Alibaba Ma Yun goes to Silicon Valley to attract it elites

[Sohu IT news] in March 2, according to Taiwan media reports, Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, went to Silicon Valley with enthusiasm 10 years ago without any investment. Ten years later, Alibaba became China's largest Internet company and e-commerce website. Ma Yun took his management team back to Silicon Valley and hoped to join his company with a dream and enthusiastic IT elites like him, participate in the implementation of the expansion plan in the new era.

According to the China News Agency, Jack Ma led nine senior executives from Alibaba headquarters, including Taobao, Alipay, and Yahoo China, who arrived in San Francisco on March 28, and attended the lecture at the Stanford University business school on the afternoon of the 28 th, communicate with Silicon Valley engineers and students from the Chinese student club of the business school. He revealed that he stayed in the United States for 15 days. Next week, he will contact Silicon Valley companies such as Google, Ewan, and Yahoo. Then he will visit Microsoft and Starbucks in Seattle, we will also meet with senior executives of GE and Walmart.

Thinking and Learning, looking for partners, and spending money to attract talents are the three purposes of Jack Ma and his team in the United States. Jack Ma said that Alibaba currently has $ More than 2 billion in cash, and the company plans to invest a lot to attract talents. "This year, we have recruited five thousand employees worldwide, most of whom are engineers ." After the expansion plan is implemented, the total number of Alibaba employees will reach seventeen thousand.

As a result, large companies in Silicon Valley have successively laid off employees, and many engineers have a promising future. Ma Yun did not hide that this is the best time to seek talent. "The high-end talents of Google, Yahoo, and electronic Bay will be added to Alibaba's Hangzhou headquarters and Silicon Valley branch. The number of Silicon Valley offices will be doubled to about 50 ." Jack Ma welcomed engineers from all ethnic groups to join Alibaba, but he hoped to return to China from Chinese.

In the face of the severe economic downturn in the United States and the increasing slump in Silicon Valley, Jack Ma directly pointed to "greed is the root cause ". "If an enterprise only eyes on numbers and money, this enterprise has no sense of social responsibility ." Jack Ma stressed that the difference between Alibaba and Alibaba is that "we always put our customers first ."

From a decade ago, "No one can see it" and now "becoming the focus of social and media attention", Jack Ma said "sticking to your dreams, constant innovation, and never giving up are Alibaba's corporate culture ". In the face of many foreign doctors and Silicon Valley elites, the Chinese local entrepreneur stressed the social responsibility of the enterprise and called on the entrepreneurs to return to "integrity, openness, and sharing ".