Visionary

Jack Ma

Visionary refer to whom can envision the future. In extension, a visionary can also be a person with distinctive and have specify their vision of the future.

When mentioned about visionary, I linked it to Jack Ma. He not only is the founder of Alibaba Group Holding Limited but also the executive chairman of the group. Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese based e-commerce company, mainly are consumer-to-consumer business(portal Taobao, similar to eBay.com), business-to-consumer and business-to-business sales services. (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc, 2016).

In 1994, Ma heard about the Internet. He never written a line of code and never do sales to the customer before this and the first time he start to acquire computer at the age of 33. Start from year 1995, he went to the United States and with his friends', during that time, he got know about Internet. He search the word “beer" but find none information from China but many other countries have a lot of information related to the word “beer”. He and his friend decided to set up an "ugly" website which related to China. He had received emails within five hours after he set up the website from ethnic Chinese say that wishing to know about him. At the same time, Ma found that the Internet able to offer something excellently (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc, 2016).

Jack Ma’s successful formula stated that be a visionary not a technocrat. The executive coach, Jeremy Kourdi said in The New Economy Video that Jack Ma is a man of great vision. He impressed with the story of him met up 18 people of his friends and sharing about his vision for two hours. His vision was flowing out of him for two hours and finally he able to start Alibaba group with the money (The New Economy, 2015).