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1、 马云美国哥伦比亚大学商学院英语演讲稿 Topics: Entrepreneurship Leadership Media and Technology World Business Print this story E-mail this story Bookmark and share You may not have heard of the Alibaba Group, but investors, competitors and business leadersaround the world are paying close attention. Formed 11 years a

2、go by high school teacher JackMa, A is Chinas largest B2B Internet marketplace for small- and medium-sizedcompanies. Other holdings include Alipay, an online payment service similar to PayPal; AlibabaCloud Computing; and Taobao, a social networking and shopping site that Mr. Ma describes asa mash-up

3、 of Amazon, eBay . But its the flagship company, A, thathas been the incubator for his sometimes-unorthodox ideas on management and productdevelopment. We dont think about making money, Mr. Ma said in September during the Sir Gordon WuDistinguished Speakers Forum at Columbia Business School, sponsor

4、ed by the Chazen Institutefor International Business. We think about creating value for society, for the people, and forthe customer. And because we dont think about making money, we make money. That might sound flippant coming from someone whose website raised $1.5 billion in 2023,making it the sec

5、ond largest Internet IPO in history (only Googles, at $1.67 billion, was larger).Today, market capitalization for A is nearly $10 billion, and Taobao has mushroomedinto Chinas largest retailer by some measures. Thats all the more remarkable consideringthat Mr. Ma operates in a country with some of t

6、he most restrictive Internet censorshippolicies in the world. Still, he has succeeded by adhering to one simple six-word tenet:customers first, employees second, shareholders third. The Early Days Dressed casually in canvas shoes and a white windbreaker, Mr. Ma recounted for the audiencehis childhoo

7、d in Hangzhou, a major city in Chinas Yangtze River delta. He was, he said, a fanof wu xia (martial arts) novels, and often got into fistfights as a young boy. He picked upEnglish on his own by acting as a tour guide for foreign visitors in exchange for languagelessons, but because he had difficulty

8、 with math, he twice failed his general college entranceexams. On the third try, he was admitted to the languages program at the local university,after which he began a career teaching high school English. But along the way, the entrepreneurial bug bit. He launched a translation service and washired

9、 by an American businessman, who was bankrolling construction of a local highway, totranslate negotiations with Chinese municipal authorities. Part of the deal-making called for himto travel to Las Vegas to meet some investors, and it was there, in 1995, that he first heard theword Internet. He then

10、 travelled on his own to Seattle to visit VPN, a small Internet serviceprovider with five employees. There he got his first look at the technology that would, within adecade, make him one of the most influential entrepreneurs in the world. Fee or Free? A key to his success, Mr. Ma said, was having a

11、 business model so simple that any customercould instantly understand it. Unlike eBay, which has a sliding scale of fees, plus commissionif the item sells, A charges nothing for up to 50 product listings. Chinese SMEssmall and medium enterprises want to sell their products abroad, he said. We help t

12、hemcreate revenue. But what about Alibabas revenue? That comes largely from annualmembership fees that sellers pay to upgrade to Gold Supplier status, which gives themaccess to more buyers and an online storefront. A membership fee is something all SMEs understand, he said. If you talk about transac

13、tioncharges, our P/E price to earnings ratio would go up, but customers wouldnt understandus. Our business model should be simple and easy enough for customers to understand.Taobao, meanwhile, has also steadfastly adhered to the no transaction fee philosophy, whichcaused it to leak money for several

14、 years. Recently, though, it began selling ad space on thesite. Revenues have been high enough to push Taobao into the black, Mr. Ma said. For the first five years of A, Mr. Ma was the sites chief quality control officer. Everyfeature of the site was put to one test: if he couldnt figure out how to

15、use on his own, withoutexplanations or manuals, it didnt get implemented. Im not a high-tech guy, he said. Mywife bought me an iPad and I still dont know how to use it. The sites design is deliberatelyno-frills: Clicking on the categories tab, for example, pulls up an easy-to-scan alphabeticallist o

16、f items for sale, everything from fresh garlic to pipe fittings. New requests from buyers areprominently displayed and constantly updated. And for buyers who cringe at the thought ofracking up a phone bill, theres a list of Chinese suppliers with toll-free numbers. Whats ahead for the Alibaba Group?

17、 Dont expect a foray into online gaming any time soon. Idont believe in online gaming, he said, noting that his son and his friends spend hours afterschool glued to a computer screen. We could make a lot of money on gaming, but I just dontwant my kids to be focused online, he said. Instead, he said, the next big thing in China will beB2C commerce. “The world is changing,” he said. “With so many consumers, they can say I want my productstailor-made. This will fundamentally change the Internet.” 【马云美国哥伦比亚大学商学院英语演讲稿】