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The Unusual Monsters of jd.com and Alibaba

Jd.com and Alibaba have basically become kind of slightly ugly monsters in the sense that they've got these sprawling business units employing hundreds of thousands, actually over a million people. These big conglomerates start looking a little bit unwieldy and they start falling out of buckets instead of into buckets. The more what happens, you know, this happens across startups and big businesses,. What happens when you're running seven businesses, you lose focus.

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