Chen Tianqiao: Chairman of Shanda Network.
Personal wealth: RMB 265.438+0.03 billion.
Family fortune: 5.256 billion yuan (including his wife's money and the wealth owned by his brother Chen Danian).
Graduate school: Fudan University
"Even if it is not grand, Chen Tianqiao will be a good businessman." This is what many people say about Chen Tianqiao. When Chen is sitting on hundreds of millions of assets because of his grand success, people are still willing to interpret the evaluation that grand success may be accidental, but Chen Tianqiao's success is inevitable.
Chen Tianqiao, 1973 was born in Xinchang, Zhejiang Province in May. I entered the Economics Department of Fudan University from 1990 and finished my studies one year ahead of schedule. Leaving Fudan with the title of "excellent student cadre pacesetter", Chen Tianqiao's ability has been demonstrated in the society. After serving as the assistant to the president of Lujiazui (600663) and the director of the office of the president of Jin Xin Trust, Chen Tianqiao founded Shanda Network Company with his younger brother Chen Danian on1999+February. Since then, he has shown his old age in the business world.
When Chen Tianqiao started acting as Lenovo's agent on 200 1, he focused his sales on Internet cafes all over the corner, and built a set of E-SALE sales system, which greatly facilitated the purchase of gamers and reduced the middle sales channels, making Shanda a success.
The decision to enter online games was not a pleasant journey. When Chen Tianqiao founded Shanda in 1999, his main business was cartoon animation, which attracted an investment of $3 million from China. After two years of Internet downturn, Chen Tianqiao decided to turn to online games, but investor China.com still insisted on animation. After China.com left Chen Tianqiao $300,000, they parted ways. After two years of venture capital, China. Com came out when Shanda was about to take off, and the Chen family monopolized all the shares of Shanda.
The investment of Internet companies can always tell many wonderful stories, including the ups and downs of Duan Yongji in Sina, the grand breakup between Chen Tianqiao and China. It seems difficult to describe the winners and losers in equity with words such as foresight or shortsightedness, but in any case, only perseverance can be written into the final legend, but it is often confirmed in Internet companies.
Mary Mick, the "Queen of the Internet", has her own unique evaluation criteria for Internet companies, one of which is that she has a firm founder, a sense of mission and is not mercenary. Chen Tianqiao feels the same way. He believes that this is a necessary condition for the success of an enterprise, and said that Shanda has a strong sense of social responsibility, which will link the enterprise with the healthy and sustainable growth of the whole industry.
The great achievements of Xiao QQ
Ma: CEO of Tencent Holdings
Personal wealth: RMB 964 million.
Wealth of entrepreneurial team: 6543.8 yuan+853 million yuan (5 founders: Ma, Zhang Zhidong, Xu, Chen Yidan).
Graduate school: Shenzhen University
No one will be surprised if he sees the QQ number printed on his business card. However, when Zhang Zhidong, a college classmate, founded Tencent and fiddled with the "Internet Chinese Pager", Ma would never have thought that Tencent QQ would develop to such a scale. When it was difficult, Ma offered 10 million yuan to transfer QQ, but Guangdong Telecom gave it up on the grounds that the price was too high. It was Guangdong Telecom's "ignorance of goods" that gave him the opportunity to create a QQ kingdom myth in six years. With this small instant messaging software, it has sold over 100 million yuan in four years and composed scenes of silicon valley legend in Shenzhen.
On the Internet, Ma's Sword of Throat Sealing is Little Penguin QQ. At present, the popularity of QQ has become a household name, and it is almost a "must-have", so that for a while, some companies actually banned employees from chatting on QQ, so as not to neglect their work.
Ma not only succeeded in keeping the largest registered Internet user group in China, but also commercialized this influence and loyalty in a timely manner, and explored a brand-new way of profit-Tencent was successful in both paid registration and QQ SMS chat, and the company's profit was just like the momentum of QQ member registration, with a net profit of 300-400 million yuan a year.
He is a man of dedication. Almost all work partners will say this when referring to the boss horse. In the online world where hot spots will turn in three to five months, Teng Xun has been doing it for more than five years, and only does the improvement and standardization of QQ services. It is the only company in China that focuses on online instant messaging.
