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The meeting between Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba, and Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo, is a compelling tale of serendipity and strategic foresight that signif...
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Apr 15, 2021 · China’s most outspoken billionaire has gone silent. No one has seen Jack Ma at the business school he founded. Nor at his tai chi studio.
Apr 11, 2016 · The Yahoo-Alibaba deal originated in a May 2005 meeting between Jack Ma and Jerry Yang at the Pebble Beach golf course in California. Before a steak-and-seafood dinner with other tech...
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- Can Businesses Grow in China Autonomous from The Government?
- What Can British Businesses Learn from Your Book Or from Ma’s Success?
My China adventure started when Morgan Stanley transferred me from London to Hong Kong back in 1993. As an investment banker working on telecom transactions across Asia, I was intrigued by the PRC – a telecom market of which almost nothing was known. There were only 200,000 mobile phones in the entire country when I moved to Beijing in the summer o...
I met Jack in the summer of 1999 in the small apartment in Hangzhou where he, his wife and sixteen co-founders had launched Alibaba a few months earlier. We hit it off, he talked a big game but was amusing company and oddly convincing. From that point on I enjoyed making regular trips to Hangzhou. Jack and I ended up as fellow speakers on China’s b...
Meeting Jack today is not like meeting him back in 1999. Although he remains extremely engaging and down-to-earth, as one of China’s most recognisable figures he is of course often surrounded by a crush of people seeking to do deals or snap selfies with him. I’ve seen Jack regularly over the years as his company, audience and fame grew, crossing pa...
True, if you’re talking about a figure with whom many people in the West – and indeed in developing economies – can identify. Perhaps we project our hopes and aspirations for a China that is more like the rest of the world on to figures like Jack, who stands out as one of the most accessible given his background as an English teacher and his gift o...
As one of China’s richest people, not surprisingly Jack has a huge following at home, especially among the country’s youth, who see his story as a get rich quick inspiration. But as I detail in the book, Jack experienced many challenges and failures along the way. Jack is also quick to point out the burdens of great wealth, and the responsibility h...
I would say when talking about the Chinese government “there is no they there”. It comprises many different formal entities and informal interest groups and factional alliances. Jack likes to joke that business people should “fall in love with the government, but never marry it.” I joke in the book that if he was to marry the government he would be...
Businesses that try to go entirely as a result of government patronage are bound to fail. But in many sectors, ignoring the government entirely is neither possible nor advisable. The trick is to respect the government, but not be beholden to it.
In one phrase: know your customer. Just like Jeff Bezos at Amazon, Jack has always maintained a relentless focus on serving the customer first. For British companies seeking to win in China, getting as close as possible to the local market is essential. This often will mean picking the right local partner and backing them to the hilt, not something...
Jack Ma and Jerry Yang. Jack and Jerry knew each other in 1997, when Jack was working for CIECC. Jack was invited to join Yahoo after leaving CIECC, but he refused. Two years later, Alibaba was founded.
Sep 6, 2014 · But Mr. Ma wanted to maintain control and opened talks with Jerry Yang, a co-founder of Yahoo, who was searching for new opportunities in China, according to people involved in the negotiations.
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Jan 28, 2021 · Alibaba's co-founder Jack Ma recently made his first public appearance since October via a video meeting. However, there has been no explanation given for his whereabouts in the past three months.
