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e entranceexams. On the third try, he was admitted to the languages program at the local university,after which he began a career teaching high school English. But along the way, the entrepreneurial bug bit. He launched a translation service and washired by an American businessman, who was bankrolling construction of a local highway, totranslate negotiations with Chinese municipal authorities. Part of the dealmaking called for himto travel to Las Vegas to meet some investors, and it was there, in 1995, that he first heard theword amp。quot。Internet.amp。quot。 He then travelled on his own to Seattle to visit VPN, a small Internet serviceprovider with five employees. There he got his first look at the technology that would, within adecade, make him one of the most influential entrepreneurs in the world. Fee or Free? A key to his success, Mr. Ma said, was having a business model so simple that any customercould instantly understand it. Unlike eBay, which has a sliding scale of fees, plus missionif the item sells, charges nothing for up to 50 product listings. amp。quot。Chinese SMEs[small and medium enterprises] want to sell their product