KFC hired 23 of 24 applicants in Jack Ma's city. He was the 1 rejection. He later ran a $25 billion IPO. The clip is Ma at Davos, 2015, reading out his rejection resume with a grin. Harvard: applied 10 times, rejected 10 times. The police: 5 classmates applied, 4 got in. His rejection came with a review: "you're no good." KFC arrives in his city: 24 apply, 23 hired. He's the leftover, again. Even the future disagreed with him. In 1996 he pitched internet businesses door to door in Hangzhou and got called a con man. In 1999 he gathered 17 friends in his apartment and founded Alibaba on $60,000 of pooled savings. In 2014 it listed in New York at $25 billion, the largest IPO in history at the time. His English-teacher salary had been $12 a month. His Davos advice from the pile of rejections: get used to it, the no's are training. Then the sequel proved him right again. A 2020 speech criticizing regulators cost him the $317 billion Ant listing, and he vanished from public view for months. Rejected by KFC, erased by Beijing. Still worth $25 billion. Every door closed on him once. He owns the building now.