The Alibaba Story - Legendary Growth Path Of A China-rooted Internet Company June 7, 2007

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Speakers: John Wu, CTO of Alibaba.com

Founded in 1999 as a B2B trading company, Alibaba survived the Internet dark age, and becomes a leading Internet player in the world. In August 2005, Yahoo! Inc. paid $1 billion in cash for a 40 percent stake in Alibaba, along with its China assets. Alibaba.com (a subsidiary of Alibaba) is planning to go public later this year in either Hong Kong or New York stock exchange, in what could be the biggest IPO ever for a Chinese Internet company.

As the CTO of Alibaba.com, John Wu is one of the top leaders in the company. He will share with us the successes as well as the challenges they have encountered. Come and join us to learn the legendary growth path of Alibaba

The event is free and dinner will be served. Seats are limited (70). Pre-registration is required. Please register as soon as possible.

Date & Time: 6:30pm to 9:00pm , Thursday, June 7, 2007
Venue:
Fenwick & West
801 California Street
Mountain View , California 94041 Google Map

Agenda:
6:30 pm - 7:00 pm Registration and Networking
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Speech by John Wu
8:30 pm - 9:00 pm Q & A

Register: http://hysta.org/event_detail.php?id=199

Biography of Speaker:
John Wu brings a wealth of technical and management expertise to Alibaba through his many years of work experience in Silicon Valley . After joining Yahoo! Inc. in April 1996, Wu directed the company's search and e-commerce technology engineering team. He is the chief architect of Yahoo!'s directory search engine and its many applications. Mr. Wu also led a team of engineers and technical professionals in the design and implementation of Yahoo!'s e-commerce technologies, which have now been deployed in over a dozen Yahoo!'s e-commerce services.

Prior to joining Yahoo!, Mr. Wu was the development Manager at Oracle's Server Technology Department. Mr. Wu received a BS degree with High Distinction from University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, majoring in Computer Science. He was born in Shanghai and studied at Shanghai Jiaotong University .

About HYSTA Distinguished Speaker Series (DSS)
The Distinguished Speaker Series (DSS) is one of the HYSTA chapters. DSS focuses on economic, social and business topics related to China . It is an opportunity for a broad range of audiences to hear and learn from prominent business leaders, scholars and influential policy makers in both China and U.S. In addition, it aims to help connect HYSTA members with mainstream Silicon Valley and help enhance communication between U.S. and China .

Official Website: http://www.hysta.com/event_detail.php?id=199