How a Failed Student Made $38 Billion After Being Rejected by KFC

Scrawny and just over 5 feet tall, Ma Yun was always outnumbered.
When he applied for a job with KFC, there were 24 people in the room. He was the only person that went home without an offer.
The rejections didn't stop there. But it helped Ma become the richest man in China with a net worth over $38 billion.
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[Alibaba]
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[Taobao]
www.techinasia.com/were-war-s...
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[Jack Ma]
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This guy got rejected multiple times and now he's a billionaire, now they regret about him.

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hes a billionaire but ok

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If they didn't regret him he probably won't be the same as now

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Nah not reallt he probably wouldn’t be motivated to make a business if he was accepted

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Some guy: *scores 1 out of 120 on a college test* Some guy a few years later: *worth 38 billion dollars*

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It proves you dont need school to be rich

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Zakkary Keith or have fame

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@@zakkarykeith Does that mean everyone should leave school now? No.

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@@scypio8191 but did he say that? No.

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@@zakkarykeith but it obviously helps

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I love how people in my class are like, “I’m gonna drop out and become like *insert famous dropout*”, but give up when when they can’t answer a single question.”

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famous dropouts like bill gates and zuckerberg are HARVARD dropouts. if ur friend isn't on that level and drops out of school, it wouldnt be so easy wont it?

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@@cLOcKgOdtanaka And also, they dropped out because they had made their business in harvard and no longer needed university as they had something that ACTUALLY worked.

[@paradox5434]

There is the top 50 richest person who is a high school drop out to be fair but he had money to help

[@someone4159]

This guy literally creates solutions for problems that he encounters..What a legend

[@ohp1571]

Imagine he came back to the KFC restaurant.

[@grandwonder5858]

The first 3 years I bought things from Aliexpress I paid $0 in shipping fees! I literally bought hundreds of items, from fishing lures to household items, and paid nothing in shipping fees! Meanwhile, over at Ebay and Amazon they were charging more for shipping fees than the prices of many of the goods listed on their sites! I’ve always wondered how the heck companies over in China could offer free shipping, but not the companies in America that sell goods to Americans! Also, back then as early as 1.5 yeas ago, the goods sold on Aliexpress tended to be 10-16 times cheaper than the goods sold on Amazon and Ebay! Why are goods sold in America so much more expensive than goods sold in China? Then I read an article that said by the time an item made its way from China to a typical American store, such as Walmart, that Item has been marked up something like 14-17 times what Walmart originally bought it for! With this fact and all of the aforementioned facts that I had mentioned in mind, is it a wonder why people from across the world would rather buy Chinese goods than American goods? Also, I have been shopping at Aliexpress for over 4 years now, but have never been taken advantage of once! When the sellers at Aliexpress made a mistake all I have do is file a disagreement and every single time Aliexpress sent me my money back to my bank account without a single question asked! When I first started buying stuff from Ebay back in the early 2000’s I had all kinds of problems with merchants not sending the goods to me after I have made the payments to them or they would send me an item that wasn’t the one that they had advertised on the site. Instead they sent me an item that was far inferior and valued at 1/4 of the item that I had paid for! The experiences left me completely giving up shopping at Ebay again until last year when I bought some herbal supplements from Ebay. That’s 18 years I hadn’t shop at Ebay! Granted Ebay has learned its lessons from the past on how to protect its customers, but still for the longest time shopping at American online sites was a dangerous endeavors for consumers and when things went bad it is always the consumers that paid the price! This is completely different from my experience at Aliexpress. I never once have to deal with con artists over at Aliexpress nor do I have to pay ridiculous shipping fees and high prices. And people in America wonder why I always buy my goods from Aliexpress!

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I only knew this dude from his talk with Elon Musk, but after watching this, I kinda respect him. Yeah, he's not the brightest, but he owns up to it and his persistence is admirable. Thanks for another great video! Edit: I re watched the clip, he's just too stupid, I can't XD. But he has a lot of Alibaba intelligence, that's what really counts.

[@losl5216]

Indeed. Not the brightest, but kept on trying.

[@monkey3101]

True.

[@jymnds]

he is the definition of tenacity

[@uraverageteen396]

Look closer, Jack’s english is not that good. He said he didn’t understand half of what Elon was trying to say. What he was saying is that technology cant be human. Humans themselves are on another level compared to humans. Sure they might look the same and act the same, but they are still not 100% human.

[@Sage0016]

@Thawatchai b yap ma is a focused. Person. He does only one thing at a time.

[@AcidGlow]

*Don't reject someone no matter how small their idea is* ✅😀

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[@oofoof6865]

Eh

[@ghosty5548]

He never presented his idea to KFC lol

[@justice1]

I find his story more inspiring than those of other big league entrepreneurs. Becuase he struggled in school and wasn't the smartest, but he made it thanks to working his goal with determination.

[@admin4895]

I don't know who, but someone actually needs to hear this, you've got to stop saving all your money. Venture into investing some, if you really want financial stability

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Invest globally in bitcoin, gold, silver, forex market, commodities. Just don't be left out and save yourself

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Good talk I tell that to my friends everyday. Saving is good investing is much better, I used to think saving would save me but NO, saving is just keeping to spend later.

