The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Jack Ma is The Visionary because he sold the future before it arrived. With almost no technical background, he built Alibaba into one of the world's largest e-commerce and technology conglomerates by persuading investors, employees, and governments that digital commerce would reshape China's economy before the evidence fully supported that conviction.
“The reality was that Jack late to the portal game had to find his own niche in China. The portals were trying to capture the growing number of individuals coming online, but Jack was going to stick with what he knew best, small businesses.”
“A phone call from my friend Jack, you've got five emails. I said, what is email? Three emails came from the United States, one from Japan, and one from Germany. Back and hangs out. He returns now, he said about building his concept of an online yellow pages. He named the business China Pages.”
“So he went to meeting this young boy, and his name is David David Morley, and David's talking here, and it says, it was on that free evening, flicking matches in the park that I was approached by a young man wanting to try his newly acquired English skills on me.”
“Deng is the Chinese leader, the one who opened up China in 1992, he undertook something called his famous Southern tour. And it was on that tour when he pronounced that to get rich is glorious. So, okay, so Jack recalled the lesson he drew from Deng Southern Toy. You can be rich. You can help other people be rich.”
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