ALIBABA'S TAOBAO

STUDY CASE
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS COMUNICATION
SEPTEMBER 20TH, 2018

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 TAOBAO'S ORGANIZATION CHART

Mònica Ferrer Llorens Cristina Rodriguez Alcaya

Co-Founder of Taobao Co-Founder of Taobao

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 SUMMARY

What is Taobao?
Taobao's Background Timeline
Taobao's success in China
What makes Taobao different
Where are we now?

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 INTRODUCTION
TAOBAO
CONCLUSION

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 WHAT IS TAOBAO
15 year-old social commerce platform in C2C segment
Launched in 2003
Part of Alibaba Group businesses
China's largest mobile commerce destination
World's biggest e-commerce website
In March 2018, Taobao had over 617 million monthly
active users
1 billion products listed in 2016

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 TAOBAO'S BACKGROUND TIMELINE

1999 2003 2005 2007

Alibaba Group & Taobao Strategic partnership IPO in HK &

Alibaba.com.cn (1688.com) with Yahoo! Alimama

2008 2009 2010 2016

Taobao Mall Alibaba Cloud & AliExpress Worldwide largest

(Tmall) B2C 10th anniversary  retail company

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 INTRODUCTION
TAOBAO
CONCLUSION

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 TAOBAO'S SUCCESS IN CHINA

Market Shares of C2C Marketplaces 2010

80%

Source: Company documents from Harvard Case Study Alibaba-Tabobao

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 WHAT MAKES TAOBAO DIFFERENT

MARKETPLACE
TRUST FEES
DESIGN

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 MARKET PLACE DESIGN

Source: Screenshot of www.world.taobao.com

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 TRUST

1 Registration 2 Feedback 3 Alipay

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 TAOBAO FEES POLICY

Before Now

FREE OF FEES Zhao Cai Jin Bao

Monetization Model

                        charged Chinese sellers transaction

fees of up to 2% of the item's value

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 INTRODUCTION
TAOBAO
CONCLUSION

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 WHERE ARE WE NOW

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ALIBABA'S TAOBAO
STUDY CASE
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS COMUNICATION
SEPTEMBER 20TH, 2018

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