Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built”
Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built” . As an insider, Duncan details how Jack Ma founded Alibaba as a response to seeing more and more Chinese coming online, and then building it into a global conglomerate. One of the first things that first jumps at you in the book is the sheer volume of daily delivery on Alibaba sites. While Amazon ships 3 million packages a day, Alibaba ships 12 million; almost two-thirds of all parcel deliveries in China. Over 400 million people, more than the population of the United States, make purchases on Alibaba’s websites each year. During the period of its IPO, Alibaba became the most valuable Internet company in the world after Google, its shares worth more than Amazon and eBay combined. Do You Know: On Alibaba, the superrich can browse lists of entire islands for sale in Canada, Fiji, or Greece. How did Jack pull this off? Whatever he did to become a business magnate, it’s to be noted that he failed in his first two businesses. In his first ...