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Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built

Duncan Clark

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.

Business & EconomicsBusiness & Economics · medium confidenceBusiness & Economics81 signalsLlm Classifier: Business & Economics -> Business & EconomicsKeyword Classifier: American History -> American HistoryAward Category: FT Business Book of the Year -> Business & EconomicsTechnology, Computing & AIConstitutional HistoryInfrastructure, Engineering & Built EnvironmentAsia & the Pacific

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
FT Business Book of the YearMajor2016ShortlistSecondary source
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Experimental book profileGenerated by GPT-5.4 nano · may contain inaccuracies

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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Jack Ma84%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 60%.