The Person I Admire Most The person I admire most is Jack Ma -  the founder and executive chairman of China's largest e-commerce business, Alibaba Group. Jack Ma succeeded in taking Alibaba Group to the biggest IPO(Initial Public Offerings) in US. I particularly admire him for starting out as an English teacher earlier in his life with no technical background, but great foresight, ambition, and determination. You are never going to believe this but Jack was a former English teacher by training. He discovered the internet on a trip to America when a friend showed him a computer and told him to type something in to a web directory. He typed in the word BEER, and realized that there is a wealth of information on American Beer, German Beer, beer from many different countries but nothing on Chinese beer. This is the inception point for shifting his career into technology, into internet. He foresaw the unlimited possibility in internet in China and determined to founder Alibaba. He set out ambitious long-term goals from the beginning. He said early on that he wanted to build one of the top ten websites in the world, one which would serve all business people. He wanted to build a company that would last 103 years and span 3 centuries.(His comany began in 1999) Then the rest thing is persistence. When they were facing many difficulties such as unemployment, finance dificiency at the early stage, when the future was uncertain to ups and downs at the company's growing stage, he just focused on his dream, chased it, persisted in it and never gave up. My main learning from watching Jack is that sometimes those ideals of defining a long-time vision really do come true when you stick to it.