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Jack Ma

Holly Wood, Veronica Cevallos,

Renato Segatto, Adriel Reyes
Social Media
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Overview

 Early Life

 Alibaba Company

 Current Status

 Future
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Early Life

 Born on October 15, 1964 as Ma Yun in Hangzhou

 He became a tour guide and would trade tours for English

lessons

 He saw education as his ticket to success.

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Early Life

 After applying to several jobs, he finally got hired by a nearby

university as an English teacher!

 1995: First trip to the US and first experience with the Internet,
after that he was determined to make a Chinese internet
company.

 Four years and two failures later, he persuaded 17 of his

friends to invest in his plan for “Alibaba”
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Alibaba in China

 Alibaba has become one of the biggest marketing company in

China.

 This company wants to compete with foreign countries.

 Jack Ma founder of Alibaba said “My vision is to build an e-

commerce system”.

 He wants to create one million jobs to change China’s Social

economic environment.
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Alibaba

 Alibaba has a unique fun culture environment for employees.

 Employees participate in a talent show annually.

 They cherish brotherhood, morality, courage emotion and

conscience.

 Jack Ma believes that is not about the money but to help

China’s development.
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Current Status

 Close knit partners

 Interconnected

 Important Roles
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Current Status

 Worth

 Improvement

 Growth

 Drones
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Future - Executing the Global
Strategy

 Alibaba is currently discussing a deal with an Indian Internet

Firm One97 Communications
 $575 Million Dollar investment
 Mobile payment system called Paytm
 Over 25 Million registered users
 High-profile clients include UBER, Expedia, and Airbnb

 Jack Ma believes that economically, India is very similar to

China 5-10 years ago. Expects success in India to replicate the
success in China.

 Alibaba currently owns 80% of China’s e Commerce Market

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Expansion in the US

 Alibaba has shown interest in  Ebay Rumors - Buying a major US

entering the US market company will expedite Alibaba’s
growth.
 Launched shopping site 11Main.com
 Alibaba’s acquisition of a US
 Investments in US startups company will help polish its brand
 Lyft and allow them to adapt to US
 Tango culture.
 ShopRunner  Acquisition over Competition

 E-Commerce experts believe these

investments are pointing in the
direction of an acquisition of a big
US e Commerce Company.
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Summary

 Early Life

 Alibaba Company

 Current Status

 Future
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Works Cited

 http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/09/07/business/jack-
ma-and-alibabas-circle-of-friends.html?_r=1

 http://www.forbes.com/profile/jack-ma/

 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-11/alibaba-
isn-t-too-big-to-fail-jack-ma-tells-regulator

 Knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu

 www.cnbc.com/id/102335658

 http://www.businessinsider.com/the-inspiring-life-story-of-
alibaba-founder-jack-ma-2014-10?op=1