Your staff should be more skilled than you, Jack Ma tips Kenyan startups

Jack Ma met Kenyan businessmen and women's thirst for insight with unconventional tips on how he grew Alibaba Group. PHOTO | DANN MWANGI | NMG

“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.

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