First, English teachers.
1984, Ma Yun, the third college entrance examination, worked as a secretary and porter after the first two failures, worked in a magazine for three rounds, went to work during the day and studied at night, and finally reluctantly entered the English Department of Hangzhou Normal University. After graduation, I joined Hangzhou Dianzi University as an English teacher. Although it was a bumpy experience, Ma Yun's English level at that time was a coincidence, which helped him start a business.
Second, translation institutions.
From 65438 to 0994, Ma Yun founded the first organization: Haibo translation agency. The first month's income was in 700 yuan, and the rent was 2000 yuan. Ma Yun went to Yiwu with sacks on his back to support translation agency. Two years later, he organized the first English corner in Hangzhou. Ma Yun told China Entrepreneur: "I thought translation would be in demand and should be successful."
Third, China Yellow Pages.
1995, Ma Yun, known as "the best English in Hangzhou", was entrusted by the Zhejiang Provincial Communications Department to collect debts in the United States and came into contact with the Internet by chance in Seattle. He decided that the Internet was the future direction, but found that China's websites could not be searched. After returning to China, Ma Yun and his wife and friends raised 20,000 RMB to set up Haibo.com.. These three employees are Ma Yun, Ma Yun's wife and He. And launched the China Yellow Pages project, the mode of which is to provide online information release and homepage for China enterprises. At that time, the charging standard was a homepage with 3,000 words and a photo, and the charge was 20,000 yuan.
In China at that time, Ma Yun, who promoted China Yellow Pages, was regarded as a "liar" by many people. At the end of 1997, China Yellow Pages made a profit. However, after the cooperation with Hangzhou Telecom, the two sides had differences, which made Ma Yun decide to give up the website.
4. General Manager of China Electronic Commerce Center of MOFTEC.
1At the end of 1997, Ma Yun and his team were invited as the general manager of China Electronic Commerce Center of MOFTEC, responsible for developing the online trading market of its products in official website and China. Beginning to contact foreign trade and economic cooperation, Ma Yun's idea of doing B2B websites began to mature.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) Alibaba
1In February, 999, after Ma Yun resigned from public office, he founded another startup company, Alibaba. Founded by 18 people, including Ma Yun's wife, colleagues, students and friends, it was later called "Eighteen Arhats". 1999 April 15, Alibaba.com started. Cai Chongxin, who later played a very important role, joined in the same year. At first, Alibaba's financing was not smooth. 1October 29th, 1999, 10, led by Goldman Sachs, with Alibaba financing 5 million US dollars. In 2000 10, Sun Zhengyi invested $20 million in Alibaba.
Sixth, Forbes
On July 10, 2000, the global edition of Forbes reported Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba. Ma Yun is the first China entrepreneur to win this honor in 50 years. This "B2B of Shrimp" cover article made Alibaba go to the world and began to attract the attention of the media all over the world.
Seven, Taobao
In May 2003, Alibaba launched Taobao, a personal e-commerce website. In order to compete with Ebay, which was already quite powerful at that time, Taobao adopted a completely free model, and Alibaba invested huge sums of money every year. But Taobao has developed rapidly and is now the most powerful online shopping platform in China.
Eight, Yahoo
Alibaba's B2B business is not as smooth as expected. In order to cope with the financial pressure, Ma Yun had to consider selling some equity financing. On August 1 1, 2005, Alibaba and Yahoo announced the signing of a cooperation agreement in Beijing. Yahoo exchanged all the assets of Yahoo China and $6,543.8 billion for a 40% stake in Alibaba. "Alibaba's Acquisition of Yahoo China" made Ma Yun a man of the hour again. But it turns out that this kind of capital operation not only brings cash, but also troubles. Yahoo China completely withdrew from the ranks of China's first-line portals. After Yahoo owns Alibaba's equity, the ownership of the company's control rights, Alipay's foreign shareholding and other issues have made Ali pay the price.
Nine, Wei Zhe
20061October 20th, 165438+ Alibaba announced that Wei Zhe, the former president of B&Q area, had officially joined Alibaba as the senior vice president of the group and the president of enterprise electronic commerce (B2B). 20 1 1 At the beginning of the year, a "fraud gate" broke out in Ali, and complaints about websites containing fraudulent information kept rising. Ma Yun purified the atmosphere and Wei Zhe resigned.
X. Ali went public
On June 6, 2007,165438+1October 6, 2007, Alibaba, which underwent structural adjustment and split its B2B business, was successfully listed as a B2B company in Hong Kong. With financing of $65.438+69 billion, it once became the Internet company with the highest market value in China. At the time of listing, Ma Yun once boasted Haikou: "If you miss Google, you can't miss Ali". On the first day of listing, Alibaba set a number of records with an amazing performance of HK$ 30, which was 1.22% higher than the issue price. But in the following years, Ali's share price continued to fall below the issue price, and Ma Yun, who promised not to sell shares, also cashed out many times.
XI。 The rise of Taobao and Tmall
"Alibaba Group's only profitable business now is Alibaba," an IT reporter described Ali in 2008. In 2008, Ma Yun invested an additional 2 billion yuan in Taobao, and Taobao lived up to expectations. In the cold winter of China economy in 2008,