The Allegravita Digital Communications crew is filled with admiration for the founder of Alibaba, Alipay and TaoBao, Jack Ma. Mr. Ma is probably the greatest technology entrepreneur that China has produced, and is certainly the nation’s most vociferous supporter of Chinese SMEs.
Mr. Ma bootstrapped Alibaba in 1999 from his hometown of Hangzhou; today the Alibaba Group (incorporating the Alibaba B to B marketplace, the Alipay payments gateway and the TaoBao online small online shopfront marketplace) is the country’s ecommerce titan.
We loved this 20 minute TV interview with Mr. Ma on the Charlie Rose show. The video is in a proprietary format so we can’t embed it here, so the best we can do is to offer up the link to the clip.