Jack Ma Infographic Poster KI 4 KD 3 Project
Jack Ma Infographic Poster KI 4 KD 3 Project
Jack Ma Infographic Poster KI 4 KD 3 Project
JacK MA career
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1994 - 1995
Jack Ma started his first company (Hangzhou Haibo Translation Agency). In early
1995, Jack Ma went to the US and his colleague started to introduce him to the
internet. Jack Ma launched his website at 9:40 and got a lot of offers from Chinese
Investors. At that time Jack Ma realized that the Internet is good. Jack Ma started to
make his second company with He Bi Ying. He registers a Chinapage domain in the
US and within three years his company value is 800.000 USD or 5 Million CNY. Jack
Ma continues his business by making Chinese company websites.
1998 - 2000
Jack Ma headed to an information technology company. After one year he quit and
returned to Hangzhou. In 1999, Jack Ma and his team founded Alibaba with starting
capital of 500.000 Yuan. Until January 2020, Alibaba had a total of 25 million USD
from foreign capital investment (Goldman Sachs and Softbank).
2018 - 2020
On 9 January 2017, Ma met with United States President-elect Donald Trump at
Trump Tower, to discuss the potential of 1 million job openings in the following five
years through Alibaba's business interests in the United States of America. In the
same month, Ma also partnered with Sir Li Ka-Shing in a joint venture to offer a digital
wallet service in Hong Kong. Jack Ma announced on 10 September 2018 that he
would step down as executive chairman of Alibaba Group Holding. Ma officially
stepped down from the board of Alibaba on 1 October 2020.