At the time, even if e-commerce development in the early United States, b to b mode is also unable to find a success story.Sohu CEO Victor Koo believe Ma's decision "is itself an upstream decision."
It was then, even in the early development of electronic commerce in the United States, B to B model also could not find a success story. So Sohu Victor Koo, president of Ma's decision "is a decision in itself against the current."