the 20th century. >> china was not even connected to the internet yet. >> two days after xi jinping's opened china's doors, jack ma had his moments. >> china is opening, opened the door. >> he founded alibaba in 1999 as an online marketplace for small chinese businesses. >> all of these individual workers and small businesses around the country could suddenly be connected to the rest of the world. >> the company became an internet behemoth that sells everything from cars to high-end fashion and offers food delivery and financial services. it's china's amazon, google, ebay, paypal and more. by 2014, jack ma had arrived on the new york stock exchange to ring the bell. it was the world's biggest initial public offering. >> it's beat out facebook, intel, amazon, you name it. >> it unlocked a huge amount of