Mr. Jack Ma, Lead Founder & Executive Chairman of the world's leading e-commerce company, Alibaba Group, visited Tel Aviv University as a recipient of an honorary doctorate. Prior to the honorary degrees ceremony, Mr. Ma held an inspirational conversation with hundreds of TAU students and alumni, among them young entrepreneurs, hosted by Mr. Amnon Dick, President of the Israeli Friends Association of Tel Aviv University.
That digital economy can enable 100 Million jobs for the world we can enable 2 billion population in the world they Can shop and buy everywhere and they can? We can create 10 million small business They can be profitable through the Internet that was the vision I don't Know in my life can achieve that but Somebody will achieve it if we continue To do it if we cannot reach have in 10 Years why not 20 years why not 30 years People should continue to do it and Somebody someday if somebody really Reached that with your very proud [Applause] Should I you oh yeah thank you there's Tea by the way there's the team you like Is here on the table we are in Israel The startup nation any Tel Aviv ranked As the word fifth most innovative city You have encountered Israeli investors Okay it's a short visit you've met a lot Of startup it's you met business people Could you relate to the Israeli Business? Spirit or our position in the global our Position in the global tech arena yeah Do you have any plans of a flag of? Alibaba Intelligent in Israel in Tel Aviv Absolutely we we've been thinking Internally we discuss a lot about where In this world Alibaba should have our face labs that That should have out people there Working together to reach because the Fifth largest economy does not belong to Us blood does not belong to Jack Ma and It’s a belongs to the the generation of This this generation belong to the world Belong to all the young people believe In the future belong to the people who Believe the technology enable people so One of the three countries we talk about Is Israel
That digital economy can enable 100 Million jobs for the world we can enable 2 billion population in the world they Can shop and buy everywhere and they can? We can create 10 million small business They can be profitable through the Internet that was the vision I don't Know in my life can achieve that but Somebody will achieve it if we continue To do it if we cannot reach have in 10 Years why not 20 years why not 30 years People should continue to do it and Somebody someday if somebody really Reached that with your very proud [Applause] Should I you oh yeah thank you there's Tea by the way there's the team you like Is here on the table we are in Israel The startup nation any Tel Aviv ranked As the word fifth most innovative city You have encountered Israeli investors Okay it's a short visit you've met a lot Of startup it's you met business people Could you relate to the Israeli Business? Spirit or our position in the global our Position in the global tech arena yeah Do you have any plans of a flag of? Alibaba Intelligent in Israel in Tel Aviv Absolutely we we've been thinking Internally we discuss a lot about where In this world Alibaba should have our face labs that That should have out people there Working together to reach because the Fifth largest economy does not belong to Us blood does not belong to Jack Ma and It’s a belongs to the the generation of This this generation belong to the world Belong to all the young people believe In the future belong to the people who Believe the technology enable people so One of the three countries we talk about Is Israel
So we all talk about we should come to Israel have a lab and inviting the Excellent smash the young people in Israel join the force together let's Build up an economy that can empower Young people small business and women so This is we think and that and actually We have already invested the five Companies here and we only have 12 People here so this trip we brought Almost a 40 Alibaba senior management E-40 heroes now the thieves we came Together we learned we experienced and We feel it everybody is so excited in The past two three days every night with We debate with discuss with sure until 11:30 last night we 11:45 we think we Can do a lot of things here and I think We’ll continue to investigate we were Joined together with joining the force Of the venture capitalist to encourage More startups and we would love to hire More people here together Buuuut the fifth largest economy it's Not the fifth largest economy does not Belong to Jack Ma that's not even belong To China belongs to our generation That’s one thing that's let us take some Questions from the students let's start With Miss Faye ruse with Scala she's From Israel student of Eastern Asian Studies Faculty of humanities Fairuz Please great very honored to be here and To be the first person to ask question As said I am a student of East Asian Studies in Chinese and also business Management here in tel aviv university So therefore i decided today to ask my Question both in Chinese and in English Good so it's an opportunity for me to Try my Chinese
So I'll start with the Chinese version New Jean Channing gave me and Ching Ron's Way OG Otsu the je geniusu Shama which Is what is the most valuable? Professional advice you can give to Young people today I think everybody's made in a unique and Different so you you must have a unique And different way a lot of people today Have a lot of complaints say I don't Have opportunity I complain a lot when I Was young and suddenly realized Complaint does not solve any problem Where the opportunity always in the Place where people complain there are so Many if there are so many opportunities In the world in this world because there Are so many complaints if you can solve The complaint one of the complaints That’s the opportunity so this is what We we made I think young people if my Advice to be an entrepreneur don't be Scared of failure of setbacks and don't Give up there people there are a lot of Books written about Alibaba about me Which I'm scared of well one day I was Reading on Hyundai on a plane that's Many years ago in the newspaper I was Reading a guy introducing a got very Great and finally thing people are Talking about me no that's not me it was It was an article about a great person And then finally I find out they are Talking about me I'm not that great That’s not me right I want to say is That if there is a book I want to write Is all about 1001 mistakes we came today To down we made it so many mistakes People say you are lucky yes we are very Lucky were the only 19 years to today Size but we gone through so many tough Situations we made so many mistakes that People cannot even imagine probably 90 Years just like Israel for 70 years your Country grow from nothing to today you Have gone through so many tough Experience and that will make you Different
My next student is Miss Cheng she's a Student from China studying here in Tel Aviv University an A in archaeology by The way you’re Chinese very good good Evening Mr. Mun is a great honor to have You here and you know Taobao means a lot For Chinese overseas a student Especially in Israel so my my question Is if you could magically meet anyone From the past who does that be thank you?
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