I have just read Feiran’s blog about that Alibaba goes public in American recently. I am very interested in this topic because as a Chinese, Taobao, as the most crucial businesses of its, is closely related to me.

In the blog, it said that going public helps Ali to explore the abroad market, in my opinion, going public also helps to enlarge its market shares in order to become the leader of that. According to the interviews of Jack Ma, I can see his great ambition. He said the future of Ali is full of challenges as well as opportunities. However, although Ali succeeds in China’s e-markets, it still has a long way to go. There are many locally mature businesses like eBay or Amazon, so it Ali therefore needs more effort to enter the existing market that is gradually mature. Thus, I agree with Feiran at this point that Ali should not be so optimistic about the international market.

Moreover, as a Chinese, I know how Ali has influence peoples’ life. It’s like Ali has totally changed the way of shopping. The online market also promotes express service directly to an extremely extent. Ten years ago, no one could imagine that one day Ali would achieve success like that. So I do not think Jack Ma worries a lot about that. I feel so proud that Ali led by Jack Ma is reaching out to the world.

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Bao Feiran’s blog

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