Alibaba

Jack Ma was a guy from humble roots, who began his career as an English teacher and ended up being the creator of one of the biggest companies in the world, Alibaba. Alibaba’s $25 billion initial public offerings (IPO) in 2014, the world’s largest ever, made Jack a Rockefeller of his generation. Jack is an emblem for China’s burgeoning private sector and the gatekeeper to hundreds of millions of middle-class customers. He is a symbol of China’s booming e-commerce industry, which has created 400 million jobs and made China the leading business to consumer market. Duncan Clark met Jack in the little flat where he established Alibaba in 1999. Clark draws on his own experience as an early advisor to Alibaba and two decades in China chronicling the Internet’s impact on the country to create an authoritative, compelling narrative account of Alibaba’s rise, with unprecedented access to a wealth of new material, including exclusive interviews.