The Monthly Episode - December 2021 - The Billionaire Episode - 26
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In 1995, during a company trip to USA, he was fascinated with the powers of internet. In a friend’s place in Seattle, he searched “beer”. He found beers from Germany, USA and other countries. Then he searched “China” and still got nothing. There in he saw an opportunity to bring China on the world’s map. 
 He started China Pages, a version of yellow pages but it did not work out. Then he joined a government agency in Beijing to start a website for the government.
In 1999, Ma decided to start again in Hangzhou. With his wife and a group of friends, he raised $80,000 and started Alibaba, a B2B selling platform and by 2000, he raised $25 million from investors including Goldman Sachs and SoftBank. By 2003, he started Tabao, where sellers could sell to each other, a sort of Modern day Amazon. He declared war on Ebay who had just entered the Chinese market.
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