Cloud Computing: Meet Alibaba’s Jack Ma – The Steve Jobs Of China Is Just Getting Started
January 24, 2015
Grazed from HuffingtonPost. Author: Matt Sheehan.
A year ago, few outside of China knew the name Jack Ma. Today, he’s the most sought after man at Davos. The founder and face of Alibaba Group, “the Steve Jobs of China,” the richest man in Asia — Ma’s appellations are as numerous as the industries he is conquering.
Alibaba Group is a sprawling Internet empire that took on some of America’s leading online titans — and won. Its consumer-to-consumer platform (Taobao) routed then-goliath Ebay, and its business-to-consumer megastore (Tmall.com) dominates Amazon. Alibaba has ventured into mobile payments, cloud computing, social media, and is now testing streaming international content. The company is second only to Walmart in global transactions, and its $25 billion initial public stock offering last fall was the largest in history…
On Friday, Ma sat down with Charlie Rose at the World Economic Forum for a conversation that ranged from Ma’s rejection from a job at KFC to his philosophy in dealing with the Chinese government…
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