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Today, Teacher's Day, jack ma officially retired from Alibaba!

Date:2019-09-10 Hits:2056

Today, Teacher's Day,  jack ma officially retired from Alibaba!

Jack ma's 55th birthday, alibaba's 20th anniversary, marks China's 36th teacher's day on September 10, 2019. Today is also the day that jack ma officially steps down as chairman of alibaba group.


Take a look at the network summary of jack ma's 10 big moments

1. 1984: admitted to the undergraduate program by accidentIn 1984, this is the third time ma yun took the college entrance examination.This one year, the maths result of ma yun from 3 years ago unexpectedly 1 minute, soar 79 minutes, but total depart undergraduate course line to still be poor 5 minutes, can go up the specialized subject of hangzhou normal college only.But fortune had favoured him. This year, the undergraduate course of English major of hangzhou normal university did not enrol full, the school decides to drop cent to admit a few English are good student, then, ma yun went up the major of undergraduate course with the result of specialized subject.After graduation, ma yun was assigned to work as a teacher at hangzhou electronic technology college. From then on, the name "ma teacher" will accompany him all his life.

2. 1995: meet the InternetAt this time, ma yun has started his first business - the establishment of hangzhou haibo translation agency.In 1995, ma yun had a chance to go to the United States. In Seattle, Mr. Ma first touched the Internet at the company of a local friend.Ma yun later in the CCTV "people" program, the scene is like this:Mr. Ma carefully typed four letters into yahoo's search bar: BEER.The search results came up, and Mr. Ma saw beer from around the world. But none from China. He enters "Chinese beer" but returns "Nodata" (Nodata).After returning home, Mr. Ma quit his "iron rice bowl" job to start China yellow pages, one of the earliest Chinese websites on the Internet.

3. 1999: "ocean's 18"On the fifth day of the lunar New Year, hangzhou hupan garden community, 18 people filled a room.It was alibaba's first all-hands meeting, and ma spoke passionately for two hours and invited photographers to videotape the entire event.It is one of the most famous scenes in the history of the Internet in China.Although ma yun said dancing, but listen to the people are solemn. According to the people present, they could not understand what he said anyway, but they were too embarrassed to interrupt because of his passion.At the beginning, alibaba could not even pay its employees 500 yuan per month, and the company was going bankrupt. But Mr Tsai's efforts have led to $25m of investment from big institutions such as Goldman sachs and softbank.

4. 2003: the mysterious "taobao"Ali survived the global Internet bubble. In April 2003, ye feng, a little girl who had been working for less than a year, was suddenly called to ma yun's office.Ye feng came in a look, ma yun, tsai chongxin, guan mingsheng, peng lei and other big men are in, scared a big jump.'now I have a secret task for you,' Mr. Ma told her. 'I need you to leave this company and go to another place to do it.' You can't tell anyone, not even your parents, family, or boyfriend. Will you?They moved out of their offices and returned to lakeside gardens, alibaba's entrepreneurial mecca. Began working around the clock on the secret mission.On May 10, the project went online, and ye feng gave it a name, taobao.

5. 2003: alipayIn October 2003, taobao launched alipay service for the first time. The second year, pay treasure to be detached from taobao.com independence. In the following ten years, alipay gradually launched a series of financial services, such as mobile phone payment service, credit card quick payment service, balance appreciation service "yu 'ebao", sesame credit, ant flower bai, etc. Today, ant financial is the world's largest unicorn company.However, alipay's development has not been smooth. In 2014, the year of the horse Spring Festival, WeChat launched the red envelope payment, overnight completed more than 100 million tied CARDS, so that has been in the third-party payment competition after falling behind alipay tenpay hit a beautiful "turnaround".At that time, on January 29, 2014, ma yun left a message on his wechat account:Almost overnight, all sectors believe that alipay system will be WeChat Lucky Money comprehensive beyond. How great the experience and the product is... That's awesome! The attack on Pearl Harbor was planned and executed perfectly. Fortunately, the Spring Festival passed quickly, the following days are still a long time, but it did teach us a lesson.

6. 2005: yahoo "help"Set up two years later, taobao has come to the abyss.It was Yang zhiyuan, co-founder of yahoo!, a friend of jack ma's in Beijing in 1997, who saved his life.When Mr. Yang returned to China in 1997, Mr. Ma, then a translator, was assigned to accompany him on a tour of the Great Wall. Years later, Mr. Yang began to hear about alibaba, and discovered that alibaba's Mr. Ma was the same person as the tour guide.In 2005, Mr. Yang made a startling decision to swap $1 billion, plus all of yahoo China's assets, for a 40 percent stake in alibaba.It's still being called the most lucrative investment in silicon valley history. When it comes to Mr. Yang's accomplishments, many people say, 'first, build yahoo. Second, invest in ali.

7. 2009: double 11In August 2007, Mr. Zhang came to taobao as CFO from shanda, then a popular gaming company. But he went far beyond finance. In 2009, Mr. Zhang took over a project called taobao mall. At that time, it was just an accessory of taobao.com, and there were no merchants stationed there, nor did consumers care about it.Later, zhang yong and his team decided to have a big promotion in the second half of the year, which led to singles day. Singles' day, created by zhang yong, has become a miracle in the history of the world's Internet development.

8. 2013: landed on U.S. stocksIn 2013, alibaba started the listing process again (alibaba B2B had already exited the Hong Kong stock market in 2012).Since the Hong Kong stock market did not recognize the "same share but different rights", ali chose to list in New York. And this listing is no longer a single B2B business, but the entire group.Alibaba went public on the New York stock exchange on September 20, 2014. Alibaba's share price jumped 38.07% on the same day, elevating jack ma to the position of China's richest man.

9. 2016: new retailAt the alibaba cloud habitat conference in October 2016, jack ma proposed new retail for the first time in his speech. "In the next 10 years, 20 years, there will be no e-commerce, just new retail," he said.

10. 2018: announces plans to step downOn September 10, 2018, jack ma announced on his microblog: with the approval of the board of directors, one year later today, September 10, 2019, the 20th anniversary of alibaba, I will no longer serve as the chairman of the board of directors of alibaba group, and the current CEO of alibaba group zhang yong (xiaozi) will take over as the chairman of the board of directors. I will cooperate fully with zhang yong from today to prepare for the transition of our organization. After September 10, 2019, I will continue to serve as a member of the alibaba group board of directors until the alibaba annual general meeting in 2020.

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