Ma yun, born September 10, 1964 is the founder, chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group. He is formally an English teacher at Hangzhou Teachers College.Ma was born in the city of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. Ma attended Hangzhou Teachers College and graduated in 1988 with a bachelor's degree in English. Ma initially failed the entrance exam twice. While at the school, Ma was elected student chairman.[3] He later became a lecturer in English and International Trade at the Hangzhou Dianzi University. Ma first started building websites for Chinese companies with the help of friends in the US. In 1995, Ma founded China Yellowpages, widely believed to be China’s first Internet-based company. From 1998 to 1999, Ma headed an information technology company established by the China International Electronic Commerce Center, a department of Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation. He founded Alibaba.com in 1999, a China-based business-to-business marketplace site which serves more than 65 million members from more than 240 countries and territories. Ma now serves as chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group, which is a holding company with six major subsidiaries. 馬云，生于1964年9月10日，阿里巴巴集團創始人，董事長和首席執行官。他是出生于浙江省杭州市，1988年畢業于杭州師范學院，獲英語學士學位。馬最初兩次高考失敗。在校期間，馬云當選學生會長。后來，他成為了杭州電子科技大學的講師，教授英語和國際貿易。馬云在美國的朋友幫助下為中國企業建設網站。 1995年，馬云創辦中國黃頁，被廣泛認為是中國第一家互聯網公司。從1998年到1999年，由中國國際電子商務中心成立了以馬云為首的一家信息技術公司，作為對外貿易經濟合作部的一個部門。他于1999年創立阿里巴巴，這是一個基于一個中國企業對企業市場的網站，為來自240多個國家和地區的超過65萬會員服務。馬云現在擔任阿里巴巴集團董事長和首席執行官，該集團控股公司下設六個主要附屬子公司。