The Thinking Behind Alibaba's Expansion

You started off in e-commerce. Your vision is that customers will meet, work and live at Alibaba, which is pretty much everything. Where does the ambition end, and what's the unifying vision? TSAI: Since 1999, we started the company with a mission to make it easy to do business anywhere. We want to make sure we help businesses, companies, especially small companies, to be able to reach their markets and reach consumers.