The president and CEO of the Alibaba group speaks at the Asia Society. Alibaba has over 13 million Chinese companies and 8 million foreign companies as members. They have over 12,000 employees and plan to hire 5,000 more this year.

Mr. Ma gives a very inspiring speech on the world financial crisis, the American Dream and what we can do now.

The video is long but the speech is only the first 20 minutes. An informative interview follows.