I have to admit that I’m not really into speeches since those tend to be quite long and dull. However, when I was in high school, I came across this very interesting about Jack Ma. This is the first time I have known about Jack Ma. 

He is a Chinese business magnate, investor and philanthropist. He is the co-founder of Alibaba Group, a multinational technology conglomerate. In addition, Ma is also the co-founder of Yunfeng Capital, a Chinese private equity firm.

The speech centers around Jack's own life, and how his businesses have thrived since 1994. Jack was born into a middle-class family which, of course, did not provide him with any financial base to start a business. 

Jack’s learning progress seemed to be quite rocky as well since he took the Chinese entrance test 3 times and only passed it the 4th time. He became an English lecturer and international trade lecturer at Hangzhou Dianzi University following graduation. Later taking an interest in the emergence of the internet business, he established his first business in 1994. 

Jack, however, overcame those challenges on his own, and with this brilliant idea, he started Alibaba, a type of e-commerce platform that enables customers to purchase items from small enterprises. Since only major businesses could contact customers in 1994–1995 and the Internet was essentially nonexistent in China at the time, such a trade system was remarkable at the time.

I was really impressed by this statement in the speech: “Opportunities always lie in the place where people complain. If you can solve people’s complaints, those complaints become opportunities.” His positive attitude really motivates me to work harder, stop making complaints and start seeking opportunities from the complaints of others. In conclusion, I have great admiration for Jack Ma.

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