In just 1.5 decades, Jack Ma, a man of humble origins, started as an English teacher and built Alibaba into one of the world's largest companies, an e-commerce empire that hundreds of millions of Chinese consumers depend on. Duncan Clark first met Jack in 1999 in the small apartment where he founded Alibaba. Gaining unprecedented access to a trove of new information, including exclusive interviews, Clarke, drawing on personal experience as an early adviser to Alibaba and living in China for two decades, coinciding with the country's Internet boom, creates a credible, compelling story of Alibaba's rise. about Clarke tells the "tale" of Alibaba against the backdrop of China's massive economic and social changes, shedding light on the unparalleled titan of commerce in a way that has never been done before.
