Video: Jack Ma’s business secrets

Jack Ma
Founder and Director, Board of Directors, Alibaba Group
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I made a bet: in 10 years we’ll be bigger than Walmart (based) on the sales. Because if you want to have 10,000 new customers, you have to build a new warehouse and all that. For me? Two servers.

Watch a clip of Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba, addressing the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2015 in Davos above, and catch up with his full session on leadership, entrepreneurship and the future of commerce here.

Image: Jack Ma, Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group, in Davos, January 23, 2015. WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM/swiss-image.ch/Photo Jolanda Flubacher

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