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Season 3, Episode 5: Alibaba

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The Skunk Corks Team at Alibaba

Ali baba founder creates skunk works team to build official bt in China. They decide that they're going to call it tow bow, which literally means treasure hunt. Nobody at ali baba knows that this is happening, except for jack ad ants,. And then to test it, they ere like, well, we can't let anybody know we're doing this. Why don't we just like, buying and selling stuff on the platform ourselves? It's kind of like a snowball rolling down a hill. People are getting go you all have shares in that competitor? Ha ha, ha,ha, ha.

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