Four years later,18 people including Ma, his wife and his friends founded Alibaba in Hangzhou.

四年后，包括马、他的妻子和朋友在内的18个人在杭州创建了阿里巴巴。

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He said shortly after Amazon was founded that he was prepared for it to lose money for three or four years.

在亚马逊创立后，他就说准备遭受3到4年的亏损。

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With donations and grants, Purple Heart Homes has grown rapidly since it was founded four years ago.

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Founded four years ago, the house is a student- led initiative designed to explore cutting edge technologies that are environmentally friendly.

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Despite the faith in the freemium business model of a lot of my colleagues in Silicon Valley, the math does not add up, and that is why I ultimately decided not to embrace the freemium business model when I founded my company four years ago.

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