Robin Li

Founder and CEO, Baidu

Birth DetailsNovember 17, 1968 | Yangquan, China

NationalityChinese

LeagueEntrepreneur

EducationMSc, Computer Science, University of Buffalo

Net Worth$11.8 billion (As of March 27, 2021)

Robin Li's Assets:

Baidu

Robin Li's Journey so far ...

A native of China's Shanxi province, Robin Li went to Peking University from where he graduated in Information Management and earned a master's degree from the University of Buffalo in computer science
He started his career with the Dow Jones & Company as a software engineer and went on to develop RankDex search engine in 1996 for which he got a US patent. He pioneered search engine indexing that used hyperlinks
Li returned to China in 1999 and the following year he co-founded search engine Baidu, a Google clone with Eric Xu, based on the RankDex technology
The computer scientist, whose parents were factory workers, led Baidu to its IPO in 2005 and the Internet giant made a stunning debut on the NASDAQ as its stock price more than quadrupled
The Chinese netizens loved Baidu and within a few years it became the dominant search engine in the country with the local media naming it 'Chinese Google'
Baidu, together with Alibaba and Tencent, constitutes the BAT triumvirate - China's top three Internet giants that are challenging US tech titans like Google, Facebook and Amazon
Its market share increased massively in the world's biggest online market at the expense of Google after the US tech giant quit China in 2010 due to the nation's censorship laws
Under the leadership of Li, Baidu entered other emerging segments of technology like artificial intelligence-driven products, video, online-to-offline services and food delivery. In 2019, it tied up with Geely and Toyota for self-driving cars, Li named the project Apollo
In 2019, Baidu reported its first quarterly loss since going public in 2005; Li cited a "challenging market environment" as one of the reasons

Before you go ...

He called Google's exit from China as a predictable gift
Li faced huge criticism from New York's Acacia Partners for trying to buy iQiyi, Baidu's video division
When Larry Page applied for Google PageRank patent, he cited Li's RankDex as the first qualitative search engine
The tech magnate believes that one day AI will reduce human dependence on mobile phones

Last Updated: 27/03/2021

Robin Li News

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BYD says to build second EU factory despite EV slowdown, to make hybrid carsChinese electric vehicle giant BYD is still committed to building a second factory in Europe and will roll out hybrid cars as the EV market slows down, a group executive told AFP. Stella Li, vice president for Europe and the Americas, also shrugged off a European Union probe that could lead to tariffs on Chinese EVs. "When your competition worries about you, that means that you're super good," Li said in an interview Thursday at the Top Marques auto show in Monaco. That means that Chinese cars have a good quality and are very competitive, accessible," Li said.
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