Name: Ding Lei Nationality: Han Nationality Gender: Male Date of Birth:197 10 Birthplace: Ningbo, Zhejiang Graduated from: Chengdu University of Electronic Technology Work: Netease Company Position: Chief Architect Ding Lei/kloc-0 founded Netease Company in June 1997, and changed Netease from a/kloc-0. 1971June was born in Ningbo 1993, graduated from Chengdu University of Electronic Technology 1993~ 1995, and worked in Ningbo Telecommunications Bureau 1995-1996. Ding Lei, 65438, worked for Guangzhou Feijie Company.1Netease was founded in May 1997. In 2006, she became the richest IT person in China with 9 billion yuan, and together with Duan Yongping, she donated 40 million dollars to Zhejiang University to support education. Ding Lei, the chief architect of Netease Company, founded Netease Company in June 1997, developing Netease from a private enterprise with 10 employees to 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. & lt 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. 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's Road to Success When Ding Lei was studying at Chengdu University of Electronic Technology, his grades were always in the top five in his class. The reason why I didn't take the postgraduate entrance examination for such a good grade is because the 14th National Congress held in 1993 made Ding Lei feel it unnecessary to delay time at school. In the last semester of college, Ding Lei began to work as a part-time engineer in a computer company. Although he is a part-time engineer, he is the most important engineer in that company. There, Ding Lei, a communication major, first came into contact with new equipment such as Modem and WindowsNT. After graduation, Ding Lei returned to his hometown of Ningbo and worked as an engineer in Ningbo Telecommunications Bureau 1993 to 1995. The biggest gain of Ding Lei in two years is that he learned Unix and telecommunication services. "I leave my office almost every night 12 because my office has a Unix computer. Netease's subsequent success is inseparable from my mastery of the essence of Unix very early. " 1993, Ding Lei accidentally learned in a magazine that a BBS station named "Ham" was opened in Beijing. "At that time, there was little content on the website, but Ding Lei immediately realized that BBS was the future development direction. Ding, who landed on BBS for the first time, set up his own BBS station in Ningbo that night with the help of one of the founders of China Huiduo. 1994, Ding Lei logged on the internet for the first time, which was an account he asked for from his classmates in Institute of High Energy, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The first website that excited Ding Lei visited was Yahoo! , Yahoo! Make Ding Lei "feel good". Then Ding Lei went to an innovation company and downloaded many multimedia drivers. 1June 1995, Ding Lei became one of the former 100 users of Beijing Telecom. After three job-hopping, Ding Lei, who had "seen the world" on the Internet, suggested to his chief engineer to start information service in this bureau. After waiting for a while, he found no progress and decided to leave. 1In May, 995, Ding Lei came to Guangzhou and joined the newly established Guangzhou Sybase. After spending a year in Sybase, Ding Lei felt that he had made little progress except installing and debugging the database all day, so he chose to leave. 1in may, 1996, Ding Lei became the technical assistant to the general manager of an ISP in Guangzhou. In this ISP, he established the first "Firebird" BBS on Chinanet and made many friends. The good times didn't last long. Because of the fierce competition and high telecom charges, Ding Lei's ISP could hardly survive. 1May 1997, he had to choose to leave again. Ding Lei, who has jumped ship three times, thought about his future for five days in May of 1997 and finally decided to start his own business. " I don't know what my company will make money from now on. I just naively think that just write some software and do some system integration. This idea almost made the company unable to survive. "Netease started 500,000 businesses, part of which was accumulated by Ding Lei writing programs line by line in recent years, and the other part was borrowed from friends. It is best to have an internet server in the telecommunications bureau, which can do internet service. How to put your own server in the computer room of the telecommunications bureau without spending money? Ding Lei spared no effort to this end. Finally, Ding Lei showed the plan of "enriching Chinanet services and attracting online time" to Guangzhou Telecommunication Bureau. The plan points out that there are very few services on Chinanet now, so it can't attract users to surf the Internet. Even if users surf the Internet, they can't stay without good service. The BBS service provided by Netease can attract a large number of users to surf the Internet, and let netizens soak for hours. After listening to this plan, the leaders of Guangzhou Telecommunication Bureau thought it made sense-anyway, the Telecommunication Bureau didn't need to invest, and this service wouldn't compete with the Telecommunication Bureau, so they gave Netease an IP address and asked them to put the server in the Telecommunication Bureau. This practice was later called server hosting business, and the company had to pay a large sum of money to the telecommunications bureau a month, while Netease later paid only a part of the money to the Guangzhou Telecommunications Bureau. So far, Ding Lei is proud that his original plan was very well written, "almost touching any telecommunications bureau". On May 4th, 1997, Netease BBS was officially launched before Netease was formally established. Because Ding Lei was the first person to install Firebird BBS in China Net, and he frequented BBS, his personal influence, plus inaction and tolerance, the number of Netease BBS exceeded that of the senior "one-time love" within three months. Netease's server in Guangzhou Telecom Bureau is Pentium PRO, hard disk 18G, which was installed by Ding Lei himself at a cost of 20,000 yuan. Putting such a big hard disk just for Netease to promote a company's homepage and BBS is too wasteful, so Ding Lei decided to provide 20 megabytes of personal homepage space to netizens for free. To this end, Ding Lei has also specially compiled a personal homepage service system including the functions of a counter and a guest book. But no one came to Netease to apply for personal space. At that time, there were very few people who could make homepages, and Netease's influence was not big enough, which also hindered the confidence of netizens to put their homepages on Netease. So, Ding Lei began to look around the Internet for personal homepage, and found a good personal homepage, so he wrote an email to tell Netease that it could provide more personal homepage space. Since then, Netease has spent three months advertising on Beijing Online, Yinghaiwei and other five major domestic websites at that time, spending tens of thousands of yuan, and finally the number of people applying for personal homepages has surged. The company hasn't made money yet, so why spend it on a personal homepage that doesn't make money? Ding Lei's answer is a bit illogical: "If I had thought about how to make money by making websites, I might have gone the wrong way. I am deeply influenced by Linux, and I think the service should be free. I didn't expect the website to be profitable in the future. I just think that the hard disk is idle, so I'd better show it to everyone. My purpose is to make Netease famous, but I didn't expect it to be so famous later. "