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We keep our dreams, we believe it,
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no matter how big your dream is make small tiny steps ahead.
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When I graduated from University
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and before, you know, for 3 years I tried fully into the universities.
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So applied jobs,
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30 times, got rejected.
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I went for police, they said no you are not good.
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I applied for Harvard, for 10 times, rejected.
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Today young people, lot of young people lose hope,
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lose vision and start to complain.
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We also have the same problem
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It is not a good feeling to be rejected by so many people.
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We also feel depressed.
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But at least later we find the world has a lot opportunities.
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How you see the world? How you catch the opportunity?
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we don't have a rich father,
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powerful uncle, we don't get 1 dollar from bank,
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Where is the income coming in?
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Just work as a team.
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Because most of the people, they have fancy ideas in a day,
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when they wake up in the morning, they go back to the same job.
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We have to do something different.
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So from there,
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I started my business borrowing 2000 US dollars from my relatives and friends.
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So 1999 I started Alibaba in my apartment.
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People say ah! Alibaba models are terrible,
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does not make money, have this and that all the big bad things,
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because Amazon is better, Ebay is better, Google is better.
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There is no such model like Alibaba in the USA,
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so I told myself and people
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We are better than people thought
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And those people who are experts of riding horses, they all fell down
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and I am still surviving.
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So many people I talked to at that time for Alipay they say,
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this is the stupidest idea you have ever got.
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Now we have 800 million people using this Alipay.
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My advice to the young people, any mistake is a wonderful revenue for you.
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So I taught to myself and I taught to my young people.
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Before 20 years old be a good student,
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way to entrepreneur just learn some experience.
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Before 30 years old follow somebody,
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go to a small company.
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Normally in a big company it is good to learn processing,
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you are a part of a big machine.
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But when you go to small company,
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you will learn the passion, you will learn the dreams,
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you will learn how to do a lot of things at one time.
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So, before 30 years old it is not which company you go,
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it is which boss you follow.
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It is very important.
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A good boss teaches you differently.
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From 30-40 years old you have to think very clear,
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If you are working for yourself,
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if you really want to be an entrepreneur.
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When you are 40-50 years old,
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you have to do all the things that you are good at,
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don't try to look or jump into the new area.
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It is too late.
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You maybe successful but the rate of dying is too big.
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So 40-50 think about
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how you can focus on things that you are good at.
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But when you are 50-60 years old work for the young people
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because young people can do better than you.
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So rely on them, invest on them making sure they are good.
