Re:Alibaba breaks itself up in six
by bakuninsbart on Monday April 03, 2023 @12:26PM
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I don't think very highly of Jack Ma, but eloquence for non-native speakers should be judged very differently, especially for someone coming from a language very far away linguistically.
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Re:Alibaba breaks itself up in six
by iforgotpassword on Monday April 03, 2023 @01:01PM
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Exactly, Ma was kinda struggling to get a train of thought across linguistically and half the time when Musk interrupted him he was rather making fun of some poor choice of words and being like "lol whatever" than trying to actually engage in a conversation.
And I guess now with the Twitter shitshow Musk doesn't exactly look like a genius either.
Pretty much impossible to defend Elon's Twitter tenure. Can't think of a single thing he did that made that company more valuable.
Re:Alibaba breaks itself up in six
by gordian-mind on Monday April 03, 2023 @07:22PM
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What about laying off 75% of its workforce and open sourcing the twitter algorithm?
Is the company more valuable ?
Re:Alibaba breaks itself up in six
by gordian-mind on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @12:42PM
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Well it increases revenue, so certainly. The open sourcing increases it ethicality; I guess you could say it's not direct value.
In terms of pure market cap, which I'm not sure how relevant it is, it seems that the current valuation (41 billion) is higher than when he offered to buy it (34 billion in April 2022).