Alibaba announced a management adjustment in DingTalk: Chen Hang will step down as CEO of DingTalk, and Chen Yusen, a technology geek born in 1992, will take over. On the 10th, the Alibaba Partner Committee published a post on the company's intranet, "Alibaba culture is about love, righteousness, and growth." It expressed a clear attitude towards the discussion triggered by the recent long post "Being in DingTalk" written by employees who resigned from DingTalk. The Partner Committee criticized the DingTalk team’s management style in harsh terms, directly stating that this was “not what Alibaba’s culture should be.” Immediately afterwards, Alibaba Group announced adjustments to DingTalk’s management.
Born in 1992, Chen Yusen is a technology geek who became famous at a young age and a serial technology entrepreneur. He was selected into Forbes Asia's "30 Under 30" list. He has repeatedly won championships in top computer competitions at home and abroad. The network security company Changting Technology he founded when he was 22 years old was acquired by Alibaba Cloud. As a young manager with both technical strength and business judgment, he started his own business within Alibaba Cloud in 2025 and led the development of the AI Agent product MuleRun.
After taking over as CEO of DingTalk, Chen Yusen became Alibaba’s youngest business unit CEO.
Chen Yusen
Recently, Alibaba has continued to iterate its organization and management methods, facing the AI era with a new formation. In the past period of time, Alibaba has successively established new organizations such as Alibaba Token Hub (ATH) and Token Foundry to incubate AI innovation in a small team organization. These new organizations have begun to bear fruit. A series of innovations such as Happy Horse, Happy Oyster, MuleRun, and Qoder have emerged rapidly. A group of young technical talents have quickly emerged in a more open and diverse soil.
The Alibaba Partner Committee emphasized in a post the day before that "people are the most precious wealth" and "Alibaba's future lies in innovation. Innovation in the AI era relies on love and creativity. Only by fully respecting individual value can we truly create customer value and move towards the future."
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Alibaba Partner Committee intranet post: DingTalk management is “not what Alibaba culture should be”