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Alibaba
- The House That Jack Ma Built
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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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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- Korath V Mathew
- 07-09-21
Informative
very informative and insightful. Also gives a good idea about the business environment in China under shadow of CCP
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- Nitin Sharma
- 09-04-21
A detailed Journey of Alibaba
I love how this audiobook explores the details of Jack Ma's journey into founding Alibaba and how the entrepreneurial landscape was changing in China and the challenges associated with it is presented with many side stories of other businesses of the same time.
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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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- Rohit Mohan
- 07-03-21
Not going deep enough.
the book is good but it's only a good read and not any form of transformation for the listener
try walter issacson
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- Ankit
- 15-02-21
OUTDATED!! Most of the story we already know
I feel like I already knew all the stories narrated in the book via media and YouTube, so for me who was already following Alibaba there was nothing new here, just revision.
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- Achyutharamarao
- 07-06-21
A pleasure reading book
Alibaba, an enigma, had built such an iconic image himself, is clearly depicted in this.
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- Ankita Tandel
- 10-04-21
Good narration and story
loved it.learned a lot from it. A idea has a meaning only if you believe in it .
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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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- Girish
- 28-11-21
A must listen by every entrepreneur
Every Ecommerce Specialist or Aspirant needs to listen to this book do listen to this as much earlier to your journey in business
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- Shantanu Kulkarni
- 30-06-21
Very inspiring
Good book to listen. But at some points too much detail about other people. Overall narrative is good.
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