蔡崇信

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Andrew Ross Sorkin, 蔡崇信，为阿里巴巴IPO运筹帷幄的人. 纽约时报中文网, Jan 15, 2014
cn.nytimes.com/business/20140115/c15sorkin/

, which is translated from

Andrew Ross Sorkin, The Man Behind a Global Behemoth's Eventual IPO; With a smile, an Alibaba executive tries to temper sky-high expectations. New York Times, Jan 14, 2014

the first four paragraphs:

"JPMorgan Chase has called. So has Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Joe Tsai’s phone is ringing off the hook these days, and you would be forgiven if you have never heard of him.

"Mr Tsai is not even a chief executive, but he has become arguably the most sought-after executive in the world by Wall Street for one reason: He holds the keys to what will most likely be the largest initial public offering of this generation — Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant.

"Alibaba dwarfs Amazon.com by sales volume — $160 billion in 2012 compared with $86 billion for Amazon, according to RetailNet Group. Its IPO could value the company at more than $150 billion, more than the IPO value of either Facebook or Google. Along with that — and this is where Wall Street comes in — will come billions of dollars in fees for the lucky underwriters.

"It is Mr Tsai, a Taiwanese-born former lawyer who was educated at Yale, and not Alibaba’s more famous founder, Jack Ma, who is making the big decisions on the I.P.O. And that has made him Mr Popularity among the investment banking elite.

My comment: There is no need to read the rest.