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| Amazingly True Fact: Alibaba has 300 million customers:
| just short of the entire US population.
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So!
You’ve heard now about
the Alibaba thingee.
Well, here are 40 reasons
why you want to take
advantage of it!
Found ’em on the Guardian….
1. Jack Ma was an English teacher when
he started the site from his
one-bedroom apartment in Hangzhou,
Zhejiang province, in 1998.
2. In its early days, staff would
pretend they were not Chinese when
sending emails to American customers.
3. It dominates internet retailing in
China, where it powers 80% of online
commerce.
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4. Alibaba is not Ma’s first e-commerce
venture – he founded China Yellowpages,
said to be the first internet company
in China.
5. He set up Alibaba with $60,000
borrowed from 18 people.
6. Ma first came across the internet in
1995 during a trip to Seattle. His
first search? Beer.
7. Alibaba’s sales for 2014 are
estimated at $420bn (oe257bn), dwarfing
Amazon and eBay which had a combined
turnover of $90bn in 2013.
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8. It has 300m customers – just short
of the entire US population.
9. On a single promotional day in
November 2013, Alibaba recorded sales
of $5.6bn.
10. Ma is currently estimated to be
China’s third richest person, with a
$10.3bn fortune. The float should
catapult him into first place.
11. His shareholding in Alibaba is 8.9%.
12. Ma came up with the name Alibaba in
a coffee shop in San Francisco. He
pulled his waitress over to ask what
she knew about Ali Baba and she
replied: Open Sesame. He says the
name reflects how his business opens up
opportunities for small businesses to
sell their goods.
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13. Critics say fake goods appear rife
on many Alibaba sites, although the
company claims to spend millions
rooting them out.
14. It is expected that at least $22bn
of shares will be sold on Thursday, in
what is expected to be the world’s
largest IPO.
15 If underwriters exercise an option
to sell more shares, Alibaba’s market
debut will top Agricultural Bank of
China Ltd’s record $22.1bn listing in
2010.
16. The company will start trading on
the New York Stock Exchange on Friday.
17. Its shares will trade under the
ticker BABA.
18. New York was chosen for Alibaba’s
debut after the Hong Kong stock
exchange’s officials rejected its
request to allow a small group of
company insiders to nominate the
majority of the board.
19. Ma is well known for his
flamboyance and has entertained staff
singing The Lion King (view the video
here, from 1.04).
20. When he needs inspiration, Ma
returns to the flat where he started
the company.
21. In a letter sent to staff the day
that Alibaba filed its IPO prospectus,
he said: We will continue to adhere to
the principle of ‘customers first,
employees second, shareholders third’.
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22. The company employs more than
25,000 people.
23. The biggest shopping site under the
Alibaba umbrella is Taobao, where 7m
merchants sell their wares.
24. After the IPO, power at the
e-commerce giant will be concentrated
in the hands of a 28-person partnership.
25. The power structure has led to
criticism that if an investor were
unhappy about the direction of the
company, they would have little ability
to change it.
26. New York was chosen for the listing
in part due to its more relaxed
attitude to voting, which will let Ma
retain his grip on the company.
27. The corporate structure will allow
Ma and other senior staff to nominate
more than half of the board members.
28. It is thought Alibaba will target
US and European markets after it lists
despite low recognition of the brand.
29 A recent US poll found that 88% of
respondents had not heard of Alibaba.
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30. Ma has always been confident of
dominating China and fending off eBay:
eBay may be a shark in the ocean, but
I am a crocodile in the Yangtze river.
If we fight in the ocean, we lose – but
if we fight in the river, we win.
31. Ma is said to be influenced by
martial arts and kung fu movies and
their principles of upholding
righteousness.
32. More than 50% of parcels sent in
China are Alibaba parcels.
33. Ma’s talent for public-speaking and
showmanship hailed from his parents,
both past performers in the traditional
storytelling art of ping tan.
34. Much of the interest in Alibaba
hails from investors eager to exploit
China’s booming economy.
35. A team from Alibaba visited New
York, Boston, Hong Kong and Singapore
to drum up investor support.
36. Alibaba’s success is built on the
huge number of internet users in China,
estimated at 600 million.
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37. A new frontier for Alibaba is
financial services – with its Alipay
app which can be used to make payments
– from paying taxis or investing in
funds.
38. Strong demand for shares raised the
price range earlier this week to
between $66 and $68 a share, up from
the initial $60 to $66.
39. At $68 a share, Alibaba would be
valued at around $162.7bn which would
make it the biggest float in history.
This would make it larger than Amazon,
which is valued at around $150bn.
40. Despite his success, Ma once
claimed that he has little knowledge
about technology, limiting his computer
use to surfing the web and emailing.
In a nutshell:
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Wouldn’ it be great if you could
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Just like you could from Amazon?
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A lot more than Amazon and eBay,
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Alibaba is just gaining speed
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and this is the first!
Grow strong,
Barbara I like smart! Ling
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