Ma, a 32-year-old native of Chaoshan, Guangdong, is low-key, inarticulate, calm and indifferent. Only when it comes to computers and networks will he show happy smiles and pride from time to time. However, Tencent has created five billionaires and seven multimillionaires, including Ma.
The latecomers come from the top.
Zhou Yunfan and Yang Ning: Chairman and President of Kong Zhong.
Personal wealth: 5130,000 yuan.
Graduate School: Tsinghua University/University of Michigan Stanford University/Stanford University.
From Stanford in the United States to ChinaRen in Beijing, from ChinaRen to Sohu, from Sohu to Kong Zhong, Zhou Yunfan and Yang Ning have always been around; ChinaRen was successfully sold when the Internet was in recession, and Kong Zhong was put on the Nasdaq market before the second Internet boom in China ended. In the transformation again and again, their understanding of the Internet has become more and more profound and practical, and they have always stood at the forefront of the reform of the young Internet industry.
From 65438 to 0999, Zhou Yunfan, who returned from Stanford University in the United States, founded ChinaRen.com with Yang Ning and another business partner, Chen Yizhou. In China at that time, the Internet craze was rampant, and ChinaRen was obviously a latecomer. However, based on the understanding of young people and campus life, ChinaRen soon became the new favorite of domestic students because of online games and alumni records. However, finding a clear profit model is always a problem. As the market enthusiasm for Internet companies plummeted, in September 2000, Zhou Yunfan, Yang Ning and Chen Yizhou decided to sell ChinaRen-the buyer was Sohu. Subsequently, Zhou Yunfan and Yang Ning joined Sohu. The former served as executive vice president and general manager of Sohu, while the latter served as chief technology officer.
When two business partners were working in Sohu, it was reported that they were estranged from former Sohu executives. Although they strongly denied it at that time, when the business opportunities of wireless value-added services were visible in 2002, they quickly left Sohu to set up an air network to carry out wireless value-added services.
They are latecomers. Under the circumstance that 2G services such as SMS are blooming everywhere, they saw the trend of 2.5G from the beginning, and successively launched new services such as MMS and WAP with China Mobile. Only two years after its establishment, it can make a quick profit and land on Nasdaq.
From ChinaRen to Kong Zhong, two latecomers, Zhou Yunfan and Yang Ning, seized two opportunities and finally realized the transformation of Internet commerce from concept to profit.
From "Yangchun Baixue" to "Xialiba People"
Shen Nanpeng, President and Chief Financial Officer of Ctrip.com.
Personal wealth: RMB 324 million.
Graduate School: Shanghai Jiaotong University/Yale University
The company finally went public in the United States, and finally it can often mingle with investment bankers, analysts and fund managers on Wall Street. Can Shen Nanpeng still find the feeling of "Chun Xue"?
After graduating from Yale University with an MBA, Shen Nanpeng worked in three well-known Wall Street investment banks for eight years and participated in the overseas listing of 89 China enterprises. Shen Nanpeng was very satisfied to see that the projects he participated in got a lot of funds in the international capital market.
After that, he chose the Internet and founded Ctrip with several friends. The rapid growth of internet companies needs to pay. In addition to daily management, the company also needs macro strategy, government relations and media relations, so Shen Nanpeng officially left the investment circle at the end of 1999 to concentrate on Ctrip. At the beginning of the company's establishment, the most important job was to issue cards at the airport and bargain at the hotel. Compared with his previous work in an investment bank, Shen Nanpeng compared his career change from "Chun Xue" to "chin beauty".
The change of occupation has brought great changes to Shen Nanpeng. Four years after its establishment, Ctrip landed on Nasdaq as it wished, and it has been enthusiastically sought after by investors, rising from 10 at the time of listing to more than 30 dollars. For Shen Nanpeng, who has many years of investment banking experience, it is undoubtedly the greatest satisfaction to see the company he founded with his own hands have such performance in the capital market. And his personal wealth has also risen rapidly. As a "Xialiba" accumulated wealth in four years, as a "Chun Xue", it may not reach it in 40 years.
Now Shen Nanpeng is still very modest and willing to introduce Ctrip's team without talking about individuals. His next step is to turn Ctrip into a travel service company that provides all-round travel products and meets all the needs of travelers.
