PositiveThe Wall Street JournalMr. Obmascik has found a remarkable story and dug deeply to enrich the telling. His narrative suffers occasionally from trite phrasing...and he does better with the close-up human stories than the broad military strategy, but this is an engrossing and at times deeply moving book.
Duncan Clark
PositiveThe Wall Street JournalThe story of Alibaba’s rise—along with Jack Ma’s—offers a fascinating window onto China’s staggering transformation. Duncan Clark tells the story with flair in Alibaba ... if Alibaba is a good yarn, its greatest value lies in what it says about today’s China. You can read the daily journalism and academic reporting, but it’s another thing to watch a fledgling 35-year-old entrepreneur hunt desperately for investors and then captain the largest-ever Wall Street IPO 15 years later ... While Mr. Clark comes across as a largely independent chronicler, occasionally his admiration for his subject is too evident.
