Jack Ma
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. His leadership has always run on storytelling first, treating belief itself as the scarce resource a transformative enterprise must manufacture.
“Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds and when they grow up they will change the world.”
“The problem is the fake products today are of better quality and better price than the real names ... They are exactly the same factories, exactly the same raw materials but they do not use the names.”
“In 2001, we went to raise some $3 million in venture capital in the U.S. and got rejected. So we’ve come back and raised a little bit more: $25 billion. This is not money; this is trust from the world, trust from the people.”
Wikiquote: “Public record read”
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