Whether Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Google or Facebook, you know the Silicon Valley Say how charismatic founders have shaped the success of companies in the technology sector of a garage or a dorm room out. Jack Ma, the founder and driver of the recently-launched with a splash on the New York Stock Exchange Internet giant Alibaba, now adds a Chinese success story.’s
Sympathetic self-deprecating
The site of the incident and occurrence a tiny apartment in the known more for its tourist attractions as their technology parks southeast China’s big city Hangzhou. Where Ma has designed in 1998 with a force of 18 allies an Internet platform that has matured for determining force in e-commerce of the world’s largest consumer market and now also a capital market giants.
The core team of the first hour is still virtually complete in now 28-strong group of partners that determines the steering committee of Alibaba. His companions recognize the strong will, an outstanding strategic thinking and the ability to motivate large Ma. Behind the rather harmless-looking and always friendly facade is an extremely assertive character stuck, the unconditional commitment of its employees expected this but humorous brings over. This is also true in the self-assessment. The diminutive Ma with the somewhat peculiar physiognomy jokingly compares himself with the cute extraterrestrial beings from the Eighties hit movie “ET the Extra-Terrestrial. “
The 50-year-old Ma is in the public world still little known. In China it is however worshiped as an entrepreneurial genius for years. Ma is thus one of a small number of Chinese entrepreneurs who embody a kind of triumphal private Chinese Entrepreneurgeistes with global impact. Such may be the founder of the telecom equipment supplier Huawei, the computer maker Lenovo and the Internet companies Baidu and Tencent expect.
China’s technology Stars have a real fan base and are listed in the same breath as sports heroes as part of the modern Chinese national pride . They have in common that they do not ostentatiously wearing their vast wealth on display and know explicitly link their corporate mission with a social role and the progressive development of China. Typical of China’s showcase entrepreneurs is that they give very Chinese and not very worldly seem, what is quite adapted positively to them.
In the case of Ma, however, it is found in connection with the US-IPO, that he surprising to present themselves sent on the international stage white. The road shows to market the IPO he shone with presentations strategic Alibaba in the transfer of the Chinese to the global stage to the line and made a surprising wit on display.
Big fan base
Here comes Ma be good English in handy for that he owes to his previous existence as an English teacher. Although he tends to have a shy and reclusive, but still brings the ability to shine when needed before a large audience. In a large ceremony in the stadium from Hangzhou to 10-year-anniversary of Alibaba market Taobao saw Ma relaxed with a straw hat on stage jumping around and in front of an enthusiastic audience that every Chinese well-known rock anthem, “Wo ai ni, Zhongguo” (I love you, China) tonsicher belting into the microphone. A year later, Ma has conquered with the largest IPO of U.S. history apparently also the hearts of American investors, the ticker shows him the way out as the richest man in China.
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