In the year 1999, with the help of more than a dozen friends who pooled their resources - some $60,000 - Jack Ma, founded Alibaba, a business-to-business online platform. No one at that time would have thought a small start-up would initiate the worlds largest initial public offering (IPO) on Wall Street, earning higher profits than those of interational giants like A and eBay combined. 1999年，数位朋友集资6万美元，帮助马云创建了阿里巴巴一个B2B的在线交易平台。当时，没有人会想到这家刚起步的小公司会在华尔街上市，并且融资额超过亚马逊，eBay等国际巨头，创下美国市场最大
