business Overview
| HQ |  Hangzhou, China |
| Business | E-commerce |
| Founded | access_time 24 years ago (founded Apr 4, 1999) |
TrueUp Trajectory Score | 68 /100 |
| Employees | 240,000 TrueUp Rank #5 |
| Valuation | $211 billion TrueUp Rank #16 all-time high: $333 B (-37%) 1 year ago: $254 B (-17%) 5 years ago: $524 B (-60%) |
| Public / Private | Public ($BABA) |
| Lists | Marketplaces Commerce |
Alibaba is an E-commerce company with 245 job openings. It is currently valued at $211 billion as a public company. 240,000 people work at Alibaba. The company was founded in 1999.
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| Valuation | $211 billion TrueUp Rank #16 52 wk high: $333 B (-37%) 1 year ago: $254 B (-17%) 5 years ago: $524 B (-60%) |
| Revenue trailing 12 months | $859 billion TrueUp Rank #3 |
| Revenue growth vs. same quarter last year | 3.2% TrueUp Rank #348 |
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| Valuation / Revenue | 0.3x |
| Valuation per employee | $0.9 million |
| Revenue per employee | $3.6 million |
phonelink Products
| Top products | - Alibaba.com - Taobao - Tmall - Alibaba Cloud - AliExpress - Youku - ele.me |
| Primary customer type | emoji_people B2C+business B2B |
| Is this really a tech company? | Partly remove Network effects close Zero marginal costs to produce check Product improves over time close Zero cost to expand globally close Self-serve onboarding + Zero cost of sales |
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| Glassdoor employee reviews | 68% would recommend Alibaba to a friend (1,686 reviews) worse than 68% of tech co's 81% approve of the CEO Daniel Yong Zhang (460 reviews) worse than 60% of tech co's |
| Company mission | "To make it easy to do business anywhere" |
| Company culture links | Alibaba Group Culture and Valuesnorth_east alibabagroup.com/en/about/culture |
| Companies founded by former employees | - DiDi (founded 2012) |
code Open Source
| Open source citizenship | sentiment_very_satisfiedsentiment_very_satisfied Outstanding TrueUp Rank #18 |
| Top open source projects | ★ 85.9kant-design / ant-design ★ 38.9kapache / dubbo ★ 32.4kalibaba / arthas ★ 29.1kalibaba / p3c ★ 27.8kalibaba / easyexcel ★ 26.9kalibaba / druid ★ 25.7kalibaba / canal ★ 26.4kalibaba / nacos ★ 25.3kalibaba / fastjson ★ 21.0kalibaba / Sentinel ★ 19.2kapache / rocketmq ★ 18.1kalibaba / weex ★ 17.5kalibaba / ice ★ 11.9kalibaba / hooks ★ 7.9kalibaba / rax ★ 6.0kdragonflyoss / Dragonfly ★ 4.6kalibaba / pouch |
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Associated billionaires (source:Forbes) | $23.3B - Jack Ma $8.4B - Joseph Tsai |
| IPO date | Sep 18, 2014 (9 years ago) |
| Top owners at IPO | 34.4% - SoftBank 22.6% - Yahoo 8.9% - Jack Yun Ma 3.6% - Joseph C. Tsai |
| Founder ownership at IPO | 12.5% |
| Implied founder equity split | 71% - Jack Yun Ma 29% - Joseph C. Tsai |