Jack Ma
Founder and CEO, Alibaba
Building China’s commerce infrastructure from an apartment
Rating
84Impact score
Domains
E-commercePaymentsCloud
Scouting report
A former English teacher who founded Alibaba in his Hangzhou apartment in 1999, beat eBay in China with Taobao, and solved the trust problem with an escrow payment system that became Alipay. Alibaba’s 2014 New York listing raised about $25 billion, the largest IPO in history at the time. Dubbo and RocketMQ are Apache projects that came out of the company.
Curator’s note
The card that shows how much of the internet was built outside Silicon Valley.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Jack Ma by Foundations World Economic Forum, licensed CC BY 2.0.
Sources
- 01Jack Ma en.wikipedia.org
- 02Alibaba Group en.wikipedia.org
- 03Apache Dubbo dubbo.apache.org