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title: "Jack Ma – Alibaba Founder & CEO – Original Sales Pitch Video from 1999"
description: "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 compete with U.S. internet titans. For more, check out \"Crocodile in the..."
url: https://billionaires.com/jack-ma/
date: 2022-01-31
modified: 2024-01-16
author: "Kevin Coulston"
type: page
lang: en
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# Jack Ma – Alibaba Founder & CEO – Original Sales Pitch Video from 1999

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 compete with U.S. internet titans. For more, check out “Crocodile in the Yangtze: The Alibaba Story,” as seen on Bloomberg TV.