Odds of a financial scandal in the next year?
He was the chairman, not a day to day guy who would know about such things.
Jack Ma to Retire from Alibaba
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Re: Jack Ma to Retire from Alibaba
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Claim going perpendicular to experience of every Alibaba employee I met. Probably opposite , not perpendicular then :)
People frequentyly use the term parallell to describe having the same experience, so logicaly a perpendicular experience would be synonymous with an opposite experience :)
No, in fact my coworkers and I use the term "orthogonal", which is synonymous with perpendicular, to mean two uncorrelated things. It's a statistics term.
Re: Jack Ma to Retire from Alibaba
#33I hope he's able to make a positive impact on education!
with the intensity he speaks and the clarity he has in what he speaks and given the fact he was a teacher, I fully expect him to actually make a positive impact
Re: Jack Ma to Retire from Alibaba
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
People frequentyly use the term parallell to describe having the same experience, so logicaly a perpendicular experience would be synonymous with an opposite experience :)
No, in fact my coworkers and I use the term "orthogonal", which is synonymous with perpendicular, to mean two uncorrelated things. It's a statistics term.
Orthogonal is from linear algebra or geometry, a generalization of perpendicular. Perpendicular implies only two dimensions.
I'd expect George P. to remember that from the dozens of PhDs.
Re: Jack Ma to Retire from Alibaba
#35Odds of a financial scandal in the next year?
Unlikely?
> As Alibaba has flourished, Mr. Ma has talked many times about how he did not want to spend his whole life at the company, saying he would retire one day and go back to teaching.
Re: Jack Ma to Retire from Alibaba
#36I hope he's able to make a positive impact on education!
Who knows maybe he'll help accelerate the bankruptcy of colleges [1] with backwards business models, ruined by extremely top heavy administration-first hierarchies pushing tuitions higher. And redirect the cheap capital going to end super expensive degrees with no market to more cost effective models that reflect market-demand (which apparently is not factored into the marketing of university courses to youth).
Re: Jack Ma to Retire from Alibaba
#37>Among China’s biggest companies, Alibaba is viewed as one of the firms with the deepest ranks of management talent. Claim going perpendicular to experience of every Alibaba employee I met. A person who was singlehandedly running both business development and operations for all of Aliexpress has left the company after 5 years without a promotion. The co has a reputation for squeezing work enthusiasm out from even mos…
Wouldn't that follow? If your talented management ranks run deep the only way up is out. He may be fantastic at what he does but if everyone above is also fantastic, the best thing you can do is raise compensation. Is that what happened?
It's also a huge company and one persons experience with their particular piece of upper management could be very different for 99% of the other people.
It's possible it was just some low-quality middle managers underneath the talent which blocked his recognition as well.
Jobs and wages are not finite resources either. If the person was legitimately producing value for the company, well beyond his own 'cost' to the company then smart management should have been able to find a way to keep him happy. Sometime it even comes down to communicating your value and making sure you're noticed.
Working hard isn't always sufficient on it's own sadly. Sometimes easy for managers to miss and believe that the other people chomping at the bit for the position are just as capable.
Re: Jack Ma to Retire from Alibaba
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, in fact my coworkers and I use the term "orthogonal", which is synonymous with perpendicular, to mean two uncorrelated things. It's a statistics term.
Orthogonal is from linear algebra or geometry, a generalization of perpendicular. Perpendicular implies only two dimensions. I'd expect George P. to remember that from the dozens of PhDs.
"Synonymous" doesn't have a logically descriptive definition, but it's definitely not the same as saying "identical". OP was flat out trying to use perpendicular to mean something that doesn't make sense based on its typical usage.
Re: Jack Ma to Retire from Alibaba
#39The brewing trade war can't make running the company easy for Ma, considering Alibaba does more volume than eBay and Amazon combined as a portal to Chinese manufacturers. Taking into account that the company's listed on a US stock exchange yet still has to answer to government regulation back in China, I can't imagine he's having a good time being caught in the middle.
They'll be ok, even with the trade war. The majority (about 90%) of Alibaba's sales are domestic (Chinese). The rest is exports (not just to the US though): https://www.statista.com/statistics/226793/e-commerce-revenu... And read this if you want to get an idea of where their revenue comes from: https://www.nasdaq.com/article/alibaba-baba-misses-q1-earnin...
>The majority (about 90%) of Alibaba's sales are domestic (Chinese)
But how many of those domestic customers get their own paycheck from exports? China is moving towards a more domestic-focused economy, but exports are still a big deal for them.
Re: Jack Ma to Retire from Alibaba
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It's gone up in the developing world. It hasn't gone up in the US. Infrastructure that the common man relied on is crumbling or is just gone, ie Flint water, and the rich are just importing everything they need to themselves
Portions of the US are worse off. It's still easily the case that the standard of living has increased for most people.
Does the average American born after 1990 have more house or a better retirement plan than their parents? There's luxuries like smartphones that have increased but the basics have been slipping out of more and more people's hands