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马云美国哥伦比亚大学商学院英语演讲稿 　　Alibaba Makes Internet Magic 　　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 ago 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 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, sponsored 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 2019,making it the second 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 the 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 childhood 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