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  1. On Monday, SoftBank announced that Ma would resign from the troubled investment fund's board of directors. SoftBank Group Corp Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son speaks during their joint news ...

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    Jack Ma is seen as a visionary leader in China, along the likes of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg in the United States. However, he does not code, and has never learnt to do so. He famously failed China's college entrance exam twice before being accepted into an obscure college, and could not even get a job at KFCafter graduation. Even ...

    In China there was a deluge of well-wishing messages from Chinese netizens in reaction to news of his retirement:

    Alibaba's CEO Daniel Zhang, most notable for the creation of the Nov. 11 Singles' Day shopping bonanza -- the world's largest online shopping event -- will take over Ma's role of Chairman. This marks a drastically different approach from other Asian billionaires like Li Ka-shing, who have passed their businesses to their children. Ma's retirement a...

    Ma said he wants to devote most of his time to philanthropy, focusing on education, after retirement. In a Bloomberg interviewon Sept. 7 just three days before he made the announcement, he hinted at his plans to retire: He added that he had been preparing his plans for philanthropy for the past 10 years, such as the Jack Ma Foundation (inspiredin p...

  2. Jack Mas elite business academy has been forced to suspend new student enrollments following pressure from Beijing as authorities tighten their chokehold on the Chinese tech billionaire’s empire.”

  3. Jun 7, 2021 · Jack Mas elite business academy has been forced to suspend new student enrollments following pressure from Beijing as authorities tighten their chokehold on the Chinese tech billionaire’s...

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  4. Jun 25, 2021 · VCG via Getty Images. Then he disappeared. Ma last took the public stage on October 24 of last year, in Shanghai. He gave a speech – The Speech, as it will be known – in which he was bluntly...

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  5. Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma has made his first appearance since Chinese regulators cracked down on his business empire. His absence had fuelled speculation over his whereabouts amid...

  6. Sep 9, 2016 · Failing is one thing. Getting a score of less than 1 percent on your college entrance exam is something else completely. And it wasn't because he didn't have time to prepare. To this day, Ma...