“Hire people who are smarter than you are, and believe that they are,” China’s wealthiest man told a room full of eager entrepreneurs in Nairobi, drawing muted laughter and mumbles from the audience.
Founder and executive chairman of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, Jack Ma, met Kenyan businessmen and women's thirst for insight with unconventional tips on how he grew alibaba.com - which he started in his apartment in 1999.