The Capitalist Jack Ma

摘要

When the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange rang out on Sept. 19, it rharked the biggest IPO the world had ever seen-bigger than Facebook's or General Motors' This new Wall Street juggernaut, based 7,000 miles away in Hangzhou, China, is Alibaba. Its founder and chairman, 50-year-old Jack Ma, is now challenging some of the most powerful companies on the Internet, including Amazon, eBay and PayPal. And he is doing so by melding Western entre-preneurship with a canny-and sometimes controversial-sense of how to profit in the world's most populous nation.