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1st VIDEO

0–21: The traditional marketplace has seen little change over the past few 100 years. You've got a buyer.
You've got a seller. Which then leads to a transaction. But over the past couple of decades things have
started to change at an unprecedented pace. And perhaps no company is reshaping that experience
more than Alibaba.

24–53: Alibaba is one of the world's largest retailers. The company has more than 500 million people
using its shopping apps every month and if you're thinking its scale is limited to China, well think again. It
has operations in more than 200 countries. The company was founded by CEO Jack Ma in 1999 with 17
other people. And he knew he was onto something big. "When I have a competitor like Google or eBay,
as a Chinese local company, we can learn a lot, we can improve ourselves. They shoud be careful for us,"
Jack Ma said.

55–1:02: Alibaba set the record for the biggest IPO in history, which took place at the New York Stock
Exchange in 2014.

1:12–1:18: Alibaba is amongst other global eCommerce giants transforming the marketplace from
this,to this.

3:22–3:35: Alibaba's growth is primarily fueled by China's massive population and rising middle class,
but Jack Ma wants world domination for the company. That's why Alibaba is investing heavily in
companies in other market as well. Most of which are also being pursued by Amazon.

3:36–3:43: The marketplace as we know it has changed forever. And it's likely going to be companies like
Alibaba which continues to lead its evolution.
2ND VIDEO

0–15: AliExpress, there's only one app for sales and discounts. Narrator: The Chinese e-commerce giant,
Alibaba, has big global plans. One major goal. To deliver goods from China, to anywhere on the planet in
72 hours.

20–22: Amazon and Alibaba are both looking to capture a larger share of the global e-commerce market,
which is expected to grow by $1.4 trillion by 2025.

28–30: - It's all execution. It's who's faster on the ground, it's who's focused where.

34–41: And fast shipping plus cheaper prices is a big part of winning new customers.

50–58: Alibaba gave us a look at its largest automated warehouse in China as its plans.

1:12-1:20: Ping Tu oversees daily operations in this warehouse run by Alibaba’s logistics company,
Cainiao. He says robots here do all the heavy work.

1:43-1:50: E-commerce analysts say this was more than all of e-commerce sales during Black-Friday,
Cyber Monday and Amazon’s Prime Day combined.

1:51-2:27: But Alibaba isn’t just an e-commerce company. It owns a vast empire of other tech businesses
and many of those parts help speed up the shipping process. So when you buy a product from its retail
website, Alibaba’s payment company can process the transaction and then the shipping is handled here.
This network allows Cainiao to quickly gather information digitally about your package, including the
price, weight and destination and then send it directly to Chinese customs to be cleared for export.

Over the years, this process has gotten faster, from taking one month to clear a package to now only a
few minutes.

2:39-2:54: The company relies on a global network of 3000 partner airlines, postal services and other
delivery companies to handle the actual transport. This allows Alibaba to expand its shipping routes with
new partners without having to build and maintain its own fleet.

3:41-3:50: So as the company tries to gain traction, it says it plans to expand the services to a wider
array of products and charge $3.

3:52-4:00: The company says this service will entice more people to its retail website. AliExpress looks
very similar to Amazon and users can browse more than 100 million items.

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