thank you very much is my great honor
I never thought that I will be standing here talking to you like this because
last year our alibaba had a IPO it was a great IPO and people that you
are so smart
how could you make a company like back but before the ideal lot of people said
alibis a terrible model was a problem here and there the finder is terrible
yes that's right I'm a 100-percent mating China either my english by myself
and I tried to teach myself how to programming on computer I still don't
know what
why hide it works but that is not important
like all of you here we all have expectation for the future
we all worry about the future I didn't have a rich father
not from you know well educate i said i tried three times for university all
field for the last time i went to the teachers college which was considered
the third or fourth class of my city but i think that is the best university of a
hat
better than Harvard and Wharton
i apply for harbor for ten times all field they don't want to see me
you know terrible
and I i think that is a normal life right
and I i believe that DOM it was so difficult at that time I was so
frustrated because I taught in the University my pay was ten dollars mouth
was not easy but i believe that something something is waiting for me
there and I have to work hard to prove myself so that was the tough experience
and I never thought I was smart
nobody believed that I could be successful because everybody say well
this guy think differently think you're crazy you know they think about
something never work in 1994 discuss that i'm going to do something called
internet and 23 of them against it this is this is stupid idea
right we have never heard about internet and you know nothing about computer
why you wanted to the computer so what I agree with as i said i believe it
because i saw the computer 1994 when I went the USA
I think this thing could be big but I never thought it would be that big like
today honestly
people say you're smart do you have a big vision 1994 since you saw internet
that was not true
I just want to find a job because i could not find a good job so I do myself
so that is the history that's the thing
and now after for 16 years we have a lot of alibaba group we have a team or group
we have at a ball groupware for Ali pay and people say how you make it
why this make it why people cannot find opportunities you can find opportunities
and I think people
same here today Jack where is the opportunity
I don't have a job I don't have this i don't have that I remember 20 years ago
ice I hate a bill gates I say he took all the job you know these are such a
great
larry page bill gates and every success people they did a good and why I don't
have this chance
the same question like you and later I calm down myself
and luckily I wing I tell you unlucky to know a lot of famous people
Bill Gates Warren Buffet the jack welch Larry Page marks a goober
I know all of that i would like to share with you that those people
the difference between those people and other people they are always optimistic
for the future
they never complain they always tried to solve the problems of the others and I
think
where is the opportunity the opportunity like I always lies in the place where
people complain
some people said their complaint you think if i can solve that complaint
that's the opportunity
that's what i did and i think 1994-1995 so many people in China want to sell
things abroad but there's no place because the big business can go to the
trade fair los vegas fair and Germany fair small business they don't have
opportunity so they completely we want to go the trade shows but they cannot
get these are they don't have money they have a relationship so I think if
internet can help these small business
it will be great but nobody would have believed it
why internet can help
well I said if if something everybody believe it
everybody loved it forget about that's not your opportunity because where
everybody agrees
why this opportunity should be yours because a lot of people don't agree with
it and you think this is good
think carefully and find a group of people working together and making sure
the people working with you together to leave the dreams whether investors
believe this or not whether your friends believe it or not whether your parents
believe it or not that's not important
you believe it your team believe it and work day
night on this that's all the things happens right
my investor denying that after 10 years they invested us this - don't know what
I'm doing
honestly people say why you jack you have such so many great investors yet
they are great because they believe Jack McCann do something but what exactly is
doing
they probably don't understand but we have to know we know the only thing I
tell you guys for the first three years
we do not have the even one dollar revenue from our business but why it
keeps on going ahead
going forward because i received lots of email of thanks from the customers they
say this is such a great thing if you can keep on doing that we cannot pay you
but this thing helping us if you keep on helping us one day you will be
successful and I believe this
and I want people hear that let you know that we are at the best of time of this
century the first technology revolution the steam the water right in the UK very
successful after 50 years
the second technology revolution is called energy revolution electricity
after 50 years electricity was funded business booming
the Internet has only for two years the next to 30 years in the best time for us
for our young people
we are all lucky we are only you only like 20 30 years old
the next 30 years the best time the last 20 years is the time i called
information technology that's the i.t i.t is to make you make the big company
getting bigger and stronger and I t is to make yourself stronger it's-- tried
to get something for you
but now we are entering into the new . which I call the data technology the
date technology is due totally opposite i.t i.t
is I have you don't have DTS you have it
I don't have it I don't have to have it dt is about sharing details meticulous
possibility
dt is about a passion for the future
so we are coming into the next 30 years of data technologies . which your
parents mean like it with your friends may not like it but if you believe the
next 30 years is the one for . for us
and by the way at the det . everybody is the same because we are
start from the scene line nobody is the expert of TT
there are a lot of expert of IT they may be in trouble
so what I want to see the best the best assets you have is that you are young
don't complain let the other people complained those people complained those
people who still and do not always say while I don't have to think about how
you can make things different
use your own brain to think lastly i want to show you
I learned my English I learned how to think use my own brain when i was young
i went to Hangzhou Western Lake you know we have a Western Lake
there's a hotel many foreign visitors visit there and i went there every
morning five crop to practice my English the foreign visitors come
I practice my English I don't know why at that time but i found everything
the foreign visitors told me are so different from the things my parents
told me my teacher told me and the newspaper read so things then I think
everything use my own brain to think about it is that true is that
opportunity site is there anything i can do that make the difference
think about this and then when you think about this study do it
I saw a lot of people young people have a fantastic ideas every evening
but in the morning they go to the office thing again make the move
make the action to everybody to any person tomorrow is a new and believe one
thing that is also another last advice i want to give you
they have to work very hard right either work for the others or work for yourself
and i choose the way working my for myself that working for myself
that means working for the society if you really want to work for yourself
think about the others that they d t time making sure you help others because
only when the other half other people successful when the other people happy
you'll be successful you will be happy thank you very much