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Alibaba Chair Joe Tsai on Mistakes & Correcting Course
I react to and discuss part of a recent interview with Alibaba co-founder & Chair Joe Tsai, conducted by Norges Bank Investment Management. In this part, Joe Tsai discusses starting out as an investor before co-founding Alibaba, meeting Jack Ma, scaling Alibaba, falling behind the increasingly intense competition in China, acknowledging mistakes, and recently reorganising Alibaba to course correct. Alibaba stock ticker: BABA.
See below timestamps:
00:36 Starting as an investor
01:48 Meeting Jack Ma at startup Alibaba
04:27 Monetizing and scaling Alibaba with Jack Ma
07:33 Falling behind the…
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