TY - BOOK AU - Clark,Duncan TI - Alibaba: the house that Jack Ma built SN - 9780062413406 (hardcover) AV - HF5548.325.C6 C48 2016 U1 - 381/.1420951 23 PY - 2016///] CY - New York PB - Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers KW - Ma, Yun, KW - Alibaba (Firm) KW - fast KW - Electronic commerce KW - China KW - Internet marketing KW - Internet auctions KW - Digitalisierung KW - gnd KW - Electronic Commerce KW - Wirtschaftswachstum KW - Unternehmen N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-287); The iron triangle -- Jack magic -- From student to teacher -- Hope and coming to America -- China is coming on -- Bubble and birth -- Backers : Goldman and SoftBank -- Burst and back to China -- Born again : Taobao and the humiliation of eBay -- Yahoo's billion-dollar bet -- Growing pains -- Icon or Icarus? N2 - Traces the founding of Alibaba, the world's second largest Internet company, by an English teacher from humble origins, drawing on exclusive interviews to explore how the company and Jack Ma have become icons and leading employers in China's booming private sector ER -