Jack Ma
person on 20 shows · 10 statements across 9 episodes · said 180 times in 76 episodes since 2017
All-In 49 
Top Founders 18 
20VC 17 
the Neon Show 14 
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Big Technology 12 
My First Million 11 
American Optimist 10 
Another Podcast 8 
the a16z Podcast 8 
TBPN 8 
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Founder's Journal 1 
We Live to Build 1 
the Knowledge Project 1 
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A Product Market Fit Show 1 
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2026 19 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
- She Bought a Bank for $56M. It's Now Worth $1.5 BILLION · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Dario Defends Himself, Datacenter Panic, AI Doomer Trap, Senate Toss-Up
- The Comms Strategist Behind Anduril, Shopify & Cognition | Lulu Cheng Meservey
- DeepSeek Raises at $50B | The Rise of Open Source vs OpenAI & Anthropic | OpenAI Builds Own Chip · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- What Went Wrong Before iD Fresh Worked | For the First Time Co-Founders Tell Their Story
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2025 59 mentions in 21 episodes 3 per episode
- Alibaba's Joe Tsai on US-China Rivalry, AI Future, Owning the Nets/Liberty, Caitlin Clark's Impact
- OpenAI's GPT-5 Flop, AI's Unlimited Market, China's Big Advantage, Rise in Socialism, Housing Crisis
- Why China's AI Strategy Just Might Work — With Grace Shao
- Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Condoleezza Rice: U.S. Tech at Risk Amid University Cuts, China Threat
- DOGE updates + Liberation Day Tariff Reactions with Ben Shapiro and Antonio Gracias
- The FULL HISTORY of Temu (Why it's EXPLODING!)
- Weekly Recap: Apple Debuts iPhone 17, Einstein of Wall Street, YC Demo Day, Declining AI Adoption
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2024 22 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode
- $10 Trillion Goal, Reverse Brain Drain & IPO Market I Nansi & Siddhartha On India’s Bright Future
- Marc & Ben on AI Policy, Safety, Censorship & Unexpected Risks
- He Predicted Putin's Invasion. Now He Predicts When China Will Invade Taiwan. · Joe Lonsdale
- Imran Khan: Why the IPO Market is Not Closed & Lessons From Taking Snap & Alibaba Public | E1194 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- AI Predictions for 2025: Geopolitics, Agents, and Data Scaling — With Alexandr Wang
- Rajiv Sikri Former MEA Secretary On India-US Relations, Pakistan's Decline & Bangladesh
- Economist Vs. Billionaire: How The Myth Of Income Inequality Is Dividing America · Joe Lonsdale
- Matt Clifford: The Bull & Bear Case for China's Ability to Challenge the US' AI Capabilities | E1172 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2023 14 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- 99 Years of Charlie Munger Wisdom in 52 Minutes (#525)
- Larry Summers: How the Fed screwed up; What a Trump win would do to the economy | E1024 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Ep 57: Balaji Srinivasan on the Severity of the Bank Crisis and the Future of Bitcoin · Joe Lonsdale
- PM Modi’s Economic Advisor On Kolkata’s Decline, Amrit Kaal & $10 Trillion Economy I Sanjeev Sanyal
- This Hedge Fund Manager Got Away With Insider Trading… Then Made Billions (#509)
- Aspiring India, What Indians LOVE & How Chaayos Began! ft. Chaayos Founder Raghav Verma | Neon Show
- Is $200k on $6m valuation too rich for this tool that helps Retailers heat map and launch promotions in their stores?
- E113: DOJ tries to break up Google, vaccine questions, Ukraine escalation & more
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2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2021 41 mentions in 15 episodes 3 per episode
- E42: China's tech crackdown, CRISPR breakthrough, practical climate change solutions & more
- Fitness Hotels, Steel-Manning, and Why the Creator Economy is Overhyped
- E18: Inauguration talk, breaking down the $1.9T stimulus, the case for recalling Gavin Newsom & more
- Tech in china, from inside and outside
- Regulation - Who will notice?
- E28: Current state of public & private markets, Archegos debacle, US debt issues, wealth tax & more
- E60: The 2021 Bestie Awards PLUS Jack Dorsey starts the Web3 Wars
- Niall Ferguson: Why Great Civilizations Rise and Fall · Joe Lonsdale
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2020 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2019 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- 1606 The Right Way To Use Venture Debt to Hit $320k in MRR
- 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 15 | Amit Somani, Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners
- 1508 With $1.2m in MRR, They're Making Truck Fleets More Efficient
- a16z Podcast | Things Come Together -- Truths about Tech in Africa
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2018 11 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
2017 1 mention in 1 episode
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10 statements about Jack Ma, every show
Reses: Yahoo and Alibaba stopped speaking despite Yahoo's 40% stake
“If you remember, there was this dynamic where Carol Bartz had been in this contentious fight with Jack Ma that was widely chronicled, and the two companies stopped talking to each other, even though Yahoo owned 40% of Alibaba.”
Andreessen: Alibaba filed notice reassigning Jack Ma's voting shares to unnamed citizens
“They put out a revised financial statement the summer after they defenestrated Jack Ma, and they announced that the Jack Ma, Jack and his CFO, their voting shares had been reassigned to a set of, I think it was four unnamed other People's Republic of China cit…”
Phil Gramm: China Destroyed Half Its Tech Equity Value Attacking Jack Ma
“When government can't stand someone like Ma, and they attack him and destroy half the equity value of the tech industry in China, You're going to have an impact on growth.”
Alibaba Pitch Framed Company as eBay, Amazon, and PayPal of China
“The story was positioned very simply that, hey, it's the China consumer play, and they are the eBay plus Amazon plus PayPal of China.”
Matt Clifford: CCP Restrictions Hinder China From Producing Untrammeled AGI Founders
“And I think in China, as we've seen in other parts of the tech industry in China, the CCP is very nervous about entrepreneurs being given that much room. And so I think that it's not trivial to create the conditions in which a Chinese Sam Altman or a Chinese D…”
Huffington: Jack Ma urged her to leave HuffPost and found Thrive
“That night, Jack had a speaker's dinner, and during that dinner, he said to me, you know, if I were you, I would leave the Huffington Post and launch a new company around Thrive, because he said there is no market leader, and the biggest crisis going on in Chi…”
Jack Ma: Former Military Leaders Make The Best Chinese Manufacturing CEOs
“You know, the rigor of operations that you need in business. Like there's no better training for that than the rigors of military and the systems and the timing and the production, the detail oriented nature. He's like, so any manufacturing business in China t…”
Puri: Great managers prioritize subordinates' success like teachers prioritize students
“A teacher is one of the only professions where The success of the student matters more than the success of the teacher. Like they care more that they're the people under them succeed. He goes in management. That is, you know, the best principle for breeding gr…”
Somani: Founders do not need sustainable 100-hour workweeks to succeed
“I'm actually not a believer in the, you know, Jack Ma, nine, nine, six philosophy. Yes, you should work hard. You have to work hard as an entrepreneur, right? But I don't think you need to you know, put in a hundred hours a week sustainably for, you know, two,…”