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#32 Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built

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Jack and the Hang Zao Hotel

A future icon of Chinese entrepreneurship, Jack came into the world at a time when private enterprise had almost been completely extinguished. As a boy he fell in love with the English language and literature, particularly reading Mark Twain's The Adventure of Tom Sawyer. Later it was the arrival of foreign tourists in China that provided Jack with his opening to the outside world. He started waking up before dawn and riding his bicycle for 40 minutes to the Hang Zao Hotel to greet foreign tourists.

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