The Jack who would be king.(Jack Ma, head of Alibaba.com)(Brief Article)
Economist (US), The, August, 2000
Jack Ma, a passionate translator and xenophile, wants to build China's first genuinely global e-commerce firm. Can he combine idealism with making money?
HOW the slight, owlish figure of Jack Ma came to spearhead China's best attempt yet to create a global Internet brand must be one of the more bizarre tales in the short annals of e-commerce. Computers used to confuse him, and he did not even hear the word Internet until the end of 1994. He fell into the business more by accident than design. And the very idea of setting up an Internet firm came to him for no other reason than to save his life while he was held captive by a gun-toting crook in a Malibu beach house.
Conceptually, there is little special about Mr Ma's company,Alibaba.com. Its main...
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