For years, nobody flew higher in China than Jack Ma, the pixie-faced founder of the $500 billion powerhouse e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba, the Amazon of Asia, whose net worth is $59.1 billion.

When Jack Ma dreamed up Alibaba in 1999, the online world looked nothing like it does today. The most popular search engine was Yahoo, not Google. There were no iPods, iPhones or iPads.

Alibaba’s rise was cemented in 2014 when its initial public offering in New York raised over $21 billion. It also cemented Mr. Ma’s personal wealth, and by many counts he is China’s richest man.

Jack Ma Takes Alibaba On A New Path, For Better Or Worse. ByYue Wang, Forbes Staff. Follow Author. May 09, 2018, 12:28am EDT May 09, 2018, 12:28am EDT. Share. Save. This article is more than 7 ...

Jack Ma, a billionaire pioneer of China’s internet industry, will step down as Alibaba’s executive chairman next year to make way for the company’s next generation of leaders.

Ma signed off with his usual flourish. “One thing I can promise everyone is this: Alibaba was never about Jack Ma, but Jack Ma will forever belong to Alibaba,” he said in a letter to staff and ...

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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has confirmed Jack Ma’s plan to step down as chairman. He will be replaced by current CEO Daniel Zhang in September next year. Rumors of the retirement of the 54 ...