E-commerce has brought extensive and profound changes to our lives in the early 21st century, and has also made some people rich.

As the world's largest e-commerce company, Alibaba, who has made its money?

At the close of December 7, 2016, Alibaba's stock price was $91.07, with a market value of $221.316 billion.

The equity structure in the first half of 2016 was:

That is to say: Alibaba's management team holds 12.5% ​​of the shares, equivalent to $27.665 billion. Among them, Jack Ma holds 7.8%, equivalent to $17.263 billion; Joseph Tsai holds 3.2%, equivalent to $7.082 billion.

Then, there are two major shareholders: one is Japan's SoftBank, which holds 32% of the shares, equivalent to $70.821 billion; the other is Yahoo in the United States, which holds 15.4% of the shares, equivalent to $34.083 billion. The rest of the shares, about 40.1%, or $88.748 billion, are probably held by shareholders.

In 2000, SoftBank Group, led by Japanese Masayoshi Son, invested $20 million in Alibaba and invested an additional $60 million in 2004.

In June 2016, Son sold 4% of Alibaba's shares, making a profit of about $8 billion, and still holds 28% of Alibaba's shares, about $61.968 billion.

Son's SoftBank invested $80 million and made a profit of about $70 billion.

In 2005, Yahoo, founded by Chinese-American (born in Taiwan, China) Jerry Yang, invested $1 billion in Alibaba and owns 40% of Alibaba's shares.

In 2012, Alibaba repurchased about 20% of its shares from Yahoo for $7.6 billion.

After Alibaba went public on the New York Stock Exchange in September 2014, Yahoo cashed out about $8.28 billion and now still holds 15.4% of the shares, or $34.083 billion.

Yahoo invested $1 billion and made a profit of about $50 billion.

Currently, both Masayoshi Son's SoftBank and Jerry Yang's Yahoo are in crisis, but they are enjoying a good life thanks to their investment in Alibaba.