The man known in the West as Jack Ma was born Ma Yun in 1964 in Hangzhou during China's Cultural Revolution where his family was persecuted because his grandparents were members of the Chinese Nationalist Party that opposed Mao's Communist Party. If few things can characterize Jack Ma's background, education and path to success, they are failure, rejection, fighting, resolve, hard work, agility and vision. All throughout Jack Ma's life, from childhood till building a multi-billion dollar global ecommerce technology giant, Ma has failed many times, been rejected and called crazy even by his father who warned him about his unique "dangerous" ideas that could have resulted in his imprisonment in an earlier generation
Jack Ma has learned the most from his and other failures than though the traditional channels of education. Ma, a man or muu failed a key primary declared in an interview with Charlie Rose in Davos, "I test 2 uiles and when I school failed the middle school test 3 times, I failed the college entrance exam 2 times only out of 5 graduated, I was rejected for most jobs I applied for out of college a was the one CYUM) applicants to the police for to be rejected and the only one of 24 applicants to be a KFc my manager to be rejected. "I applied for Harvard ten times, got rejected ten times and I told to get"Someday go teach late 1990s after starting Alibaba, Ma tried there In the venture capital funding in Silicon Valley for Alibaba and got rejected for running an unprofitable business model. He eventually went back to China without funding. (See also: Top 10 Chinese Entrepreneurs.) Formerly, unlike many idolized college drop-out successful entrepreneurs like Mark Zuckerberg(l), Bill Gates(MSFT) or Steve Jobs(AAPL), Jack Ma earned his MBA from Cheung Kong niversity while already building Alibaba in the early 2000s.Though critical of traditional teaching practices, especially at business schools, Ma is fond of academics. He was a university English teacher himself and he also talks of teaching again someday in the future. Like many brilliant innovative minds past and present, Ma struggled academically, especially nd eacondaryt gchools where he failed repeatedly