TIME100 AI 2026 · Leaders
Eddie Wu
CEO, Alibaba
Alibaba's CEO is one of its co-founders and was the company's technology director when it started in 1999.
- Born
- 1975
- Now
- Co-founder and CEO, Alibaba
- Studied
- Zhejiang University of Technology
Interesting facts
- Before AI
Served as chief technology officer of payments arm Alipay from 2004 and of shopping site Taobao from 2008.
alibabagroup.com - Side project
Founded his own venture capital firm, Vision Plus Capital, in 2015 to invest in advanced technology and digital healthcare.
alibabagroup.com - Numbers
In his first 15 months as CEO, Alibaba spent 81 billion yuan on capital investment, up from 34 billion yuan in the months before.
en.wikipedia.org - Numbers
By mid-2026 Alibaba's AI products had grown at triple-digit rates for 12 quarters in a row, passing a $7.3 billion annual run rate.
alizila.com - In their words
Argues machine intelligence is not a substitute for human intelligence but "an entirely different species."
alizila.com
Career
- AlibabaCo-founder and CEO1999 to now
- Vision Plus CapitalFounder2015 to now
Education
- Information engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, 1996
Sources1alibabagroup.com