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Alibaba’s Ma ‘kneecaps’ eBay, praises laziness, loves to fight

Jack Ma loves a good dustup, as his onslaught against EBay Inc. proved. The year was 2003. Though Ma's Alibaba.com Ltd. had a lock on business-to-business online auctions in China, eBay still controlled 80 percent of the consumer market. Undaunted, Ma started Taobao.com, a rival that lured EBay customers away by waiving user fees and forfeiting ...

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