Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built Contributor(s): Clark, Duncan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0062413414 ISBN-13: 9780062413413 Publisher: Ecco Press OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Corporate & Business History - General - Business & Economics | E-commerce - General (see Also Computers - Electronic Commerce) - Biography & Autobiography | Business |
Dewey: 381.142 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.50 lbs) 304 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 21st Century - Cultural Region - Chinese |
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Publisher Description: In just a decade and half Jack Ma, a man who rose from humble beginnings and started his career as an English teacher, founded and built Alibaba into the second largest Internet company in the world. The company's $25 billion IPO in 2014 was the world's largest, valuing the company more than Facebook or Coca Cola. Alibaba today runs the e-commerce services that hundreds of millions of Chinese consumers depend on every day, providing employment and income for tens of millions more. A Rockefeller of his age, Jack has become an icon for the country's booming private sector, and as the face of the new, consumerist China is courted by heads of state and CEOs from around the world. |
Contributor Bio(s): Clark, Duncan: - Duncan Clark, a former Morgan Stanley investment banker and fluent Mandarin speaker, has lived and worked in China for more than twenty years. He heads a team of more than one hundred at BDA China, the investment advisory firm he founded in Beijing in 1994. An expert on China's Internet sector, Clark is a former visiting scholar at Stanford University, where he welcomed Jack Ma on stage as a keynote speaker, along with the leaders of other leading China Internet firms including Baidu, Sina, and Tencent. |