In an interview Jack Ma said, "When I started my business, nobody believed in the Internet; nobody believed that e-commerce would come to anything."

在一次访谈中马云说，在我创业的时候，没人相信互联网，没人相信电子商务。

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In an interesting wrinkle, the latest round of speculation has Jack Ma, CEO of Chinese e-Commerce company Alibaba, being approached by private equity firms about possibly bidding for Yahoo!

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One of the group's 25 business units, Alibaba.com, an e-commerce platform for small businesses, went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2007, before Mr. Ma took it private again last year. (The rest of the group's units, including Taobao, Tmall and Alipay, have never gone public.) The financial crisis hurt Alibaba.com, he says, and it needed major changes.

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