When I graduated from university, 3 years I tried fill in the university.
I applied job 30 times, I was rejected.
I went for a place and you're not good. I went even to the KFC when KFC come to China to SA. 24 people went for the job, 23 people were accepted, I was the only one guy.
And we went for 5 people, 4 of them were accepted.
So to me, being turned down. Oh by the way, I applied for Harvard for ten times rejected. And I told myself someday I should go teach everybody.
We have a secret code for alibaba success. Just like "open sasimi" is the secret code of alibaba. The secret code for everybody is keep your dream alive because it might come true someday.
How cost is culture? It's not technology. I think technology is a tool that the core competence of our companies. We have 20,000 grown from 18 people to now 20,000 people and we focused a lot on the valley animation and making sure the culture everybody works for helping on each others instead of just making money.
So many people I talked to at that time for ali pay leap in "This is the stupidest idea you have ever got" but I think I don't read this stupid a club as long as people use it. Now we have 800 million people use this ali pay.
From movies, I learned how to make a speech from the movie called "Body guard-Whitney Houston". When she sings the songs I look at her, wow! that's the way that you make us picture 'cuz I've never known how to make a speech, 'cuz I'm not an actor.
But when I saw the movie I see wow!. If you sing from your heart, if you sing naturally, if you're yourself, so I realized. I learned a lot from movies, from the godfathers. My favourite movies is Forest Gump. These are the things I learned so much that I would discuss about the means of inspiration that we got from movies.