It’s fair to say that without Alibaba.com, there would be no Alibaba Group. The group’s oldest and most-venerable e-commerce platform was at the heart of what Jack Ma and his fellow founders started up in 1999. The 2020 version of the B2B platform has become a global, digital marketplace matching buyers and sellers. It is – among other things – an end-to-end platform for U.S. small and medium-sized businesses looking to go global.