Jack Ma Case Study

Jack Ma Firstly, Jack Ma is an open risk taker. Jack Ma found China’s first Internet-based company in 1995. He is the founder of Alibaba Group. The newspaper reported, essentially, that Alibaba has been on a buying spree since 2013, spending billions to acquire stakes in businesses such as department stores and mapping services in China, as well an array of technology start-ups in the U.S. In addition, the article indicates that its recent acquisition control of a Hong Kong film company just two months ago (now called Alibaba Pictures Group) might not have been “fully vetted,” and that “possible non-compliant accounting issues” have since been discovered. The article further asserts (via “experts”) that “Alibaba has little expertise in many of the new businesses,” which means that it has to rely on incumbent managers in business decisions and that “Alibaba, like most Chinese companies, does not have the ability to manage the increasing number of unfamiliar yet decentralized divisions and people.” Jack Ma has been pushing the envelope, out-learning them and moving forward with a speed unheard of by Western analysts. He has a great vision is on a path to learn rapidly and is following that with passion. Jack Ma has

China Pages was a flop. But four years later, Ma took another stab at an internet business. He called his second company Alibaba. Next week, Alibaba will start trading on the New York Stock Exchange, in what could be the biggest offering in U.S. history. Bloomberg reports that Alibaba wants to sell 12% of the company. Ma still owns a 8.9% stake in the company, which means he will be worth ~$14.5 billion if the $160 billion valuation holds. Ma is no longer the CEO of Alibaba. He is the chairma but he is still the face of the