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Alibaba
- The House That Jack Ma Built
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Professionals & Academics
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Publisher's Summary
An engrossing insider's account of how a teacher built one of the world's most valuable companies - rivaling Walmart and Amazon - and forever reshaped the global economy.
In just a decade and a half, Jack Ma, a man from modest beginnings who started out as an English teacher, founded Alibaba and built it into one of the world's largest companies, an e-commerce empire on which hundreds of millions of Chinese consumers depend. Alibaba's $25 billion IPO in 2014 was the largest global IPO ever. A Rockefeller of his age who is courted by CEOs and presidents around the world, Jack is an icon for China's booming private sector and the gatekeeper to hundreds of millions of middle-class consumers.
Duncan Clark first met Jack in 1999 in the small apartment where Jack founded Alibaba. Granted unprecedented access to a wealth of new material including exclusive interviews, Clark draws on his own experience as an early advisor to Alibaba and two decades in China chronicling the Internet's impact on the country to create an authoritative, compelling narrative account of Alibaba's rise.
How did Jack overcome his humble origins and early failures to achieve massive success with Alibaba? How did he outsmart rival entrepreneurs from China and Silicon Valley? Can Alibaba maintain its 80 percent market share? As it forges ahead into finance and entertainment, are there limits to Alibaba's ambitions? How does the Chinese government view its rise? Will Alibaba expand further overseas, including in the US?
Clark tells Alibaba's tale in the context of China's momentous economic and social changes, illuminating an unlikely corporate titan as never before.
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- Lemas Bglr
- 26-09-20
Good informational read on Alibaba
Good glimpse on Alibaba and Ma’s philosophy , journey Alibaba went through . Also get to know on dynamics between west and China in the Internet businesses . Good for folks who are not deep into Internet economy . Don’t expect too much detailing .
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- Pramod Amthe
- 01-12-20
insights about China online marketplace
Other than Jack ma entrepreneurial journey discussion, the book provides insight into China online market place evolution.
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- Monkey D. Luffy
- 09-11-20
you can do anything if you want to do it
Loved it no matters how many obstacles get in way to achieve you goal never gave up keep at it.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-11-20
Good!
Quite enjoyed it. Will surely recommend. Very entertaining and inspiring. Jack Ma is a genius.
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- Abhinav Anand
- 13-10-20
Journey of Jack Ma - Interesting Book
This book gives an insight into the travails of an entrepreneur from rock bottom to meteoric rise. Doing business in a country like China has stumped many company who have fallen by the side. This book has packed with inside story of Yahoo and eBay and their experience in this country. It was a good experience listening to this book.
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- Tristan
- 02-09-16
Strange: Best part of story happens "off-screen"
"Alibaba" is a good book despite a near-fatal flaw. The author is an investor and he cares about what investors care about: deal-making, IPO's, threats to valuations, etc. Sometimes he lets that interest overshadow the actual storytelling.
One example is so flagrant it is hilarious. Most of the launch of Alibaba—surely the critical turning point of Jack Ma's life—happens "off-screen." We learn about some deal-making that went into convincing the first employees to join the project. A page or two later we learn about a deal with some early investors, and as a note in that deal Clark mentions Alibaba had by then gained over 250,000 customers. Nothing worth mentioning went into getting their first quarter million customers?
Such moments of early launch play a central role in Isaacson's "Steve Jobs" and Vance's "Elon Musk." In this book, it was left out. The omission leaves a big question open. Clark notes that Ma runs a technology company despite knowing nothing about coding or the internet's machinery . How did he do that? I would like to know. The book skipped over that part.
Clark makes other strange choices. He describes the life story and character of multiple Chinese entrepreneurs and then never returns to them.
And yet, despite all this, it's a good book and it's worth reading. The perspective of an investor on one of the world's highest valued companies is interesting. He appears to do a great job conveying what it's like to do business in China and the history of entrepreneurship in the country. Jack Ma's life makes for a compelling story—despite some of the odd choices in focus.
Should you read Alibaba? Yes. Chinese technology firms are starting to overtake silicon valley ones in a number of arenas. It's a good idea to understand what they are all about, and it's a fun book to do it with. Just join me at rolling your eyes at Clark's investor-myopia.
