Alibaba.com - Příběh největšího on-line tržiště světa – Erisman Porter (2016)

In September 2014, a Chinese company that most people in the West had never heard of held the largest initial public offering (IPO) in history – larger than the combined IPOs of Google, Facebook, and Twitter. Alibaba, now the largest online retailer in the world, had eluded Western attention for over a decade while building a customer base larger than that of global giant Amazon and conducting a significant portion of internet transactions in China. The story of Jack Ma, an unknown Chinese English teacher who failed the college entrance exam twice and did not understand computers, yet founded Alibaba and transformed it from a struggling startup into a dominant player in global e-commerce, is remarkable. Alibaba survived the internet crisis, did not succumb to competition from eBay or Google, negotiated with the unpredictable Chinese government, withstood misguided advice from foreign experts – and created the largest online marketplace in the world. The remarkable story of Alibaba is compellingly narrated by former Alibaba vice president Porter Erisman, who stood by Jack Ma's side for eight years.