February 27, 2012
Thu 07 Jul 2011

How is Jack Ma Viewed Within China for What He Did to Yahoo!?


  • Ever since the news broke in May that he had orchestrated a transfer of Alipay assets out of the group into an entity in which he controls 80%, there have been questions both in the US and China about how he handled himself and his partners Yahoo
  • In the United States, most investors or observers I’ve spoken with do not seem to trust Jack Ma because most are not very familiar with him
  • They think that Taobao is similar to eBay (EBAY
  • I went on a two week trip to China last month that took me to Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen
  • They think Alipay is similar to PayPal


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