[1][2] Despite the early use of "university" as a suffix, the enterprise is never accredited or registered as an educational institution.
[9] This organization has 8 co-founders including Jack Ma, Feng Lun, Guo Guangchang, Shi Yuzhu, Shen Guojun, Qian Yingyi, Cai Hongbin and Shao Xiaofeng.
[10] Ma took the name Hupan, which means “lakeside,” from the apartment he lived in when he co-founded Alibaba in 1999.
Lakeside Gardens is where the first 18 Alibaba employees worked together in the company’s early days.
The organization announced it would restructure, including changing its name to Zhejiang Hupan Entrepreneurship Research Center and disassociating itself from Ma.