Jack Ma used to teach English before founding Alibaba
During a US field trip in 1995, then-English teacher Jack Ma was introduced to the internet, where his first search was 'beer'. Finding no entries for Chinese beer, Ma searched for 'China' which gave no results either. Ma then launched 'chinapages.com' that was acquired in 1996. He later co-founded Alibaba in 1999 and went on to become China's richest person.