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Jack Ma

Also known as Ma Yun, Mǎ Yún, Jack Ma Yun, Teacher Ma Yun

Chinese businessman

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Jack Ma is a Chinese businessman who co-founded Alibaba, one of the world's largest e-commerce and technology companies. He matters because he became one of China's most influential entrepreneurs and a prominent figure in global business before stepping back from his company's leadership.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 2

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Success Rules of Billionaires
Being Online

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Finland
Active from: 1940-03-12

rock

Discography

In Memoriam1967
Swingin kutsu1970
Taisteluni1970
M.A. Numminen på svenska1972
Aarteeni, juokaamme likööri1973
Haren satt I gropen i Finland1973
In English1974
Kumipallona luokses pompin ain'1976
Auf Deutsch1976
Som en gummiboll kommer jag tillbaks till dej1977

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Listeners: 59
Total plays: 230

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,163x
A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019
· 2020 · cited 22,050x
BLAST+: architecture and applications
· 2009 · cited 19,872x
A simple method for displaying the hydropathic character of a protein
· 1982 · cited 18,578x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,405x

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Quotes

“Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds and when they grow up they will change the world.”
“The problem is the fake products today are of better quality and better price than the real names ... They are exactly the same factories, exactly the same raw materials but they do not use the names.”
“In 2001, we went to raise some $3 million in venture capital in the U.S. and got rejected. So we’ve come back and raised a little bit more: $25 billion. This is not money; this is trust from the world, trust from the people.”
“When you have one billion dollars, that's not your money. That's the trust the society gives [to] you.”
“You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.”
“I think that you, american people, worry too much about the China economy, [...] Every time you start to worry about the China economy, China goes better.”

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Image: Enabling eCommerce- Small Enterprises, Global Players (39008130265) (cropped).jpg
Number of children: 2

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Commons category: Ma Yun
date of birth: 1964-09-10
name in kana: マーユン
name in native language: 马云
nickname: Jack Ma
net worth: 37300000000
affiliation string: Alibaba Group Holding Limited

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Ma Yun (Chinese: 马云; pinyin: Mǎ Yún; born 10 September 1964), also known as Jack Ma, is a Chinese businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder of the Jack Ma Foundation, and co-founder of Alibaba Group and Yunfeng Capital. As of May 2025, Ma's net worth was estimated at US$27.2 billion.

After taking the gaokao three times, Ma earned a bachelor's degree in English from Hangzhou Normal University in 1988 and was assigned as a lecturer at Hangzhou Dianzi University. A pioneer of Internet business in China, he founded a translation agency in 1994 and launched its website the following year, before leaving his university position to run an online yellow pages service, which was acquired by China Telecommunications Corporation in 1996. Following an uneasy collaboration with the state-owned enterprise, Ma left the company in 1997 and went on to develop websites for China's Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation. In 1999, he co-founded Alibaba Group, initially as a business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce marketplace and later expanded into a multinational conglomerate.