http://time.com/3404380/jack-ma-alibabas-founder-in-the-ipo-spotlight/
Jack Ma, with a fortune of $25 billion, becomes the richest man in China. As the founder of his company Alibaba Group, Ma has worked with Alibaba for 15 years. Alibaba is the largest online retailer in China now, sold 48,000 items on average every minute.
As the No. 1 e-commerce company in China, Alibaba has a large number of strengths. There are three version of the customer-to-customer online shopping platform, Chinese, English and Japanese. It has both B2C and C2C platform with mature development, and has an unbelievable large number of members, over 800 million.
Alibaba also gets opportunities for being the largest Chinese bbs in the world, helping to bring sellers and consumers from all over the world together.
Although it is an e-commerce giant, Alibaba still has some weakness. For example, the large number and the diversity of members make the e-commerce market too competitive, so there is not much profit for sellers to gain.
Threaten also exists for such a strong company. The way Alibaba works provides a sample for its competitor, it is not difficult to copy, and it makes the market more competitive for Alibaba.
Alibaba is becoming stronger and stronger after listed, the company is definitely promising with the excellent leadership of Jack Ma.