Who's Wu Jun?
Wu Jun: Chairman of Palm Smart.
Personal wealth: RMB 297 million.
The wealth of the entrepreneurial team is RMB 8130,000 (five founders: Wu Jun, Shao Xiaoli, Li, PatrickBenzie and Derek Sulger).
Graduate School: Imperial University of Technology, London
He is Wu Jun, the well-informed founder and chairman. Yang Lei, an American professional manager in Silicon Valley, has been hiding behind the scenes since he was invited to be CEO of Pocket Tong Ling in early 2003. Even the company's landing on Nasdaq was completed by CEO Yang Lei.
Although he is only 32 years old this year, Wu Jun's experience in the IT industry is not short-lived, and he is known as a "technical genius" in the industry.
Wu Jun, who was born in Shanghai, finished high school in the middle school affiliated to Shanghai Normal University. Later, his father, who worked in England, took him to study in England and obtained a degree in computer science from Imperial College London, London. After graduation, Wu Jun went to the British IBM company, specializing in data imaging and TCP/IP network. Later, he joined a Swedish wireless interconnection company named Sendit as the chief designer of ICSA system, which has been widely adopted by many data operators all over the world. Sendit was acquired by Microsoft at the beginning of 1999 and became the mobile internet division of Microsoft.
1In September, 1999, Wu Jun and Li, who graduated from Manchester University in England, founded Insk Computer Company. The company is positioned as a provider of software products and solutions for wireless Internet platforms, and Wu Jun is the CEO and director of the company. In 2002, Forbes magazine interviewed the young returnee entrepreneur in a report called Shanghai Roar. Wu Jun predicted at that time: "Shanghai will definitely become the science and technology center of Asia. There are many entrepreneurs here, but there is still a lack of a world-class high-tech company. Once such a company appears, everything is another matter. "
Palm Intelligence is a company that carries Wu's great ideal. In 2002, Pocket Intelligence was established as a business department of Insk, focusing on providing wireless value-added services for mobile phone users in China. In April of 200 1 year, Pocket Tong Ling broke away from Insk and became an independent company. Wu Jun has brought some top venture capitalists to the company-Fidelity, Acer Technology Venture Capital, AsiaInfo and so on. Although well-informed is far from the world-class high-tech company that Wu Junli wants, it has at least brought him great wealth and opportunities.
"Show" real money
Guo Fansheng: CEO of HC International.
Personal wealth: 206 million yuan (of which 90 million yuan is the market value of shares held on behalf of 49 employees).
Graduate school: China Renmin University.
You will see him in all kinds of occasions-newspapers, magazines, TV, forums and conferences. You will see him gesticulating simply and forcefully, and confidently promoting his theory of "all-staff labor joint-stock system"-a "neither fish nor fowl" system similar to the joint-stock cooperative system of township enterprises-"knowledge creates wealth".
Although Guo Fansheng's "institutional theory" has been questioned and refuted by economists, there is no doubt that this theory of institutional innovation has been applied and achieved success in the development of human capital.
In the eyes of media people, Guo Fansheng is straightforward and informal, but he has a strong affinity. This can also explain why HC attracted more than 20 right-hand men and a group of cyclists to collect price information at the beginning of 1992. Later, it developed into a "publishing+network" profit model, and finally entered the search market and successfully listed on the Hong Kong Growth Enterprise Market.
As the boss of a Hong Kong-listed company, until today, Guo Fansheng hasn't given himself a car, and he still "keeps going back and forth" wherever he goes. "Making money continuously" is Guo Fansheng's management goal, but HC's team still maintains the spirit of "no luxury, no enjoyment".
Guo Fansheng often said that it is the goal of his unremitting efforts to make a system support the long-term operation of an enterprise. He decided to establish this system when his mind was still awake, so that when he retired, HC would have a successor to continue to operate.
Friend or foe?
Li Yanhong: CEO of Baidu Company
Personal wealth: unknown
Graduate School: Peking University/Buffalo new york State University.
Li Yanhong, who goes to the United States every three months to spend two weeks with his family, will be filled with emotion when he sees the English word "frienemy" recently-this word connected by the English words "friend" and "enemy" is, to some extent, a portrayal of the current situation of CEO of Baidu.
