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#32 Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built

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Jack Loses Control of China Pages

VBN designed the websites and put them online. Jack was good at gaining publicity, but China Pages still wasn't winning much business. His efforts to open doors with the central government came to not. In July 1996, China's national broadcaster broadcast a documentary which showed Jack being rebuffed by a government official. He was almost bankrupt.

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