An e-commerce pioneer, which billionaire founder learned English as a teenager by offering free tours of his hometown to visiting English speakers?

Talk about determination. Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma was rejected 30 times when trying to land his first job — including at KFC, where he was one of 24 applicants - and the only one not hired. Many years later, his company's record-breaking $25 billion IPO turned the Hangzhou native into one of the world's richest people.

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