Breaking Up AliBaba

Brock Silvers, CEO, Kaiyuan Capital

30-Mar-23 07:45

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It’s been a lively week for Alibaba Group, the Chinese e-commerce giant worth 220 billion US dollars. Its boss, Jack Ma made an appearance in China after being absent for 3 years. This was then followed by the shock announcement that it would split into 6 business units, marking the biggest restructuring in the company’s 24 year history. Brock Silvers, CEO, Kaiyuan Capital tells us his views of this.

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Produced by: Moh Heng Ying

Presented by: Wong Shou Ning, Shazana Mokhtar

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Categories: Corporates, international

Tags: alibaba group, jack ma, china tech industry,

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