Yale INSPIRE: Joe Tsai

Name: Yale INSPIRE: Joe Tsai
Start: 2023-12-01T17:00:55.829-05:00
End: 2023-12-01T18:30:55.829-05:00
Location: Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale, 17 Prospect St, New Haven, CT 06511, USA

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Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale, 17 Prospect St, New Haven, CT 06511, USA

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Tsai CITY, in collaboration with The Yale Entrepreneurial Society, organizes a monthly speaker series featuring esteemed founders and entrepreneurs from diverse industries and backgrounds. Open to the entire student body - both undergraduate and graduate students, each hour-long fireside session provides a unique opportunity to engage with and learn how to foster a culture of innovation on campus.

Join us for a conversation with Joe Tsai ‘90, co-founder and executive vice chairman of Alibaba Group, a global Internet technology company based in China.

About Joe Tsai: Joe Tsai serves on the boards of directors of Alibaba Group and its financial services affiliate, Ant Group. His career at Alibaba spans over 20 years, during which he was the company’s chief financial officer and oversaw strategic investments. A founding member of Alibaba Partnership, Tsai is Governor of the Brooklyn Nets (NBA) and New York Liberty (WNBA), and is Chairman of the teams’ home arena, Barclays Center. He owns the San Diego Seals, a professional indoor lacrosse team in the National Lacrosse League and has investments in the Premier Lacrosse League and Los Angeles FC of Major League Soccer. Tsai played high school football and lacrosse at The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey. He was a member of the varsity lacrosse team at Yale and has been a consistent supporter of the Yale men’s and women’s lacrosse programs. In 2017, Tsai received the George H.W. Bush ‘48 Lifetime of Leadership Award from Yale University. Through the Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation, Tsai and his wife Clara Wu Tsai are active philanthropists supporting initiatives in education, research, criminal justice reform, the arts and, most recently, humanitarian relief during the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to founding Alibaba Group, Tsai was a private equity investor with Investor AB of Sweden’s Wallenberg family. He is a graduate of Yale College (BA ’86) and Yale Law School (JD ’90), and practiced tax law as an associate with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York from 1990 to 1993.