The Profit Prophet

The House That Jack Ma Built (On Someone Else's Land): How Alibaba Conquered China by Copying Everyone Else

Episode Summary

Before Jack Ma became China's richest man, he was a failed entrepreneur who couldn't even get hired at KFC. We dissect how Alibaba became a $200 billion empire not through innovation, but through perfectly timed imitation—and what happens when the Chinese government decides your success story is over.