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Alibaba founder, Jack Ma graduated from the Hangzhou Teacher’s Institute in 1988 with a major in English language education, and went on to teach at another university in the city. He gave up 1. university teaching job after 2. (discover)the Internet.
Ma became excited __3. the Internet during a visit to the United States in 1995 and wanted to find a way 4.(bring )the online world to China. In 1999, he persuaded friends to give him $60,000 to start an e-commerce firm called Alibaba.
Seeing an opportunity for small businesses to buy and sell their goods online, he started Alibaba, firstly running the company out of his apartment in the 5. (east) city of Hangzhou. Alibaba Group includes Tmall.com for business-to-consumer trade and Taobao, China’s 6. (popular )online consumer marketplace with hundreds of millions of products and services listed. Now the company is 7. Internet giant and Ma—a former English teacher---is among China’s most super-rich.
On his long road to riches, Jack Ma says his 8. (inspire) has been the film character Forrest Gump.
“I like that guy. I 9. (watch) that movie about 10 times,” he said in an interview with CNBC.
“Every time I get frustrated, I watch that movie.”
Ma said the lesson he learned from the film featuring Tom Hanks was 10. “no matter what changes, you are you. I’m still the guy I was 15 years ago when I earned $20 a month.