Crocodile in the Yangtze (2012)

Crocodile in the Yangtze follows Chinas first Internet entrepreneur and former English teacher Jack Ma as he battles US giant eBay on the way to building Chinas first global Internet company Alibaba Group An independent memoir written directed and produced by an American who worked in Mas company for eight years Crocodile in the Yangtze captures the emotional ups and downs of life in a Chinese Internet startup at a time when the Internet brought China facetoface with the West Crocodile in the Yangtze draws on 200 hours of archival footage filmed by over 35 sources between 1995 and 2009 The film presents a strikingly candid portrait of Ma and his company told from the point of view of an American fly on a Chinese wall who witnessed the successes and the mistakes Alibaba encountered as it grew from a small apartment into a global company employing 16000 staff