“The transition enables Zhang to dedicate fully to cloud, as it is in the best position to embrace AI opportunities ahead,” Jefferies analyst Thomas Chong wrote in a note to investors. Zhang, who remains head of the cloud business, outlined the restructuring in detail just as Alibaba posted its third consecutive quarter of single-digit revenue growth, reinforcing concerns that a Chinese consumer spending rebound may be farther out than anticipated. It began to lose market share in the cloud, its other engine of growth, to state-backed rivals. The company never regained its stratospheric growth, particularly as new entrants such as ByteDance Ltd. Alibaba shares have slumped about 70% since, a wipeout of more than half a trillion dollars of value. Beijing began a clampdown on the private tech sphere shortly after, accusing Alibaba of monopolistic behavior before levying a record fine for the alleged violations. after the billionaire angered regulators with a public critique of Chinese financial regulators.
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In 2020, regulators cracked down on Ma and Ant Group Co. It’s unclear what tempted the pair back into the fold, though they inherit a company that’s a shadow of its former self. “Until the company can deliver growth again, I think investors won’t give much credit to just a management change.”Īlibaba’s US-traded shares fell 3.8% Tuesday morning in New York to $88.64. In addition it is facing stiff competition from other e-commerce platforms as well as short-videos,” said Vey-Sern Ling, managing director at Union Bancaire Privee. “Alibaba is basically a China proxy so it is dragged down by geopolitics and China’s economy. He went on to establish a venture capital firm that manages about a 10 billion yuan ($1.4 billion) portfolio encompassing autonomous driving and software. The former computer science major is credited with helping develop the company’s ad platform and the PayPal-like Alipay, now part of the Ma-backed Ant Group Co. Wu, who was similarly with Ma from the very beginning, is a lesser-known quantity. Read more: Alibaba Names Tsai Chairman, Wu CEO in Surprise Shake-Up A former lacrosse athlete arguably best-known in America as the owner of the Brooklyn Nets, Tsai understands the business intimately: he was right beside Ma at Alibaba’s inception in a Hangzhou lakeside apartment in 1999. Yale alumnus Tsai, a deal-maker well-liked among investors, is likely to play a significant role in handling markets and Alibaba’s most prominent backers. The idea was to create a family of leaders in businesses from cloud computing and logistics to international commerce that could seek funding and list separately, appeasing shareholders hungry for value.
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Their task now is to figure out how to follow through on a landmark six-way restructuring and spinoff that Zhang unfurled just months before. Both men are business heavyweights of their generation, credited with steering the technology and strategy that underpinned China’s erstwhile most valuable corporation - before Xi Jinping’s tech crackdown obliterated growth across swaths of the industry and nixed once-aggressive expansion plans.
Yet investors remain uncertain what they can do to restore an icon of Chinese private enterprise to its former glory.Īlibaba surprised markets by declaring Eddie Wu and Joseph Tsai will replace eight-year veteran CEO Daniel Zhang at the helm. is bringing back two of Jack Ma’s longest-serving lieutenants to try and turn around a company that’s struggled to regain its footing since Beijing’s regulatory assault against the internet sector in 2021.
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