First of all, you should understand what a family business is. Family business refers to an enterprise whose capital or shares are mainly controlled by one family, and whose members hold the main leadership positions. Family business can be said to be an ancient and "short-lived" enterprise organization form. Judging whether an enterprise is a family business is not based on whether the enterprise is named after a family, or whether there are several relatives in the top leaders of the enterprise, but on whether there are any families who have ownership, who generally owns shares and how much. This definition emphasizes the ownership of enterprises.

Sun Zhizhen, a scholar, regards whether he has the right to operate the business as the essential feature of the family business. In his view, the family business takes the management right as the core. When a family or several closely related families directly or indirectly control the management right of an enterprise, it is a family business. Alibaba's partner system was established by 18 people, so it should not be said to be a family business. It is said that Alibaba's largest shareholder is not Ma Yun, but Ma Yun is the largest individual shareholder, holding 8%. Both Japanese and Americans have more than 50% shares, and other employees and partners have more than 30% shares.

Ma Yun is comparable to the man of the hour in the Internet industry. His every move will affect the development pattern of the Internet. It can be said that Ma Yun has a great influence on the Internet circle. In particular, some decisions made by Ma Yun will directly affect the interests of many people. Ma Yun founded Alibaba, and some people who started businesses with him are now billionaires.

As the helm of Ali, some of Ma Yun's decisions are really related to other people's rice bowls and outlets, so we generally think that Ma Yun will be very cautious every time he makes a decision, but it is not. In some interviews with Ma Yun, we can see that Ma Yun is not such a thoughtful person, but Ma Likun's 0.438+0 second decision.