# Eddie Wu

CEO, Alibaba. TIME100 AI 2026, Leaders. Alibaba's CEO is one of its co-founders and was the company's technology director when it started in 1999. ([alibabagroup.com](https://www.alibabagroup.com/about-alibaba-leadership-1637927598568767488))

- Born: 1975 ([baike.baidu.com](https://baike.baidu.com/en/item/Wu%20Yongming/18141))
- Education: Information engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, 1996 ([alibabagroup.com](https://www.alibabagroup.com/about-alibaba-leadership-1637927598568767488))
- Career: Alibaba (Co-founder and CEO, 1999 to now); Vision Plus Capital (Founder, 2015 to now) ([alibabagroup.com](https://www.alibabagroup.com/about-alibaba-leadership-1637927598568767488), [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Wu))
- TIME profile: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/eddie-wu/
- Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/most-influential-people-in-ai/eddie-wu

- Was one of Alibaba's 19 co-founders and its technology director when the company started in 1999. ([alibabagroup.com](https://www.alibabagroup.com/about-alibaba-leadership-1637927598568767488))
- Served as chief technology officer of payments arm Alipay from 2004 and of shopping site Taobao from 2008. ([alibabagroup.com](https://www.alibabagroup.com/about-alibaba-leadership-1637927598568767488))
- Founded his own venture capital firm, Vision Plus Capital, in 2015 to invest in advanced technology and digital healthcare. ([alibabagroup.com](https://www.alibabagroup.com/about-alibaba-leadership-1637927598568767488))
- 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Wu))
- 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](https://www.alizila.com/aliviews-eddie-wu-on-alibabas-q1-earnings/))
- Argues machine intelligence is not a substitute for human intelligence but "an entirely different species." ([alizila.com](https://www.alizila.com/aliviews-eddie-wu-shares-alibabas-strategic-full-stack-ai-roadmap-at-the-2026-apsara-conference/))