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18 Jul, 15 tweets, 3 min read

Jack Ma, the founder of $BABA, has an amazing friendship story with the Morley family. Without the Morley family, it is highly unlikely that Jack could achieve the success he had achieved with $BABA today. Here is a short thread on one of the most heart warming friendship story.

When Jack was young, every morning, he would showed up at the Hangzhou hotel to be a free tour guide to western tourists because he wanted to practice his English speaking skills.

One day, David Morley, son of the late Ken Morley, an Australian, was playing by himself at West Lake beside the Hangzhou hotel. Jack, spotted David and came up to David and asked if he could play together and practice his English.

The two flick matches together and had a great time. David and Jack later arranged to play Frisbee together the next day. Jack also met Ken, and Jack became friends with the Morley family. Little did Jack know this friendship is going to change his life.

After David went back to Australia, David and Jack became pen pals and started to trade letters with each other regularly. Jack would write his letter in a line and leave a line in blank for Ken to fix Jack's English.

Overtime, Ken became a mentor of Jack and showed him the Western world. When Jack was 21, in 1985, Ken even invited Jack to visit Australia during his summer holiday.

At that time, Jack didn't think that he would be able to leave China because he did not have a passport. However, Ken still encouraged Jack to try, and luckily Jack got his passport after a long 6 months of application.

Little did Jack know that he also need a visa to visit Australia. Jack therefore went to the Australian embassy at Beijing and tried apply for a Visa. Jack was initially rejected for 9 times, and Jack was going to give up.

Fortunately for Jack, he kept on trying, and during the tenth time, a kindhearted worker at the embassy helped Jack, and Jack successfully obtained his visa. Through this experience, Jack learnt that he should never give up, because all things are possible.

Jack then traveled to New Castle of Australia and stayed with the Morley family for 29 days. Jack has later commented that these 29 days in Australia changed his life forever as he started to develop a global view and his eyes was widened.

After his trip, Ken continue to be a big mentor and support to Jack. Although Ken always tell Jack that he is bullshitting, Ken nonetheless always supported Jack. Ken later even helped Jack buy his first apartment in Hangzhou.

Jack later donated 20 million to the New Castle University, which Ken always talks about despite not having a bachelor degree. Jack and the Morley family established the Ma & Morley Scholarship program for Australians in honour of the late Ken Morley who passed away in 2004.

To this day, Jack continues to be inspired by the late Ken Morley to help other young people, even the one who he did not know about, just like how Ken has helped Jack wholeheartedly when they knew each other on the streets.END//

I hope you have enjoyed this short friendship story between Jack Ma, the founder of $BABA, and the Australian Morley family. Above all else, I encourage you, if you can, always offer help to others around you because you never know how big of an impact you would make!

Thank you very much for reading this thread! I hope you all have an awesome day and continue to spread positive vibes around you! God bless!

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