Ma Yun became one of 1 men in China when his company Alibaba went on the stock (股票) market last year with a value of around 140 billion—the largest public offering in history. Here are some stories about him on the way to success.

    Ma made his 2 trip to the US in 1995 and used the Internet for the first time. After 3 for "beer", he saw that no results came up about China. Then he searched for "China" and still saw no results. He decided to set up a Chinese website--the seed for Alibaba was sown (播种).

    Ma said he was refused many times in his life. He failed the College Entrance Examination in China three times and 4 companies offered him jobs, including one at KFC. And he was refused by the famous Harvard University 10 times.

    5 was difficult to learn English when Ma was a teenager 6 limited resources. 7, he found that he could learn English well by 8 tourists free guides around his hometown Hangzhou. And he kept it for nine years. Ma said that tourists opened up 9 new world for him.

    Ma's hero is Forest Gump who never gives up. When he made a speech about his 10 at Davos (达沃斯论坛) in 2015,Ma said, "Life is like a box of chocolates because you never know what you are going to get."