According to reports, Jack Ma, who rarely speaks about $Alibaba(BABA)$ 's business after retirement, recently held a high-level meeting within the Taotian Group. Jack Ma believes that Taotian Group is currently facing a highly challenging competitive situation. He cited Nokia and Kodak as examples, stating that it takes only six months to a year for a company to go from being an industry benchmark to death. In the internet industry, this process may be even faster. Jack Ma seems to think that the next opportunity lies with Taobao, not Tmall, and that Alibaba's e-commerce should "return to Taobao."Just half a year ago, Liu Qiangdong of $JD.com(JD)$ emphasized a "low-price strategy" during an internal meeting
Alibaba Splits Into Six Units That May Pursue Individual IPOs
Alibaba plans to split its $220 billion business into six main units, each of which will explore fundraising or initial public offerings when the time is right.