I never dreamed I could build a $100 million company. I just happened to build a $1 million company that became a $5 million company, and so on.
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I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.
I had dreams about working for a big foreign company.
I built a great company, one of the - some of the most iconic assets in the world, $10 billion of net worth, more than $10 billion of net worth, and frankly, I had a great time doing it.
I wanted to create a multibillion dollar company that lets me go out and let us go out and change the world and create a Skin Cancer Awareness Center that costs a quarter a billion dollars.
I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurred to me that anything like this could have been possible. I didn't have any such aspirations. And I still can't believe my good fortune.
I saved $8,000 and created a construction company when I was 25.
You cannot exist as a $20 billion company with speculation.
I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.
My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and spoke to them for two hours about my vision. Everyone put their money on the table, and that got us $60,000 to start Alibaba. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name.