Ma Yun became one of the richest men in China when his company(公司) Alibaba went on the stock(股票) market in 2014 with a value of around 140 billion—the largest public offering in history. Here 1 some stories about him on the way to success.
Ma made his first trip to the USA in 1995 and used the Internet 2 the first time. After3for "beer", he saw that no 4 came up about China. Then he searched for "China" and still saw no results. He decided to 5 a Chinese website — that's the beginning of the Alibaba.
Ma said he was refused many times in his life. He failed the college Entrance Examination in China three times and 6 companies offered him jobs, including one at KFC. And he was refused by the famous Harvard University ten times.
It was 7 to learn English when Ma was a teenager because there were no enough resources(资源). However, he found that he could learn English well by giving tourists free guides around his hometown Hangzhou. 8 he kept it for nine years. Ma said that tourists opened up a new world for him because everything 9 said and did was so different from what he had been taught at school and by his parents.
Ma's hero is Forrest Gump 10 never gives up. When he made a speech about his success at Davos(达沃斯论坛) in 2015, Ma said, "Life is like a box of chocolates because you never know what you are going to get."
