{"product_id":"book-ahjs","title":"Jack Ma: The Biography of a Self-Made Billionaire and CEO of Alibaba Group","description":"\u003cp\u003eJack Ma is the founder and CEO of the Alibaba  Group, a privately owned Internet-based e-commerce company in China  whose sales are estimated to be bigger than its American competitors  eBay and Amazon.com combined. This book unveils Jack Ma s thousand faces  in real life from different angles, and it reveals a Jack Ma different  from your imagination.  How did Jack overcome his humble origins and  early failures to achieve massive success with Alibaba? How did he  outsmart rival entrepreneurs from China and Silicon Valley? Can Alibaba  maintain its 80% market share?   Jack Ma is a man who does not see  failure as an option, not a final one anyway. Ma has been through more  failure than success in his life, we just don’t hear much about it  because his success has been so big! Ma’s education through failure more  than traditional channels has shaped a man that is globally savvy,  compassionate and fiercely passionate about entrepreneurship. He  recently shared with Charlie Rose, ‘I failed a key primary school test 2  times, I failed the middle school test 3 times, I failed the college  entrance exam 2 times and when I graduated, I was rejected for most jobs  I applied for out of college.’ (Ma was one of 5 applicants to the  police force and the only one to be rejected. Then there is the  application as one of 24 applicants to be a KFC manager and also be  rejected. ‘I applied for Harvard ten times, got rejected ten times and I  told myself that ‘Someday I should go teach there.’ Even in the early  success of Alibaba Ma was told by Silicon Valley venture capitalists  that his business model was wholly unprofitable and he was sent back to  China unfunded. In the face of all this adversity Ma did not give up,  give in or blame, he just continued to try.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Author's Republic","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49440507396400,"sku":"BDahjs","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/234597-ahjs-Square.jpg?v=1736519933","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ahjs","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}