Webit's hard to imagine amazon's jeff bezos, the richest man in the world, vanishing from the public eye for nearly three months. But it happened to one of his. Webbeijing | alibaba founder jack ma's absence from public view in the past two months, including missing the final episode of a tv show on which he was to appear as. Webjack ma was about to become the richest man in china. In november 2020, on the eve of another commercial success, the outspoken billionaire suddenly went missing. Ma's company alibaba has risen. Webma’s removal from the good books of the chinese authorities appears to have been even quicker than his rise to fame and fortune. The billionaire, who is known to. Webalibaba founder jack ma, who has rarely been seen in public in the past three years, has resurfaced at a school in hangzhou, a report says.