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- James Qiu
- 27-07-16
Mispronunciation kills me
While the story is amazing, the obvious lack of effort in correct Chinese pronunciation hurts my ears and takes away so much from the book.
This performance is so vastly different from the likes of "Chaos Monkeys" in which the reader eloquently pronounced various Italian and French phrases.
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- David Yulo
- 11-04-18
Narrator ruined it for me
Is there anything you would change about this book?
Get a narrator who can actually correctly pronounce the Chinese words.
What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?
The further I listened to the audiobook, the more frustrated I got because the narrator kept reading the Chinese words in the "American way". You'd think with Amazon's resources, they could at least get someone who can pronounce Chinese words correctly. With a book centered around the development and rise of a Chinese technopreneur and a Chinese company with more than a dozen Chinese names and terms, all the mispronounced words made a profoundly negative impact on my listening experience. I myself am not a native Chinese speaker, but the "Americanized" pronunciations made it difficult to correctly search for the names of the various people and companies mentioned in the book - something I often do when I am interested to know more about certain topics.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-11-17
Not a Biography book about Jack Ma
If you are looking for a book about Jack Ma, about his life, ideas, thinking and what/how/why he becomes successful, this is NOT the book for you.
More like a Business report about Alibaba and summary his words from published interview.
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- cassiuswortmann
- 26-10-16
Interesting story, bad narration
While it did contain some critical info on the development of the China's dotcom industry as well as some bitesized nuggets of Jack Ma wisdom, I found myself continually wincing at the narrator's pronunciation of the names of Chinese individuals and places. However, this is just one of many audiobooks on China blighted by this headache-inducing problem.
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- Nathan
- 30-04-16
Terrible narration if you know Chinese mars good book
The book itself is both interesting and insightful. As somebody engaged in the China Internet space for work, and consequently very familiar with the content I found learned quite a bit about personalities and backstory delivered in engaging prose. True the book is very pro Jack and BABA but this is not a surprise, and does not obscure facts.
But if you know any Chinese, preparing to spend the entire book alternating between cringing and puzzling over the generally incomprehensible narration of every single Chinese word other than Alibaba, Ma, and Tsai. The inability to select a Chinese speaker to conduct narration on a book about China is inexplicable and disappointing.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-03-19
BUTCHERING THE CHINESE LANGUAGE
If you speak any Chinese at all, do yourself a favour and buy the *hard copy*.. The reader completely butchers the Chinese language, to the point where I do not know what city he is talking about. Not only does he not know how to pronounce any Chinese (which is an integral part of the book), but he often pronounces things differently throughout the book. Example 1 (of many): He first pronounces the city of YiWu correctly, but later begins to pronounce it YiWa... Not sure why. I can't listen to it anymore unfortunately, in the audiobook it is quite difficult to understand what people, cities, or companies the author is referring to. Extra minus points to the pronunciation of ZheJiang: "Jzayjeeang" :(
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- sb
- 02-05-17
Not a very informative or insightful on Jack
I was missing to hear more about Jack management style, growth and personal advice. You won't get it here.
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- Liko
- 22-01-19
Nice try, but i think narrator can do some more homework.
Really appreciated narrator’s effort, but it would be great if he can spend some extra effort on Chinese pingyin. He pronounced “Shenzhen” as “Sez chuan,” and Li Keqiang as Li qi kwan, and a lot of other mistakes.
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- Ray
- 20-05-16
AMAZON AND E-BAY COMBINED
A good overview of the Alibaba story. Until I listened to this book, I wasn't aware of the nature of the company, thought that it was just another Amazon, but found that it was more akin to E-Bay.
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- Mark Basson
- 29-07-16
great insight to one of the world's smartest men
good read and great insight to a man that has helped so many entrepreneurs. highly recommended!
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- iLard
- 23-09-16
Rather dull
An interesting story told in a very boring way, like a dry, unchallenging newspaper article. What a shame. Had to listen at x2 speed to get through in double quick, toe-curling time.
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- Project Manager
- 16-11-16
Very average book
The Chinese pronunciation is really terrible as other listeners have mentioned. The story isn't great either. You never really get to know Jack Ma and there isn't much backing to statements like 'Jack Magic'. It's almost like a Wikipedia article mixed with some hearsay and a few newspaper articles. I'd give Steve Jobs book 5 out of 5. In contrast this book struggles to get 2 out of 5.
