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ed that The day we got connected to the Web, I invited friends and TV people over to my house, and on a very slow dialup connection, we waited three and a half hours and got half a page.... We drank, watched TV and played cards, waiting. But I was so proud. I proved (to my house guests that) the Inter existed[original research?] ? In 1995, Ma founded China Pages, widely believed to be China’s first Interbased pany. From 1998 to 1999, Ma headed an information technology pany established by the China International Electronic Commerce Center, a department of Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation. He founded in 1999, a Chinabased businesstobusiness marketplace site which serves more than 50 million members from more than 240 countries and territories. Ma now serves as chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group, which is a holding pany with five major subsidiaries— 。 Taobao, Alipay, Alibaba Cloud Computing and China Yahoo!. Like many entrepreneurs, Ma39。s success story started with borrowed capital and a dream. In 1999, Ma, a former English teac