Alibaba Chair Joe Tsai on Mistakes & Correcting Course

The John Johnston Lounge · Apr 16, 2024 · 14m

I react to and discuss part of a recent interview with Alibaba co-founder & Chair Joe Tsai, conducted by Norges Bank Investment Management. In this part, Joe Tsai discusses starting out as an investor before co-founding Alibaba, meeting Jack Ma, scaling Alibaba, falling behind the increasingly intense competition in China, acknowledging mistakes, and recently reorganising Alibaba to course correct. Alibaba stock ticker: BABA. See below timestamps: 00:36 Starting as an investor 01:48 Meeting Jack Ma at startup Alibaba 04:27 Monetizing and scaling Alibaba with Jack Ma 07:33 Falling behind the…