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A Brief History of Alibaba Founders

carlsborg 8y ago
He was 35, and it was peak of cycle/just before the dot com crash.
netsharc 8y ago
I remember watching this documentary made by their (American) VP of marketing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7i825QzKB8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7i825QzKB8, chronicling their origins and their fight with eBay.
- dmix 8y 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 8y 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).
nullnilvoid 8y 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 8y ago
  Aliababa was almost like pyramid selling in the beginning tbh.
Bucephalus355 8y 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 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.
- chenster 8y ago
  Even I wanted to believe it is all true, how credible is the source that is apparently from the anonymous Blogspot post?
  - jayalpha 8y ago
    https://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2015/10/alibaba-yeah-right-jack.html https://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2015/10/alibaba-yeah-righ... https://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2015/09/job-interview-questions-size-and-scope.html https://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2015/09/job-interview-que...

He was 35, and it was peak of cycle/just before the dot com crash.

I remember watching this documentary made by their (American) VP of marketing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7i825QzKB8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7i825QzKB8, chronicling their origins and their fight with eBay.

dmix 8y 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 8y 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).

nullnilvoid 8y 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 8y ago
Aliababa was almost like pyramid selling in the beginning tbh.

Bucephalus355 8y 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 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.

chenster 8y ago
Even I wanted to believe it is all true, how credible is the source that is apparently from the anonymous Blogspot post?
- jayalpha 8y ago
  https://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2015/10/alibaba-yeah-right-jack.html https://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2015/10/alibaba-yeah-righ... https://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2015/09/job-interview-questions-size-and-scope.html https://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2015/09/job-interview-que...