Ma Yun's Entrepreneurial Course?
Ma Yun1At the end of 994, Ma Yun first heard about the Internet; 1995 at the beginning, I went to the United States occasionally and came into contact with the Internet for the first time. Jack Ma, who knew nothing about computers, began to understand the Internet with the help and introduction of his friends.
1in April, 1995, Mr. and Mrs. Ma Yun and a friend raised 20,000 yuan together, and Hangzhou Haibo Network Company, which is dedicated to making home pages for enterprises, opened. The website was named "China Yellow Pages" and became one of the earliest Internet companies in China. In less than three years, they made 5 million yuan by using the website.
From 65438 to 0997, Ma Yun and his team developed a series of national websites in Beijing, such as the official website of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, the online China Commodity Exchange Market, the online China Technology Export Fair, the China Investment Promotion Association, the online Canton Fair, and China's foreign trade and economic cooperation.
Ma Yun1999 In March, Ma Yun officially resigned from public office and returned to Hangzhou with his team to start a new round of entrepreneurship with 500,000 yuan to develop Alibaba's website. People realize that the Internet industry should attach importance to and give priority to the development of business-to-business electronic commerce (B2B), which is called "the fourth mode of the Internet".
1999 10 and 2000 10, Alibaba won a total of 25 million US dollars in international venture capital twice. With the management concept of "the wisdom of the East, the operation of the West, and the global market", Ma Yun quickly recruited international talents, fully explored the international market, and cultivated the domestic e-commerce market to meet the needs of China enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises.
Alibaba.com continues to provide China's outstanding export-oriented manufacturing enterprises with the professional promotion service of "China Supplier" in the global market, helping enterprises to obtain more and more valuable international orders, and has been selected as one of the best B2B websites in the world by Forbes, an authoritative American financial magazine.
In order to improve the whole e-commerce system, Ma Yun started to set up well-known domestic e-commerce brands such as Alibaba, Taobao, Alipay, Mama Ali, Tmall, Ceramic Art and Alibaba Cloud in 2003. Ma Yun has also played an important role in many companies. Among them are Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alibaba Group, Director of Softbank Group, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Yahoo China, Member of the Business Advisory Committee (ABAC) of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), Dean of Alibaba Business School of Hangzhou Normal University, Director of Huayi Brothers Media Group, Director of TNC (Nature Conservancy) Global Board of Directors, President of Haibo Translation Agency and Director of Global Life Science Breakthrough Award Foundation.