Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built

An insider revelation of how one person built a global corporation capable of competing with giants like Walmart and Amazon. In just ten years, Jack Ma, a former English teacher, founded and built Alibaba Group, which today includes: Alibaba.com, Alibaba Pictures, AliExpress.com, Taobao.com, Tmall.com, Alipay, and others. Jack Ma is the 21st‑century Rockefeller—Alibaba’s shares set records in 2014, reaching 25 billion dollars. Here is the story of the company and of Jack himself—an icon of private entrepreneurship and the gatekeeper of millions of consumers from Hangzhou in China to Torzhok in Russia.