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Robin Li

Founder and Executive

Robin Li, whose Chinese name is Li Yanhong, is a Chinese software engineer and internet entrepreneur born on 17 November 1968 in Yangquan, Shanxi Province. He studied information management at Peking University and computer science at the University at Buffalo, leaving the doctoral program there with a master's degree in 1994. While working at IDD Information Services in 1996 he created the Rankdex site-scoring algorithm for ranking search results, work that a later Google patent for PageRank referenced. After a period as a staff engineer at Infoseek, he founded the search company Baidu in January 2000 with Eric Xu, and he has served as its chief executive officer since 2004. Baidu listed on NASDAQ on 5 August 2005 and grew into the largest Chinese search engine. His tenure has also drawn criticism over advertising practices on the platform, including the death of Wei Zexi.

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Entrepreneurship, Practice Disciplines
Source Robin Li (Wikipedia)
Internet Industry, Industries
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Founded By

Baidu, Inc., Companies and Brands
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Led By

Baidu, Inc., Companies and Brands
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Robin Li

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China

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is a Chinese software engineer and billionaire internet entrepreneur
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Robin Li (Wikipedia)
  • Lead paragraph [nationality]
    is a Chinese software engineer and billionaire internet entrepreneur
  • Associated With: Entrepreneurship, Lead paragraph
    billionaire internet entrepreneur
  • Founded By: Baidu, Inc., Lead paragraph, second paragraph
    In 2000, he founded Baidu with Eric Xu.
  • Led By: Baidu, Inc., Lead paragraph, second paragraph [led-by]
    Li has been CEO of Baidu since January 2004.
  • Associated With: Internet Industry, Baidu section
    Li has turned the company into the largest Chinese search engine
  • In Group: Company Founders and Co-founders, Lead section
    co-founder and chief executive officer of Chinese multinational technology company Baidu
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