<p>The billionaire revelation can change your own attitude to work and business.<br />When Jack Ma, the general director of Alibaba, was just starting his career path, Gates was rather a source of frustration for him. “When I was young, I hated Bill Gates. I was sure that Microsoft takes away all the opportunities from aspiring businessmen. In the same way, I applied to such giants as IBM and Oracle,” Ma admitted, speaking at a summit on innovation issues in Tel Aviv.</p><p>When Ma just founded Alibaba in 1999, prices set by giant companies were a barrier to start-ups on the path to technology. Among the developing enterprises was his tiny firm at the time, trying to assert itself in the field of e-commerce.</p><p>But soon, Ma realized that the cause of the difficulties that arose was not at all in Gates and not in other well-known entrepreneurs, but in himself. “I became an obstacle to the realization of my own capabilities, constantly finding excuses instead of solving problems,” said the founder of Alibaba. - People spend time complaining. The bottom line is to stop complaining and start acting. ”</p><p>Ma's idea was to create a simpler, cheaper technology that was used in Alibaba, as well as in other small companies. “The established prices turned out to be too high for us, which is why we began to invent something of our own,” says Ma. “We had to develop simpler technology — that’s the whole secret of success.”</p><p>Indeed, most innovative ideas come to people “not because they want it, but because they have to invent something,” Ma said.</p><p>Almost two decades have passed since then, and Ma has established close relations with Gates. Now he often refers to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as an inspiration for his own charitable endeavors.</p><p>Nevertheless, healthy competition between Alibaba and Microsoft has not gone away. Last month, when Ma announced his decision to resign as head of the company, he said: “I can never be as rich as Bill Gates, but in one thing I definitely did better than him. I was able to retire much earlier.”</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="https://fomag.ru">Source</a></p>