A month ago, Baidu, which was entering the sprint period of listing, completed the last round of financing before listing. In the list of ***8 strategic investors, it was once considered as Baidu's strong rival Google. Is Google a friend or an enemy to Baidu? 1999, Li Yanhong and his entrepreneurial partner Xu Yong founded Baidu in Silicon Valley, USA. A year later, Baidu returned to China for development. Li Yanhong spent three years making Baidu the largest Chinese search engine company in the world. During this period, Google has always been Baidu's biggest competitor. The founders of Google, Larry Page and Celsi Brin, and Li Yanhong have also initiated oral disputes through the media many times.
Now, the enemy has become a friend who shakes hands side by side. For the outside world, Li Yanhong only said that Google is only a strategic investor, and Baidu's control is still in his own hands. However, many critics believe that Google's investment in Baidu is an attempt to covet China's search market and Baidu's commercial value. Previously, Li Yanhong and Baidu had explored the business model of search bidding ranking in China, and Li Yanhong's experience as a senior consultant in Dow Jones, a designer of the online real-time financial information system of The Wall Street Journal, and a senior engineer in Infoseek, an internationally renowned Internet company, also brought a lot of technical accumulation to Baidu.
Like the ideals of many Silicon Valley technicians, Li Yanhong said that his ideal is to change the world with technology. "I hope that what I do can change the lifestyle of most people and benefit enough people."
Presumably, this 1988 left Yangquan, Shanxi Province to study in Peking University, and at the age of 23, he went across the ocean to study for a computer degree at new york State University in Buffalo, USA. An Internet search expert who has been in contact with the spirit of Silicon Valley for many years should understand that, similar to the promotion of technology, competition is also the driving force for the business world to keep forging ahead. Then, if there is only one Chinese search engine and one Internet search company in the real world, are they friends or enemies of mankind?
What did Tang Yue do this summer?
Tang Yue: Chairman and CEO of E Long Company.
Personal wealth: unknown
Graduate School: Nanjing University (not yet graduated)/concord college, USA.
Tang Yue, chairman of E-Dragon, flew around this summer, and his whereabouts are unknown. The information disclosed by various sources makes us believe that Tang Yue is doing something this summer: he is planning the overseas listing of E-Dragon in order to catch the tail of the second Internet craze in China-although the company strongly denies that there is no specific listing schedule.
Tang Yue and his e-Dragon recorded the rise and fall of the domestic Internet industry. With the ups and downs of the Internet, Tang Yue has been holding the banner of acquisition, merger, divestiture and trading, and staged a series of capital dramas. During this period, E-Dragon has faced many crises and turned the tide. Today's e-Long seems to be an urban youth who advocates petty bourgeoisie life, but in his bones, he has already become an office aunt who carefully plans a business trip for you with an abacus.
From the city life portal to the business travel service provider, E-Dragon can be regarded as one of the few companies that learn from other people's models and succeed in a short time. However, Tang Yue's exciting capital operation method is hard for others to imitate. The most amazing thing is a wonderful "high throwing and low sucking". In March 2000, when the Internet was the hottest, the unprofitable E-Dragon was sold by Tang Yue to Mail.com, an American Internet communication company, at a high price. A year later, before the winter of the Internet came, E Long was redeemed at a low price. What's next? It seems self-evident that the company goes public.
Tang Yue has been engaged in venture capital in high-tech industry in the United States, and he is familiar with how to obtain funds from venture capitalists. Tang Yue believes that the standard for evaluating the quality of financing is not whether you can get the money, but at what cost.
When E-Dragon will be listed is the focus of many people's attention. E-Dragon, once a subsidiary of Mail.com, is constantly clarifying the business model of "hotel plus air ticket", and at the same time, it has obtained a lot of venture capital and is preparing to go public. What kind of amazing capital operation will this be? Many internet observers and media are trying to find out the answer. But I can imagine one thing with my toes: Once E-Dragon goes public, it will bring hundreds of millions of wealth to Tang Yue.
Note: "Personal wealth" is calculated by the number of shares held by listed companies and the closing price on July 20; The exchange rate is converted into USD 1 = RMB 8.27 and HKD 1 = RMB 1.06.