Jack Ma, the schoolteacher who co-founded Alibaba Group, so likes attention that in 2019 in front of 60,000 employees he donned oversized purple-tinged glasses, a studded leather jacket with chains and a braided long-haired wig, grabbed an orange electric guitar as a prop, and sang pop songs to mark the e-commerce giant’s 20th birthday.
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