Jack Ma is the co-founder and former executive chairman of Alibaba Group — one of the world's largest e-commerce and technology companies. He built Alibaba from an 18-person startup in a Hangzhou apartment in 1999 into a global empire encompassing e-commerce, cloud computing, digital payments and entertainment.
Before founding Alibaba, he was an English teacher who had been rejected by Harvard Business School ten times and famously failed to get a job at KFC. His extraordinary journey from rejection to becoming one of the world's richest people made him one of the most inspiring entrepreneurial stories of the modern era.
At its peak, Alibaba's ecosystem processed more transactions than eBay and Amazon combined. Jack Ma's vision of using technology to empower small businesses and entrepreneurs transformed commerce across Asia and beyond.