A Brief History of Alibaba Founders

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78 points | by gwendolynregina 2039 days ago

4 comments

  • nullnilvoid 2039 days ago
    One thing that stands out is that Alibaba has 18 founders. It is almost unheard of in the west. Jack Ma is a true legend. He has a humble background and failed college entrance exam three times before being accepted into an ordinary school (Gates and Jobs entered school without much a problem).
    • est 2039 days ago
      Aliababa was almost like pyramid selling in the beginning tbh.
  • netsharc 2039 days ago
    I remember watching this documentary made by their (American) VP of marketing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7i825QzKB8, chronicling their origins and their fight with eBay.
    • dmix 2039 days ago
      Jack Ma started off teaching english for $12/month? Ha. Interesting doc so far, a bit quirky/low budget but interesting...

      Do you know what year this was made?

      • netsharc 2039 days ago
        If you google "Crocodile in the Yangtze", it says released in 2012. The trailer has better video quality, my YouTube link is most probably pirated (and they added the Chinese subtitles, which means re-encoding).
  • Bucephalus355 2039 days ago
    Worth pointing out that this blog, somewhat well followed in investment circles, claims 90% of Alibaba’s revenue, at least since the 2014 financial reports, is completely fraudulent: https://deep-throat-ipo.blogspot.com

    They are doing the old Enron trick of creating hundreds of shell subsidies (over 900 at this point...many of which don’t even have a website or more than a single corporate officer / employee) to hide the debt.

  • carlsborg 2039 days ago
    He was 35, and it was peak of cycle/just before the dot com crash.