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- demanda
- 02-02-17
Commentary with little insight
Little objectivity.
Didn't get passed chapter 2 before losing the will to listen any further.
Learned little that's not already published in interviews and profiles.
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- Raj Chakraborty
- 29-10-19
Not a great book
It was more of read from someone marketing Jack Ma, ratherb than a clean unbiased view!
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- Alexander
- 24-08-17
Not that interesting - felt biased
Just not that good or informative as other books in the genre. Dissapointed, would recommend to avoid.
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- Peter Chapman
- 02-08-17
Not a tech startup story
This book isn't a gripping history of Alibaba and its rise. It contains more like a bird's eye view of the Chinese tech scene, and Alibaba's and Ma's place in it.
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- pargi1988
- 15-07-17
Great read
Great read with a good understanding of how it all started. very insightful and well worth it.
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- rina
- 19-06-17
uninspiring
Not very objective. Did not inspire at all. Jack comes across as a con man
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- christopher lamph
- 29-12-20
PR nonsense
didn't enjoy this at all. The narrator bored the tits off me and it wasn't about Jack, it was just about alibaba and their steps to success, not what it looks like from the cover. boring didn't get past first couple of chapters.
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- alexkusuma
- 30-05-17
Inspiring but narrated by wrong person
The story is inspiring and insightful, unfortunately the narrator doesn't pronounce the names correctly. Chinese are tonal language if he say it with different tones it will have different meaning or no meaning at all.
The wrongly pronounce take some of the joy out of listening to this book
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- Mingtao
- 17-12-16
Good book, wrong narrator!
I'm a Chinese raised and educated in New Zealand. I found it very difficult to understand who and what the narrator was referring to because he obviously hasn't learnt any pin yin. Huge let down for what would otherwise be a great read!
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- Jeremy
- 28-05-17
Good story but cringeworthy Chinese pronunciation
Great story. Enjoyed it. But for something with so many Chinese names in it, you would think the narrator would have a reasonable ability in Chinese pronunciation. Needs help
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- B. van Caspel
- 11-09-16
Good, solid business biography
Having listened to a lot of business biographies, this one moves at a decent pace and gets into the right details. A balance of personal and business narrative as they both go through different challenges. I found this really helpful and leads me to want to know more about China's tech landscape.
What was annoying was how the narrator mispronounces many of the Chinese names and words, it would have been good if the narrator nailed them before recording the book. It throws you out of what is otherwise a well narrated book.
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- LA-Syd
- 03-09-19
Poor pronunciation
Great story only marred by poor pronunciation of Chinese names and phrases. A beginners lesson in phonetics should have been advised. If you’re going to narrate a story with foreign words then assign someone capable of using the correct phonetics or train them first.
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- Anonymous User
- 21-07-19
Annoying narrator can't pronounce Mandarin words.
I found it hard to listen to the narrator fumble his way through every word it Mandarin, it was difficult to listen to. Why wouldn't you just Google how to pronounce the word!!
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- Anonymous User
- 22-05-18
Great performance and story
If you are lookong for inspiration, don't buy it. if you inspired but looking for a push to put in the work, don't buy it. Only buy this if you want an appreciation for how difficult the road to success is. Jack Ma's story is woven between the realities of doing business in China and the US. More so this narrative tells of the rise of the internet in a country that tries to control as much as it can. It is a wonder that Jack and his peers have survived and thrived in that country, a testament to the agile and manouverability of entrepreneurs when they need to find their space.
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- Adam
- 17-01-21
Interesting
Very interesting book. Talks a lot about the context of Alibaba’s growth, which is important given how different China’s market is. However, the reader has put zero effort into learning how to pronounce Chinese words. It almost sounds like he is speaking French, which I found a bit painful.
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- Shaun
- 24-04-20
Good audio book
Good story backed up by facts. It's very interesting how Aliliba came to exist and it's potential impact on the world economy.
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- Ed F Parker
- 20-03-20
Interesting content presented in an engaging way
I found the delivery easy to understand and follow. The story is interesting with some insightful interpretation of how online business developed in China.