋友投资创建互联网公司,他的17个朋友同意了(后来被称为18罗汉的马云团队)凑够50万元人民币 开始了新一轮创业,开发阿里巴巴网站,而办公室就是他的公寓。在没有任何外在投资的环境下,他们创建了第一个中国电子商务平台网站-阿里巴巴正式上线。

The one, who has done wonders for a person, might not work for the other. Which means, you cannot copy the success story of a person and replicate that into your life. However, reading stories of people who are part of history can touch the inner soul and let you be motivated. They can be your role models to reap success in life.

BT 201905 inspiration 06Humble beginning
A person, whose estimated worth is $29 billion, as per Forbes, is founder and 7.8% stakeholder of one of the biggest companies in the world. His story reflects the true essence of rags to riches in its real spirit. He was unsuccessful in cracking to the university entrance examination two times, failed to get through many job interviews, and the rest is history.

He was born at Hangzhou, in China on October 15th, 1964, in a low-income family. He has an elder brother and younger sister. His parents were storytellers and musicians, and their earnings were moderate to meet family expenses. He started giving free tour guide service to English visitors, during the influx of foreign tourist in Hangzhou, after the visit of US president Richard Nixon and, in exchange, he learned English lessons. He got the nickname Jack, as one of the tourists started to call him so, instead of his real name.

BT 201905 inspiration 05Failure and rejections
His early days of life were pathetic. He failed in the primary school examinations twice and failed thrice in the middle school examination. Failure had become part of his life, even when he applied for university entrance and was successful only during the third attempt with Hangzhou Normal University. His dream to enter Harvard University was a disastrous episode, even after 10 desperate attempts. On the job segment, when KFC started their operation in China, he was the only person rejected out of 24 candidates. In yet another incident, he tried his luck with the police department and there also he was the only person unlucky to get selected out of the 5 candidates.

BT 201905 inspiration 02Jack Ma spends 6 years teaching both English and international trade at Hangzhou Dianzi University.

Before graduating from Hangzhou Normal University, he started working as an English teacher at Hangzhou Dianzi University for a meagre monthly salary of $12. His fate was not different when he started his entrepreneur engagements. He could not draw anything new to his story, he failed again in two ventures, but nothing could stop him.
 

Instilled thoughts of a business adventure
His life started to have a different pattern of thoughts, ever since he had a visit to the USA in 1995, as part of a government project for developing highways. It was the beginning period of computers in China, but it was scarce, and there were no internet or emails. While at the USA, he searched for ‘beer,' and got pop-ups from different part of the USA and many European countries, but nothing from China. It was the beginning of a new concept.
BT 201905 inspiration 07He convinced his friends to invest in the e-commerce concept, and 17 of his friends agreed to invest in the new e-commerce portal, and that was the beginning of his most famous company. It was a humble beginning from his apartment, on April 4th, 1999, and without any external investment, they opened the first Chinese e-commerce platform, Alibaba.com. And there onward, he never looked back. By 1999, Alibaba was able to rope in SoftBank and Goldman Sachs with an investment of $20million and $5million respectively. It was a difficult task to develop trust among customers, because of the inadequate infrastructural facilities that time China was lagging, especially in payment and courier deliveries.
 

Grand success
Today his company has spread its wings all across the globe, second to Walmart. Was he a computer specialist? Was he a software engineer, who can write software codes? No, it was his sheer vision, relentless thirst to become a success, culminated by the favourable socio-economic conditions, which were perfect for the beginning. The e-commerce slot was vacant in China, but identifying the slot and reaping its potential required forward thinking. Only a visionary entrepreneur can find the nuance of business scope and channel the energy to make it a successful venture.

BT 201905 inspiration 03It would be foolish to think that Jack Ma had a cake walk. He also had the teething issues, which is evident, when he said, “We keep fighting. We keep changing ourselves. We don’t complain.” How could Jack Ma become a successful entrepreneur? We cannot say it is due to his sheer luck. But it is his winning combination and relentless application that had helped him to reap success.
 

He never succumbed to any of the bad things that happened in life, nor did he ever considered failure is a disadvantage and he allowed it to pass as part of the game. Every failure in life gives us an opportunity to learn something new and it enables us to correct the mistake. He traced the hidden opportunities in every failure and rejection, and that was the success of Jack Ma.

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