Ma received the award at the 19th annual Forbes Global CEO Conference, held this year in Singapore, where he and Forbes talked for about an hour about Alibaba history, Ma’s thoughts on entrepreneurship and his philanthropy work.
“We believed in the future and I believe the internet can empower people,” he said, speaking of Alibaba’s 17 other founders in 1999. “So, we do Alibaba because there are so many small businesses that don’t know when and how, where they can sell the products.”
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