Chinese e-commerce billionaire and CEO of Alibaba Group, Jack Ma has offered a valuable lesson for African entrepreneurs. He is one of the biggest names in world business and he came to Africa to give a master class on becoming an entrepreneur.
Jack Ma entrepreneur extraordinaire worth more than $42 billion dollars and listed by Forbes as one of the most influential business people in the world.
He was rejected for 30 jobs before coming into his own and founding Alibaba the Chinese based e-commerce giant Alibaba – he was in Johannesburg to tell entrepreneurs his story.
Jack Ma Yun is a Chinese business magnate, investor and philanthropist. He is the co-founder and former executive chairman of Alibaba Group, a multinational technology conglomerate. In addition, he co-founded Yunfeng Capital, a private equity firm. Ma is a strong proponent of an open and market-driven economy.
