In just a decade and half Jack Ma a man from modest beginnings who started out as an English
teacher founded Alibaba and built it into one of the world's largest companies an e-commerce
empire on which hundreds of millions of Chinese consumers depend. Duncan Clark first met Jack
in 1999 in the small apartment where Jack founded Alibaba. Granted unprecedented access to a
wealth of new material including exclusive interviews Clark draws on his own experience as an
early adviser to Alibaba and two decades in China chronicling the Internet's impact on the
country to create an authoritative compelling narrative account of Alibaba's rise. Clark tells
Alibaba's tale in the context of China's momentous economic and social changes illuminating an
unlikely corporate titan as never before.
