When asked today about the experience, Whitman can only tip her hat to Jack’s achievements. “If you look at Japan and China, two important markets, it’s where we didn’t strategically, actually do the right thing. But it was not obvious at the time, honestly. So more power to Jack Ma, what a powerful franchise he has built—and it is really in some ways the combination . . . of eBay, PayPal, and Amazon. He’s done a remarkable, remarkable job.”
