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How Jin Li turned Alibaba into a cloud giant
In this episode, Lucas and Luna examine how Jin Li transformed Alibaba Cloud from a technical experiment into the dominant Chinese cloud provider and a global rival to AWS. They trace key decisions: the 2013 bet on self-developed infrastructure over open-source, the aggressive pricing war that undercut Tencent and Huawei, and Jin Li's insistence on cloud-first culture inside Alibaba itself. They also discuss the long-term bet on AI infrastructure — warehouses of NVIDIA chips pre-ordered years in advance — and what it says about China's cloud strategy going into 2026. A focused look…
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