Alibaba

9 statements across 4 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Dec 29, 2021 by David Friedberg · said 69 times in 36 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Everything said about Alibaba, oldest first

Dec 29, 2021 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
David Friedberg predicts Stripe will execute the largest tech IPO in history
“And so Stripe's IPO could be the biggest tech IPO ever. I think they've been talking about doing a direct listing. By the way, I don't know the guys. I don't know the investors. I don't know the company. I'm not an investor. So I don't have any information wha…”
David Friedberg Dec 29, 2021 ▶ 20:44 E61: 2022 Predictions! Business, politics, science, tech, crypto, & more
Jan 18, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Mark Pincus discloses purchasing Alibaba and other Chinese equities
“I've been loading up on Alibaba, a couple Chinese names.”
Mark Pincus Jan 18, 2025 ▶ 1:19:09 Red-pilled Billionaires, LA Fire Update, Newsom's Price Caps, TikTok Ban, Jobless MBAs
Oct 8, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Tsai: Alibaba launched 1.7B, 4B, and 8B parameter models for edge devices
“A lot of the companies, including ourselves, have launched models that are smaller, you know, not the trillion parameter models, but, you know, we have a model that's 1.7 billion parameters, another that's four, another that's eight billion for like mobile dev…”
Joe Tsai Oct 8, 2025 ▶ 18:14 Alibaba's Joe Tsai on US-China Rivalry, AI Future, Owning the Nets/Liberty, Caitlin Clark's Impact
Oct 8, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Joe Tsai says AI efficiency reduces Alibaba's hiring needs
“It's definitely made our operations more, more efficient, so we actually can, we don't have to hire as many people.”
Joe Tsai Oct 8, 2025 ▶ 20:15 Alibaba's Joe Tsai on US-China Rivalry, AI Future, Owning the Nets/Liberty, Caitlin Clark's Impact
Oct 8, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Joe Tsai estimates AI writes roughly 30% of Alibaba's code
“I think the answer I get is all over the map, depending on which department you make, you ask, but I think it's maybe 30% at this point.”
Joe Tsai Oct 8, 2025 ▶ 21:38 Alibaba's Joe Tsai on US-China Rivalry, AI Future, Owning the Nets/Liberty, Caitlin Clark's Impact
Oct 8, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Joe Tsai: ByteDance is one of Alibaba's fiercest e-commerce competitors
“The parent company of TikTok, ByteDance, they're doing e-commerce. They're not known as an e-commerce company, but they are one of our fiercest competitors.”
Joe Tsai Oct 8, 2025 ▶ 9:06 Alibaba's Joe Tsai on US-China Rivalry, AI Future, Owning the Nets/Liberty, Caitlin Clark's Impact
Oct 8, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Tsai refocused Alibaba to target two core businesses: e-commerce and cloud/AI
“The first thing I said is we can't talk about our company as being in six different businesses. That's just too confusing. We're in two businesses, e-commerce and cloud computing, you know, with an AI element in it.”
Joe Tsai Oct 8, 2025 ▶ 22:19 Alibaba's Joe Tsai on US-China Rivalry, AI Future, Owning the Nets/Liberty, Caitlin Clark's Impact
Oct 8, 2025 positive
Opinion
Joe Tsai: China's tech regulatory environment is now predictable and better
“Now we kind of are in a new normal where we are, we believe that the regulatory environment is more predictable. We know what the red lines are and we know where to go, where not to go, and it's actually made a better operating environment because of the predi…”
Joe Tsai Oct 8, 2025 ▶ 9:48 Alibaba's Joe Tsai on US-China Rivalry, AI Future, Owning the Nets/Liberty, Caitlin Clark's Impact
May 15, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Benioff: Salesforce operates in China exclusively through Alibaba partnership
“We don't have any offices or employees in China, we never have. The only time we end up with any residue in China is when we buy a company, and they have a presence over there, and then we have to divest from it. We have an exclusive partnership with Alibaba, …”
Marc Benioff May 15, 2026 ▶ 10:00 Trump-Xi Summit, Benioff: "Not My First SaaSpocalypse," OpenAI vs Apple, Multi-Sensory AI, El Niño
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