????阿里巴巴有何過人之處？

????阿里巴巴是中國最大的電子商務公司，在中國人的日常生活中扮演重要角色。其業務模式類似于eBay，扮演著買家和賣家之間的中間人角色。阿里巴巴上一年年收入85億美元，通過其網站銷售的產品價值超過3,000億美元，今年，銷售額還將大幅增長。二季度收入增長46%，其中很大一部分來自移動設備端交易的銷售額強勁增長。

????而且，阿里巴巴在B2B領域也非常成功，而亞馬遜和eBay尚未在這一領域取得突破。大小企業都能通過阿里巴巴的網絡銷售平臺訂購辦公用品，從普通的打印紙和鉛筆，到更為復雜的定制汽車發動機和零件。批發收入在總收入中占比仍較小（11.8%），但對阿里巴巴而言是一個潛在增長領域。

????阿里巴巴在培養女性高管方面也成績驕人。該公司18位創始人中有三分之一是女性，彭蕾和武衛兩位女性高管更是阿里巴巴IPO的幕后推手。

????阿里巴巴是否值得投資

????這是一個極為重要又難以回答的問題。《財富》（Fortune）雜志的史蒂夫?甘德爾和肖恩?杜利在電視上進行了辯論。甘德爾表示，阿里巴巴的股票最終可能遠超華爾街銀行家給出的估值。與之相反，杜利建議不要買入阿里巴巴股票：阿里巴巴可能正邁向成功，但這不足以證明該公司值得投資。兩人誰對誰錯？答案很快就將揭曉。（財富中文網）

????譯者：Irene

????What’s so great about Alibaba?

????Alibaba is China’s largest e-commerce company–and a big part of daily Chinese life. It has a business model similar to eBay in that it acts as a middleman between buyers and sellers. Alibaba had an annual revenue of $8.5 billion on over $300 billion worth of goods sold on its sites, and its sales are on track to well surpass that this year. Second quarter revenue grew 46%, much of that due to strong sales growth through transaction on mobile devices.

????Alibaba has also successfully gone where Amazon and eBay have yet to break through: business-to-business products. Alibaba’s online sales platform lets businesses – big and small – to order supplies, from vanilla copy paper and pencils to more elaborate custom-built car engines and parts. Wholesale revenues are still a small piece of the overall –11.8% of total revenue–but represents an area of potential growth for the online retailer.

????The Chinese retailer has a standout track record for developing talented women in its top ranks. A third of Alibaba’s 18 co-founders are women, and two top females, Lucy Peng and Maggie Wu, are the duo responsible for the company’s IPO behind the scenes.

????So, is Alibaba a good investment?

????This is the billion dollar question. Fortune’s Stephen Gandel and Shawn Tully sat down to battle it out on camera. Gandel says that shares of the Chinese retailer might end up being worth much more than Wall Street bankers seem to think. Tully, on the other hand, says stay away: Alibaba may be on its way to success, but that’s not nearly nearly enough to make it a good investment. We’ll soon find out who was right.