No. 1 Yahoo, No. 2 Masayoshi Son of Japan, No. 3 Jack Ma, No. 4 Joseph Tsai.

The largest shareholder of Alibaba is Masayoshi Son of Japan Softbank. Masayoshi Son invested $20 million in Jack Ma that year, and then added another $60 million. He holds more than 30% of Alibaba's shares and is currently the largest shareholder of Alibaba. However, in recent years, the situation of Masayoshi Son's Softbank is not good. Their investment returns in North America are not ideal. Masayoshi Son has repeatedly cashed out Alibaba's shares and currently still holds 29.2% of Alibaba's shares.

In 2005, Yahoo, with a book value of $3 billion, was looking for new Internet forces around the world. Jack Ma's Alibaba became one of the goals of Yahoo founder Jerry Yang. In the end, Yahoo acquired 40% of Alibaba's shares at the cost of $1 billion plus Yahoo China.

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Although Jack Ma only holds 7% of Alibaba's shares, it is presented in the form of "personal shareholding" and is the largest individual shareholder of Alibaba.

Although Alibaba has a huge market value, it has not yet created a world's richest man due to its dispersed equity.

Alibaba is a well-known brand of global business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce and is currently the world's largest online trading market and business exchange community.

Alibaba was founded at the end of 1998, with its headquarters in Hangzhou and branches in Silicon Valley, London, and other overseas locations. Alibaba is a well-known brand of global business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce and is currently the world's largest online trading market. With good positioning, a solid structure, and excellent services, Alibaba has become the world's first e-commerce website with 2.11 million merchants, and the preferred website for global merchants to promote their network. It has been rated by merchants as

"the most popular B2B website

".