我还记得,当我们尝试帮助小公司在网络上销售产品,但是没有人愿意来,因为还没有人在网络上买东西。所以在第一周,我们的7个员工自己去买,自己去卖。到了第二周,有人开始在我们的平台上卖东西,我们买光了他出售的所有商品。我们有两个房间,堆满了我们那两个星期买的东西,而且是没有什么用的东西。这只是为了告诉大家互联网是行得通的,但这并不容易。1995年到1999年这期间,我们的创业失败了,没有一样条件是成熟的。
I remember when we tried to help our small business to sell online. Nobody want to sellbecause nobody come to buy. So first week we have seven employees, we buy and sell ourselves. The second week somebody start to sell on a website. We buy everything they sell. We have two rooms full of things we bought for New Year’s, [all garbage] for the first two weeks. In order to tell people that it works. It was not easy. Since 1995 to 1999 we failed. We go nowhere, our business, because nothing was ready.
到了1999年,我邀请18个好友到家里,我们决定再一次尝试,并且把网站命名为alibaba.com。人们问为什么叫阿里巴巴?我们希望互联网就如同一个宝库,可以让小企业芝麻开门。另外,这个名字容易拼写,也朗朗上口。我们想做的事情,是帮助小企业。
In 1999 I invited 18 friends of mine who came to my apartment. We decided to do it again. We call the name alibaba.com. And people say why Alibaba? We believe Internet is a treasure island which opens sesame for small business. And we used Alibaba because it’s easy to spell, easy to remember. And we want to focus on helping small business.
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