Asia’s richest man, Jack Ma, the
billionaire founder and executive chairman of the Alibaba Group met with Donald
Trump on Monday to discuss plans for creating “one million” jobs in
the U.S. through the company’s e-commerce platform.
billionaire founder and executive chairman of the Alibaba Group met with Donald
Trump on Monday to discuss plans for creating “one million” jobs in
the U.S. through the company’s e-commerce platform.
“Jack plans to share how Alibaba will create 1 million U.S. jobs by
enabling 1 million small businesses to sell American goods to China and Asian
consumers on the Alibaba platform,” Brion Tingler, head of external
affairs at Alibaba, said in a statement after the meeting.
Trump praised Ma after the meeting as a “great, great entrepreneur and
one of the best in the world.”
“We had a great meeting,” Trump told the press pool at Trump
Tower. “It’s jobs. You just saw what happened with Fiat where they’re going
to build a massive plant in Michigan. And we’re very happy. And Jack and I are
going to do some great things.”
