#32 Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built

I first met Jack in the summer of nineteen ninety nine. A few months after he founded Alibaba in a small apartment in Hangzhou. Some hundred miles southwest of Shanghai. On my first visit I could count the number of co founders by the toothbrushes jammed into mugs on a shelf.

In the bathroom. In addition to Jack. There included his wife. Kathy. And sixteen others.

Jack and Kathy had wagered everything they owned on the company. Including their home. Jack's ambition then as it remains today was breathtaking. He talked of building an internet company that would last eighty years.

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