EECS 441 Fall 2017 Alibaba Group Presentation

1. William Zhang (bwzhang)

2. Main Products

3. Alibaba.com
● Business to business marketplace
● Handles sales in ~200 countries
● Connect exporters with importers

4. Taobao.com
● Consumer to consumer platform
● Similar to eBay
● 3rd most visited site in China

5. Tmall.com
● Business to consumer platform
● Connect brand names to consumers
● 4th most visited site in China

6. Other Products

7. Financial Info

8. Business Model
● Most revenue from commerce - 87%
● Alibaba.com - cut of sales
● Taobao.com - advertisements
● Tmall.com - merchant fee, cut of sales

9. History
● 1999: Founded by Jack Ma and 17 others
● 2002: Alibaba is cash flow positive
● 2003-2014: Launching of various products(Taobao, Alipay, Tmall, Aliyun,
etc.)
● 2005 - Partnership with Yahoo
● 2014 - IPO in US. Becomes largest IPO in history, $25 billion
● 2016 - Becomes largest retail economy in the world

10. Hot / Secret Sauce
● Right place, right time
● Tailored product to China
● Act as intermediary

11. Competition

12. Future Outlook
● Already extremely established
● Strong hold in Chinese market
● Trying out many new ventures
Success in the future? Yes

13. Questions?