Robin Li is co-founder of the Chinese Search-Engine and eCommerce giant Baidu. Interested in computer sciences since high school he pursued knowledge in universities and finding practical experiences in Silicon Valley – all that to found Baidu and taking it to the major league of technology organisations in only a few years.
Quick Biography
- 1968: Born in Yangquan, Shanxi, China
- 1987: Obtained the best score of his city, in high school computer science exam
- 1991 : Bachelor of Science in Information Management (Peking University)
- 1994: Master of Computer Science (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA)
- 1994: Senior Consultant at IDD Information Services (division of Dow Jones & Company)
- 1995: Marriage with Dongmin “Melissa” Ma (in New Jersey, USA)
- 1997: Senior Engineer at InfoSeek
- 1998: Writing the book “Silicon Valley Business War”
- 1999: Received US patent for a hyperlink analysis system
- 1999: Watching a feature interview of Jerry Yang (Yahoo! founder) in Stanford University, which inspired him to found Baidu and the thought was “pushed” by wife Melissa
- 2000: Founding Baidu, being chairman (Co-founder Eric Xu was CEO and resigned in 2004, handing the CEO title to Robin)
- 2005: Baidu became a NASDAQ-listed public company
- 2007: Baidu is first Chinese company to be included in the NASDAQ-100 Index
- 2013: Member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference
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