Watch Jack Ma go back to the apartment where he started Alibaba in 1999. (via CNBCMakeIt)
Founder and Chairman of Alibaba Group Jack Ma attends the 'Ma Yun Rural Teachers Prize' awards show on January 21, 2018 in Sanya, Hainan province, China.Tuesday, Jack Ma, co-founder of Alibaba, both celebrates his 55th birthday and steps down from his position as executive chairman of the Chinese e-commerce juggernaut.where he lived with his wife in Hangzhou, China in 1999.
"I remember exactly the first day we came back, we take all the luggage here, and I told everybody: This is the place we're going to work for a year probably," Ma said in the video. "So I talked to my friend: Why not I make something about China? So we made a small very ugly looking page called 'China.'"
By the time they began working on the company out of the Hangzhou apartment in 1999, Ma and his team had the goal of becoming one of the top 10 websites in the world, he said.
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