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@@admin4895 What if you don’t know how to trade any of these?

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@@Joseph-rx1do I mean.... I see your point. Some people have money and are willing to invest but the problem is where to

[@Andre-wl8ck]

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[@changjin0930]

A lot of people think he’s not lucky for being rejected over and over again, but I think otherwise, it’s only because he was lucky that his story got told to millions in the world.

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This guy gets rejected sooo much, but he still becomes successful

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122k now

[@XitsundzuxoHimina]

Ma Yun was always failing, but never stopped 🙆🏾‍♂️🙆🏾‍♂️🙆🏾‍♂️🙆🏾‍♂️ That is a lot tough life 😢😢😢😢

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If you are trying to reach what you want, you never know what greater things you can reach

[@buildyourowntone]

Totally, and I mean totally awe inspiring story about Jack Ma. This was a very good short documentary. I knew of Jack Ma, but now I feel humbled and have an even greater respect for him and his story in life.

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[@grandwonder5858]

The first 3 years I bought things from Aliexpress I paid $0 in shipping fees! I literally bought hundreds of items, from fishing lures to household items, and paid nothing in shipping fees! Meanwhile, over at Ebay and Amazon they were charging more for shipping fees than the prices of many of the goods listed on their sites! I’ve always wondered how the heck companies over in China could offer free shipping, but not the companies in America that sell goods to Americans! Also, back then as early as 1.5 yeas ago, the goods sold on Aliexpress tended to be 10-16 times cheaper than the goods sold on Amazon and Ebay! Why are goods sold in America so much more expensive than goods sold in China? Then I read an article that said by the time an item made its way from China to a typical American store, such as Walmart, that Item has been marked up something like 14-17 times what Walmart originally bought it for! With this fact and all of the aforementioned facts that I had mentioned in mind, is it a wonder why people from across the world would rather buy Chinese goods than American goods? Also, I have been shopping at Aliexpress for over 4 years now, but have never been taken advantage of once! When the sellers at Aliexpress made a mistake all I have do is file a disagreement and every single time Aliexpress sent me my money back to my bank account without a single question asked! When I first started buying stuff from Ebay back in the early 2000’s I had all kinds of problems with merchants not sending the goods to me after I have made the payments to them or they would send me an item that wasn’t the one that they had advertised on the site. Instead they sent me an item that was far inferior and valued at 1/4 of the item that I had paid for! The experiences left me completely giving up shopping at Ebay again until last year when I bought some herbal supplements from Ebay. That’s 18 years I hadn’t shop at Ebay! Granted Ebay has learned its lessons from the past on how to protect its customers, but still for the longest time shopping at American online sites was a dangerous endeavors for consumers and when things went bad it is always the consumers that paid the price! This is completely different from my experience at Aliexpress. I never once have to deal with con artists over at Aliexpress nor do I have to pay ridiculous shipping fees and high prices. And people in America wonder why I always buy my goods from Aliexpress!

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i like this cause it means you dont need to be smart to be a billionaire, just believe very much in your craft, what your passionate about, and in yourself

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I guess this proves if you're persistent enough, you can do great things

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maybe back then, when there was less competition

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They should have worked more on shipping things faster

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Im A developer

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I low-key thought I was watching a skippable ad at the start

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Loving the content. Can’t wait to see you blow up

[@rudypinal5324]

How ironic is this: I got an Alibaba. ad before the video started

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One of the best content creators out there!

[@Caroban]

I am shocked it only got less than a 1000 views I am praying you reach 1mil bytheend of this year

[@MaxCE]

I like his imax screen. Really cool and natural.

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Hold it the internet was popularized in 20 April 1994 in china there is no way people thought it was crazy

[@twilightaesthetic]

When google algorithm spies on you and sends you an Alibaba ad while watching a video of the creation of Alibaba...

[@Novit_]

His smile made my day

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Life seems a gamble but this time after so many fails he won the gamble

[@ryanexx5250]

I got an ad for alibaba before this video I wonder why...

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Wow Alibaba kept it 100 at home first and took that to the world 🤔🤔🤔🤔 That is a lesson and a half 🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@chomihai]

Insane perseverance

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Man has balls of steel

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He was destined to do business, thus got lots of rejections from the job.

[@potatobomb13]

From the 3 ads i got during this video they all had to do with amazon

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Go God Go🙏🏽Making people Strive through the bull

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Man he should give one class in Harvard like he said he would. That would be iconic

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All I can say is WOW!!!!!

[@neoxenoz3262]

While Alibaba dominated chinese e-commerce, Amazon dominated the world.

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Nahhh amazon just dominated north america or europe lol not the world. Even if north america’s population are combined to one, it wouldn’t stand chance with china’s 1.2 b population. Who knows maybe india uses alibaba

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My motivation😇😇

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"Just touch it " play with it how u want "

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Wow that's a lot of rejection

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I like the editing

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You know you got something when ebay try to buy you out. Then they and Amazon shut down

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by far the only dude my father mentioned to me

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*No dreamer is ever too small.*

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Taobao is the place that we are importing phone parts in Greece :p Tmall also is like alibaba, prices are higher of course.

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