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How the fuck did this nigga get rich?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ma
>spend 9 years talking to foreigners in a hotel
>took him four years to get into college for a english degree
>applied for 30 different jobs and got rejected by all
>"even went to KFC when it came to my city. Twenty-four people went for the job. Twenty-three were accepted. I was the only guy ...". In addition he applied 10 times for Harvard and got rejected

Here comes the stuff that made him rich
>1994, Mr. Ma heard about the Internet. In early 1995, he went to the US and with his friends' help he got introduced to the Internet.
>During his first encounter he searched the word "beer" but didn't find anything about china
>So he and his friend created an "ugly" website related to China. Within five hours of creating the website he had received emails from some Chinese wishing to know about him
>This is when Ma realized that the Internet had something great to offer. In April 1995,Mr. Ma went around, asked for USD 20,000, and started his first company
>Their company was dedicated to creating websites for companies. Within three years, his company had made USD 800,000
>Ma began building websites for Chinese companies with the help of friends in the US. He has said that "the day we got connected to the Web, I invited friends and TV people over to my house," and on a very slow dial-up 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 Internet existed."
>At a conference in 2010, Ma revealed that he has never actually written a line of code nor made one sale to a customer. He acquired a computer for the first time at the age of 33

What the fuck did he do then? Literally just being the guy providing chinese customers? He's the 33th most rich and 30th most powerful person in the world according to forbes despite sounding like an autistic loser.