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Alibaba''s World: How One Remarkable Chinese Company Is Changing the Face of Global Business

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By (author): Porter Erisman

In September 2014, a Chinese company that most Westerners had never heard of held the largest IPO in history bigger than Google, Facebook and Twitter combined. Alibaba, now the world's largest e-commerce company, mostly escaped Western notice for over ten years, while building a customer base larger than Amazon's, and handling the bulk of e-commerce transactions in China. How did it happen? And what was it like to be along for such a revolutionary ride?

In Alibaba's World, author Porter Erisman, one of Alibaba's first Western employees, who helped spearhead its international expansion, shows how Jack Ma, a Chinese schoolteacher who twice failed his college entrance exams, rose from obscurity to found Alibaba and lead it from struggling startup to the world's most dominant e-commerce player.

Now, in the first English language account of Alibaba's extraordinary success, Erisman shares stories of weathering the dotcom crash, facing down eBay and Google, negotiating with the unpredictable Chinese government, and enduring the misguided advice of foreign experts, all to build the behemoth that's poised to sweep the ecommerce world today. And he analyzes Alibaba's role as a harbinger of the new global business landscape with its focus on the East rather than the West, emerging markets over developed ones, and the nimble entrepreneur over the industry titan. As we face this near future, the story of Alibaba and its inevitable descendants is both essential and instructive.

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  • Weight: 176g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Jun 2016
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781447290667

About Porter Erisman

Prior to joining Alibaba in 2000 Porter Erisman worked for Ogilvy & Mather in Beijing. From 2000-2008 Porter worked as a Vice President at Alibaba.com and Alibaba Group at various times leading the company's international website operations international marketing and corporate affairs as one of the company's first American employees. He is the writer/director of Crocodile in the Yangtze an award-winning documentary about the rise of Alibaba and its famous founder Jack Ma. An expert on ecommerce in emerging markets he has consulted to ecommerce companies in Africa Asia and Latin America. He lives in Shanghai China.

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