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Welcome back Jack Ma. Don’t forget the little guys
Alibaba’s “rehabilitated” founder has much to gain from improving the lot of food delivery riders.
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Chairman of Alibaba Group Jack Ma is returning to a company that is facing a very different set of challenges.
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Juliana Liu
It would be smart of Mr Jack Ma, now firmly back at the company he co-founded, to do more to improve the livelihoods of delivery riders powering Alibaba Group Holding’s biggest business unit. Doing so would be a shrewd move in more ways than one.
Just months after publicly shaking hands with President Xi Jinping, heralding the revival of animal spirits among China’s technology firms that has boosted the stock market, Mr Ma has returned to the office and is more directly involved than he’s been in years, Bloomberg News reported. Though without an official title, the iconic businessman’s reappearance has nevertheless fired up morale.
