Ding Lei, the chief architect of Netease Company, founded Netease Company in June 1997, which developed Netease from a private enterprise with more than a dozen people into a well-known Internet technology enterprise with nearly 300 employees publicly listed in the United States today. In March 2000, Ding Lei resigned as CEO and became co-CEO of Netease. In March of 20001year, he became the chief architect, focusing on the design and planning of the company's long-term strategy. Before founding Netease, Ding Lei was a technical engineer in China Telecom, and later worked as a technical support engineer in Sybase, an American database software company. Ding Lei graduated from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China with a bachelor's degree in engineering. Xinhuanet Zhejiang Channel August 6 th Last week, Netease announced its financial report for the second quarter of this year, and its share price soared to 52.2 1 USD. Calculated at $50 per share, Netease's market value has reached $654.38+57 million, and founder Ding Lei holds 58% of the shares, with a book value of about 7.5 billion RMB. Last year, Rong Zhijian of CITIC Pacific and Xu Rongmao of Shimao Group ranked the top two in Chinese mainland's rich list with personal assets of 7.035 billion yuan and 6.456 billion yuan respectively. In the first two years after Netease was founded, Ding Lei focused on developing Internet application software, among which 1997 1 1 launched the first bilingual email system in China. In March 2000, Ding Lei resigned as CEO and became co-CEO of Netease. In March of 20001year, he became the chief architect, focusing on the design and planning of the company's long-term strategy.