An engrossing insider's account of how a teacher built one of the world's most valuable companies--rivaling Walmart & Amazon--and forever reshaped the global economy.In just a decade and half, Jack Ma, a man from modest beginnings who started out as an English teacher, founded and built Alibaba into one of the world's largest companies, an e-commerce empire on which hundreds of millions of Chinese consumers depend. Alibaba's $25 billion IPO in 2014 was the largest global IPO ever. A Rockefeller of his age who is courted by CEOs and Presidents around the world, Jack is an icon for China's booming private sector and the gatekeeper to hundreds of millions of middle class consumers.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 advisor 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.How did Jack overcome his humble origins and early failures to achieve massive success with Alibaba? How did he outsmart rival entrepreneurs from China and Silicon Valley? Can Alibaba maintain its 80 percent market share? As it forges ahead into finance and entertainment, are there limits to Alibaba's ambitions? How does the Chinese government view its rise? Will Alibaba expand further overseas, including in the US?Clark tells Alibaba's tale in the context of China's momentous economic and social changes, illuminating an unlikely corporate titan as never before.

Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built

Biographies & Memoirs

Duncan Clark

Professionals & Academics

HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio

THE ROUGH GUIDE WEBSITE DIRECTORY an essential companion to the bestselling Rough Guide to the Internet will save you hours of online frustration. Reviewing thousands of the world's most useful, interesting and entertaining sites in plain-speaking style, it'll help you to do anything from shopping the world and fixing your computer to sourcing a recipe and re-igniting an old flame.

The Rough Guide Website Directory

Reference

Peter Buckley

Catalogs & Directories

Gardners Books

The Rough Guide to iPod, iTunes &amp; music online is the ultimate companion to the defining gadget of the digital music era – and an essential guide to sounds on the Net, on your PC or Mac, and in your pocket. It explains how to select the right model and get the best deal, how to import your CDs and manage your music library, how to digitize music from vinyl or cassette and download from the best online sites and storesas well as much much more. Whether you already have an iPod or you’re thinking of buying one, you need this book.

The Rough Guide to Ipods & Itunes 1 (Rough Guide Internet/Computing)

Buckley, Peter

Clark, Duncan

Literature & Fiction

Rough Guides

This multi-million-selling Internet book is still the ultimate handbook for novices and experts alike. Written in plain English, it covers everything from getting online for the first time to newsfeeds, Internet telephony and advanced tips and tricks guaranteed to turn casual surfers into Net gurus. Whether you’ve never sent an email or you want to keep up with the latest developments, you need this book.

The Rough Guide to Internet

Computers & Technology

The updated Rough Guide to iPods, iTunes &amp; Music online is the ultimate companion to the defining gadget of the digital music era – and an essential guide to sounds on the Net, on your PC or Mac, and in your pocket. The new edition provides full coverage of the latest range rolled out from Apple HQ, including the iPod photo, Shuffle and new generation Minis. As in the previous edition, it explains how to select the right model and get the best deal, how to import your CDs and manage your music library, how to digitize music from vinyl or cassette and download from the best online sites and stores, all this plus much, much more. Whether you already have an iPod or you’re thinking of buying one, you need this book.

The Rough Guide to iPods, iTunes & Music Online - 2nd Edition

Operating Systems

"WHOLEHEARTED"

Instant Apostle

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