William Zhang (bwzhang)

Main Products

Alibaba.com● Business to business marketplace

● Handles sales in ~200 countries

● Connect exporters with importers

Taobao.com ● Consumer to consumer platform

● Similar to eBay

● 3rd most visited site in China

Tmall.com● Business to consumer platform

● Connect brand names to consumers

● 4th most visited site in China

Other Products

Financial Info

Business Model● Most revenue from commerce - 87%

● Alibaba.com - cut of sales

● Taobao.com - advertisements

● Tmall.com - merchant fee, cut of sales

History● 1999: Founded by Jack Ma and 17 others

● 2002: Alibaba is cash flow positive

● 2003-2014: Launching of various products(Taobao, Alipay, Tmall, Aliyun, etc.)

● 2005 - Strategic partnership with Yahoo

● 2014 - IPO in US. Becomes largest IPO in history, $25 billion

Hot / Secret Sauce● Right place, right time

● Tailor products to China

● Solely act as middleman

Competition

Market share of B2C and C2C shopping in China

Future Outlook● Established and still growing● Dominant hold in Chinese market● Still researching and pursuing new ventures

Success in the future? Yes

Questions?