Based in china advising Foreign Companies on chinese tech and kind of, you know, alibaba status and explosively successful company. I think in a lot of ways mirrors the chinese economy choose why someone with the kind of insider knowledge and 20 years of experience, he can explain it in a way that very few can and we are privileged to have him here today. If you can join us in welcoming mr. Duncan, enjoy the talk. [applause] i thought you were reading that information. [inaudible] it was great. I just did a lookaround on wichat. Its appropriate because its not an alibaba product. So we just dont have to talk about alibaba, internet culture, Internet Society that is china today but obviously theres this book called alibaba that my publisher forced me to talk , no i want to talk about it and whenever you look at entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs failure is more interesting than success. And jack had a lot of failure, you dont really get into the book, the book starts with a chapter on alib
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They to go to our web site booktv. Org and the schedule is always available vacancy programs that we offer and dead general scope of the weekend is all there on booktv spee ted. This is the treaty to talk about your new book. We have berdichev other for about 50 years so which is the privilege to have you here. One of the few that understands. Somewhere first question is the time being because in the 80s a completely different to display new reformulated the whole company and you read it through the 90s as it became one of the most Iconic Companies and American History in antiu. S. A result are one of the most iconic entreprenuers in American History by any measure, of our generation. We can stop there and call the day. [laughter] half of americans to connected to the internet. It became so popular theyve made a movie about it. Then there is the big merger with time warner and to be very successful business person from that Investment Fund and investment of startup companies, the other
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