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It was 1994. Jack Ma, an English teacher from Hangzhou, China, heard about the Internet and managed to fly to the US to experience it by himself. In 1995 Jack started his own website development company. In 1999 he created <a href="http://www.alibaba.com" target="_blank">Alibaba</a>, a business-to-business marketplace connecting Western businesses to Chinese manufactureres.