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Apoorva Dutt · · 1 min read

Jack Ma’s original sales pitch for Alibaba in 1999 is a lesson in thinking big

In this clip from 1999, Jack Ma delivers a speech to 17 friends in his apartment to introduce Alibaba and lay out his plan to go up against U.S. internet titans. “We compete with Silicon Valley,” said Ma.

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