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Is a vision, or arrogant?
In early 1999, he played a well-known Web site on behalf of the wealth of the domain

name "Alibaba" and then he told his team, said: "I want to return to Hangzhou,

founded an own company from scratch. Are willing to go back, and only 500 yuan wage ;

willing to stay in Beijing, could be introduced to the incomes of Yahoo and Sina very

high. "He said, with three days time to give them consideration, but less than 5

minutes, the partners decided unanimously:" We are back to Hangzhou, go, go! " This

is what Alibaba employees dubbed the "Ocean's 18," the mountain veterans. In March

1999, in Hangzhou, Ma founded Alibaba's home. He and his "Ocean's 18" day and night

to work on the ground there is a sleeping bag, who tired, they got into sleep. In

order to achieve different, Alibaba must move quickly across the globe, or Zhizuo

country will become a no buyer seller, loss of first will be meaningless.
This time, in order to Alibaba, Jack Ma is determined to attack the world, to various

countries to show his peerless eloquence. He went to various universities to do a

speech to the e-commerce web conferencing and forums preach his B2B model. Weird

looks, highly inflammatory eloquence and beyond the world of business thinking, even

in this skinny weak fusion of Chinese human beings, whom the audience are all

surprised. Ma foreign media began to show great enthusiasm. But Ma further charm, no

matter how vigorous speech, when he should return to reality: Alibaba short of money,

a huge operating costs will be hard-pressed by Ma. Fortunately, Ma non-stop speaking

tour in the world played a role in double-edged sword --- First, to attract

customers, the second is to attract venture capital. Venture capital slowly from Ma's

speech had on his interest in Alibaba, with the AB, the Deputy Director Cai Chongxin

inspected and join Alibaba Alibaba after dozens of venture capital providers and

contact Mr. Ma talks. 38 refused to venture capital investment, Ma received an

investment group led by Goldman Sachs 5 million U.S. dollars of investment. On the

second day of the funds in place, Ma Yunfei went to Beijing to "see a mysterious

figure." Meeting found out, that person is the largest shareholder in Yahoo, "Global

Internet Investment emperor," Softbank President Masayoshi Son's! Originally

scheduled for 1 hour of talk, Ma spoke just 6 minutes, Masayoshi Son said: Ma, I have

to invest in Alibaba! And with my own money. In January 2000, the two sides formally

signed a contract, Masayoshi Son invested 20 million U.S. dollars. Masayoshi Son said

after the judge Alibaba and Yahoo would become the same as a great company.
In 2000, the "Forbes" Evaluation Ma: Napoleon has the same shape, more like

Napoleon's great ambition! Quickly, Ma and Alibaba's reputation has grown in Europe

and the United States from abroad and members of the click-through rate was surge in

trend! Since then, Alibaba industry began to be recognized as the world's best B2B

Web site. December 27, 2001, the Chinese supplier members to reach one million people

and became the world's first to achieve this a number of B2B website, and in the

month profits. This means that Alibaba has really started to make money! Of Ma, to

Alibaba, the Chinese Internet companies, for global e-commerce, it can be termed a

great time! It is officially proclaimed to the world, Ma to create B2B e-commerce

model is correct and feasible.