Alibaba Founder Jack Ma Short Inspirational Story

Jack Ma is the ninth richest person in China. But from the beginning of his life he was a big failure. He struggled a lot in his life.

He started his career as a tourist guide & worked for 9 years. After that he started to look for a regular job but

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after giving more than 30 interviews he did not get any job. Jack Ma was so unlucky that once he interviewed for

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KFC with 24 other candidates but out of 24, 23 candidates got selected but the only one who got rejected was 'Jack Ma'.

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He also applied for Harvard university 10 times, but got rejected. In 1994 Jack Ma heard about the internet & found that there are only a few Chinese websites.

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Then he made lots of websites for Chinese people but none of the websites work. Finally Jack Ma gives his final try & collects some money from

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his friends & relatives then launches an E-commerce website 'Alibaba Groups' with his 17 friends. The idea finally worked & Alibaba became a sensation in China.

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Alibaba is now one of the most famous E-commerce websites in the world. After the immense success of Alibaba,

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Jack Ma became the richest person. As per Forbes, Jack Ma was the 2nd richest person in China, in 2020.

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What We Learn- In life, no matter how many times you fail or get rejected, if you never give up, one day you will definitely get what

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you always wanted. Rejections & failures are the part of our success, if we really want to be successful we have to learn from them.

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