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Alibaba founder, Jack Ma graduated from the Hangzhou Teacher's Institute in 1988 with a major in English language education, and went on to teach at another university in the city. He gave up____university teaching job after ____(discover)the Internet.
Ma became excited ____the Internet during a visit to the United States in 1995 and wanted to find a way ____(bring )the online world to China. In 1999, he persuaded friends to give him $60,000 to start an e-commerce firm called Alibaba.
Seeing an opportunity for small businesses to buy and sell their goods online, he started Alibaba, firstly running the company out of his apartment in the ____(east) city of Hangzhou. Alibaba Group includes Tmall.com for business-to-consumer trade and Taobao, China's____(popular )online consumer marketplace with hundreds of millions of products and services listed. Now the company is ____Internet giant and Ma—a former English teacher---is among China's most super-rich.
On his long road to riches, Jack Ma says his____(inspire) has been the film character Forrest Gump.
“I like that guy. I____(watch) that movie about 10 times,” he said in an interview with CNBC.
“Every time I get frustrated, I watch that movie.”
Ma said the lesson he learned from the film featuring Tom Hanks was ____“no matter what changes, you are you. I'm still the guy I was 15 years ago when I earned $20 a month.