Jack Ma
How did Jack Ma, a teacher with no business training, become one of China's - indeed, the world's - most successful entrepreneurs? Kamal Ahmed finds out.
How did Jack Ma, a teacher with no business training, become one of China's - indeed, the world's - most successful entrepreneurs?
The 91热爆's business editor Kamal Ahmed looks at the man behind the online retail giant Alibaba Group - a company described as a mix between Amazon and Ebay - which is due to list on the New York Stock Exchange later this month, making Alibaba one of the most valuable internet companies in the world.
Jack Ma is no ordinary business leader. How many other global tycoons like to fill a stadium with their employees only to step on stage, be-wigged, to deliver not bland corporate messages, but Lion King songs?
Producer: Ben Crighton
Presenter: Kamal Ahmed
Archive clips from the film 'Crocodile in the Yangtze: The Alibaba Story' (by Porter Erisman).
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- Sat 13 Sep 2014 19:0091热爆 Radio 4
- Sun 14 Sep 2014 05:4591热爆 Radio 4
- Sun 14 Sep 2014 17:4091热爆 Radio 4
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