No. 11 Jack Ma, founder and CEO, Alibaba.com
Last year's position: Not placed
Why? Making waves in online trading
Jack Ma debuts on the Agenda Setters list this year for building Alibaba.com, a homegrown China business-to-business auction site, into a worldwide phenomenon that is changing how people trade.
As one Agenda Setters panellist said: "You have people in Turkey trading with people in the UK who are trading with people in Russia - forget China. China is just the country that got it started."
The site complements eBay by appealing to 'powersellers' who buy stock in bulk on Alibaba.com and sell it on eBay for more money - and as with eBay, more and more people are making a living from trading on Alibaba.
Ma has also partnered with Yahoo! China and has had success with eBay competitor Taobao and PayPal competitor Alipay. Not bad for a guy who started his career as an English teacher.
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