# Porter Erisman

> Porter Erisman, Author - Alibaba's World + Six Billion Shoppers. 1 investment on record. The rounds they were named in and the filings that name them, each...

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Tokyo, JP · Angel

# Porter Erisman

Author - Alibaba's World + Six Billion Shoppers

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Stages *Seed*

Latest rounds

- **Piethis.com** Seed · $800k Aug 2013

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Profile summary

- **Rounds named:** 1 last Aug 2013
- **Filings:** - with regulators
- **Books:** 2 written

What this record rests on

- ✓ **Named in rounds** 1 round name them
- **On filings** No filing names them
- **Linked to a firm** No firm on record
- **Claimed** Not claimed yet

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## Rounds they were named in

- **Rounds:** 1
- **Led:** 0
- **Disclosed:** $800k
- **Active:** 2013

2013

- [Piethis.com](https://millionrounds.com/company/piethis-com) *Seed* **$800k** *SG* Aug 2013 Joined · +8 investors · historical

By stage

- Seed **1**

Alongside

- Chris Evdemon *1*
- David Webster *1*
- Diederik Zwager *1*
- [Digital Garage *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/digital-garage-tse-4819)
- [Peng T. Ong *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/peng-t-ong)
- [Publicis Groupe *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/publicis-groupe)
- [Siemer Ventures *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/siemer-ventures)
- Steve Elrick *1*

Rounds where a report named this person rather than a firm, matched on name: read it as a strong hint, not proof, since people share names.

## Their books

- Alibaba's World: How a Remarkable Chinese Company is Changing the Face of Global Business Porter Erisman · 2015 3.89 from 2,104 ratings on Goodreads About the book **Selected as one of the Best Business Books of 2015 by the Wall Street Journal ** In September 2014, a Chinese company that most Americans had never heard of held the largest IPO in history – bigger than Google, Facebook and Twitter combined. Alibaba, now the world's largest… On AmazonListen on Audible
- Six Billion Shoppers: The Companies Winning the Global E-Commerce Boom Porter Erisman · 2017 4.09 from 399 ratings on Goodreads About the book "From China to India to Nigeria, e-commerce is entering a golden era in countries that were long left out of the e-commerce gold rush experienced in the West. If the story of the first twenty years of e-commerce’s growth was set in developed markets, the story of the next twenty… On AmazonListen on Audible

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