> Basically they have declared management retirement/retrenchment age to 45 with a positive spin of culture etc. I think... this is hardly the case. In the 19

> Basically they have declared management retirement/retrenchment age to 45 with a positive spin of culture etc. I think... this is hardly the case. In the 1990s when Jack Ma got going in a bedroom hand typing listings, China had thin pickings of IT talent. Even today it graduates a lot of people with a working knowledge of C or Java (rarely either/or) but little more. Universities as graduation factories. Alibaba has retained people from the start, instead of buying in and churning management. As the company ages the proportions, ceteris paribus, pushes it older, but it is not ceteris paribus and as the company grows, and has grown, the averages push it younger.