The idea is that by sharing orders, delivery status, and customer feedback each member company can improve efficiency and service quality, while remaining separately owned.
Alibaba encourages a sense of informality at work. Every employee is asked to adopt a nickname.
With its constant emphasis on culture and ideology, people at Alibaba refer to HR informally as the “Political Commissar”(zheng wei).
reducing “time to market,”launching products that they can perfect later, an approach some refer to as “running with short steps.”
“English helps me a lot. It makes me understand the world better, helps me to meet the best CEOs and leaders in the world, and makes me understand the distance between China and the world.”
Then trotting out one of his favorite sayings: “Today is brutal, tomorrow is more brutal, but the day after tomorrow is beautiful. However, the majority of people will die tomorrow night. They won’t be able to see the sunshine the day after tomorrow. Aliren must see the sunshine the day after tomorrow.”
Because schools teach knowledge, while starting businesses requires wisdom. Wisdom is acquired through experience. Knowledge can be acquired through hard work.”
Taobao.com’s tagline was “There is no treasure that cannot be hunted out, and there is no treasure that cannot be sold.”
But this contrarian stance is vintage Jack.