No. Alibaba is like Amazon+Ebay on steroids.

So when you're the CEO of this group do you tell your board "I'd like to own everything that falls under consumer-facing e-commerce"? I am thinking in cases like this the vision is to plain make as much money as possible. Everything else is just a mechanism to achieve that. This is no different than running a hedge-fund group where you make money off of your portfolio.

From Jack Ma's recent letter (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/54a53a50-353d-11e4-aa47-00144feabd...)

>Our Mission and Vision

Alibaba is a values-based company driven by our mission “to make it easy to do business anywhere.”

>we will put “customers first, employees second, and shareholders third.”