While the business world wonders where Jack Ma is, we asked another question: Who else in his circle should we be watching?
Jack Ma has comfortably sat at the top of the Chinese entrepreneur food chain for many years. In October 2020, things changed. Credit: World Economic Forum / Sandra Blaser, Creative Commons
He is arguably the most successful businessman in Asia. Jack Ma built not one but two companies that topped $150 billion in market value — something only Elon Musk has done with Tesla and PayPal. And along the way, Ma (who Forbes estimates is worth $60 billion) also built a series of investment firms as well as a financial and entertainment empire that produces films, television programs, sells insurance and, several years ago, helped take control of one of the world's hottest mobile gaming st
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