Claim · 1999 · snapshot · Stated in source · Supported

Alibaba Group’s Form 20-F of May 2026 says that Eddie Yongming Wu was technology director of Alibaba at the company’s inception in 1999.

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What it connects

Eddie Yongming Wu → held role at → Alibaba Group / 阿里巴巴集团

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Claim and evidence

Eddie Yongming Wuheld role at ↓Alibaba Group / 阿里巴巴集团

Machine-checked, not reviewed by an editorStated in sourceSupported

Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 1999 · snapshot Records dated 1999 →
Role: Technology director

Scope and limitsA retrospective snapshot; it does not establish how long he held the role.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

Alibaba Group Holding Limited annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) · 2026-05-20

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Source excerpt

“Mr. Wu was technology director of Alibaba at the company’s inception in 1999.”

Location in source Item 6.A, Directors and Senior Management, biography

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-30

Source details and check notes

Authors: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
Version: Dated document, retrieved on 2026-10-15 (SHA-256 92372a07fa713a3657e9d24527ce0a5d1d16c5ab11fd3b708122d7877c43982d) through the third-party reader relay r.jina.ai, which renders the publisher’s current page (the publisher refused direct retrieval); not an archive copy.
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Accessed: 2026-10-15
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Alibaba Group Holding Limited, “Alibaba Group Holding Limited annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026”, 2026-05-20.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: The quotation (13 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, PDF line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-30, item 25) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed with the record. No human editorial review.

Status and meaning

Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor. An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.

Relation. An institutional role with explicitly scoped time: snapshot, sourced interval, or unknown dates. No continuing appointment is implied.

Date. Year from the 20-F; no start or end of the role is given.

Record ID pp-ex-wu-alibaba-technology-director-1999