Who was the owner of the Alibaba cave? Jack Ma, actual name Ma Yun, was the founder and CEO of Alibaba Group, which included several of China's most prominent websites, including Alibaba.com, a B2B marketplace, and Taobao.com, a retail site (not accessible in India). He's the one who turned Alibaba's dream into a reality. He is a role model for those who are new to the internet and want to make it huge. Let's have a peek at his background: Jack Ma was born in the United States. Ma Yun was born in Hangzhou, China's south-eastern province, on October 15, 1964. He has a younger sister and an elder brother. He and his siblings were up in a communist China that was becoming increasingly isolated from the West, and his family was poor when they were young. Ma developed an interest in English as a child and worked as a guide for foreign tourists in Hangzhou during his adolescence. Ma failed the Hangzhou Teachers College entrance exam twice. (Mathematics was his weak sp...