What Can Jack Ma’s Departure Teach Us About Succession Planning?
Last week Jack Ma stepped down as head of Alibaba, one of the world’s largest e-commerce companies.
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Jack Ma’s Resignation: Business’s Loss Could Be Society’s Gain
Whilst many may still be reeling from the news that Jack Ma is leaving Alibaba at 55, his departure from the corporate world opens another door: one to his philanthropy.
Why Jumia Is Beating Amazon and Alibaba in Africa
Jumia has been dubbed the "Amazon of Africa." It's Africa's largest e-commerce operator, surpassing Amazon and China's Alibaba, and it's the first African tech start-up to go public on the New York Stock Exchange.
Why Alibaba Gave Up On US Consumers
Alibaba is China's largest e-commerce platform. In its latest earnings report, Alibaba disclosed having 636 million annual active consumers on its China retail marketplaces.
Jack Ma Success Story: Failure To Success
From handling multiple failures to achieving enormous success in his life, the success story of Jack Ma proves that hard work and dedication can change a person's fortune. Startup stories proudly presents this motivational biography of…
Will There Be Another Apple?
By Louisa Rochford
Apple Inc. reached a valuation of one trillion dollars in August of this year, the first of this phenomenon in history. At the time, the company was in tight competition with Amazon, both vying for this…
Jack Ma: From KFC Reject to Asia’s Richest Man
Jack Ma wasn't born rich but now he is the richest man in Asia. This Bloomberg profile tells the story of how Ma started as a poor kid in China's countryside, learned English, got rejected from a job at KFC but then went on to found…
Alibaba: Internet ‘More Important Than Oil’
Alibaba Group CEO Jack Ma and Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev participated in a plenary session on digital economy at the 2017 Moscow International Forum 'Open Innovations', in the Russian capital, Tuesday. According to Ma, "in the…
Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang Defines ‘New Retail’
“The department store and supermarket you know today will not be the same tomorrow,” Daniel Zhang, Alibaba CEO, told the Viva Tech conference in Paris.