Jack Ma with Daniel Zhang
Jack Ma may announce his retirement today. He is the founder of Ali Baba Company. Jack Ma started his career as an English teacher in the school. He is known as a successful business man and an a motivational speaker in all the speeches he gives.
Jack Ma turned 55 today holds the center stage at his farewell party in the 80,000 capacity Stadium and his farewell ended with music, celebrity performances and farewell speeches.
Ali Baba is now taken over by his successor Daniel Zhang and people are hoping to get to know how Alibaba is going to work under Daniel leadership. Jack Ma founded the company 20 years ago from a small apartment in eastern China
For Daniel Zhang it is a big target to run $460 billion company and to take it to new horizons if he brings it well. An accountant by profession soft spoken Alibaba new CEO is contrast opposite of Jack Ma. But now he is to face challenges to become CEO of one of the most renowned company and to stay on top of the world.
When Jack Ma announced his retirement last year it was an unusual and rare transformation to retire from own firm so early. Under his leadership the company had become one of the most powerful and most largest company having around 100,000 people working and using most advanced techniques in financial services, cloud computing and artificial intelligence.