The founder of Meituan, Wang Xing, is a Hakka from Longyan, Fujian, born on February 18th, 1979. In 1997, Wang Xing was sent to Tsinghua University No.1 Middle School as a radio major and graduated from Tsinghua University in 21. Founder of Renren (formerly the intranet), president of Fanfan, founder and CEO of Meituan.
in 23, Wang Xingyu gave up his studies in the United States and returned to China to establish an intranet, which was acquired by Thousand Oaks Group in 26. In 27, Fanbu.com was founded; In 21, Meituan.com, a group buying website, was founded. In 214, Wang Xing was selected as the 214 Chinese Economic Leader. On February 26th, 22, with a wealth of RMB 53 billion, it ranked 262nd in the 22 Shimao Shenzhen-Hong Kong International Center Hurun Global Rich List. On May 12th, Wang Xing ranked 35th in the 22 New Fortune 5 Rich List with a wealth of 52.65 billion yuan. On August 13, 22, Wang Xing, an affiliated company of Public Comment Shanghai Hantao Information Consulting Co., Ltd., withdrew from the supervisor and was replaced by Liu Minjuan.
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Before the age of p>25, Wang Xing had a typical three-good student experience: he was sent to Tsinghua University from Longyan No.1 Middle School in Fujian, and graduated with a scholarship to study in the United States.
While studying in the Department of Electronic Engineering in Tsinghua University in 1997, Wang Xing participated in the dance team of Tsinghua Student Art Troupe and danced a traditional dance called "Huangtuhuang". Topless, with a chest drum tied to his chest and a pair of coarse trousers.
In early p>24, at the age of 25, he interrupted his doctoral studies in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering of the University of Delaware and returned to China to start a business. "At that time, I had nothing but ideas and courage. After I finished my undergraduate course, I went to the United States. I had no social relations except my classmates. After I came back, I found a college classmate and a high school classmate. Three people groped in the dark." Wang Xing recalled.
Wang Xing's first project was called "Duoduoyou", and after "Duoduoyou", he made a second project called "Youzitu", which was very specialized and aimed at overseas friends.
In the autumn of p>25, Wang Xing decided to focus on a market segment: SNS in university campus. They studied and studied Facebook, a successful example in this field in the United States, integrated the previous experience and lessons in the SNS field, and combined with the national conditions, developed the campus network. Since its release three months ago, the intranet has attracted 3, users, which is growing rapidly.
When the number of users of the campus network increased sharply in 26, Wang Xing had no money to increase the server and bandwidth, so he had to sell the campus network to Chen Yizhou, CEO of Thousand Oaks Interactive Group, who received $43 million from Softbank and changed the campus network to Renren, and Renren went public in 211.
Wang Xing's latest venture is Meituan. com. In July 29, Wang Xing's Fanbu.com was shut down for some reason. Meituan obtained the venture capital of Sequoia Capital "more than $1 million".
In p>211, at the internal meeting of the first anniversary of the establishment of the Meituan, Wang Xing took Shen Peng, who joined the Meituan before graduating from college at the age of 21, as an example to express his view on employment: the criterion for judging whether a person can join the Meituan is more about mentality than age. It is necessary to understand what consumers want, be aggressive, and agree with the values of Meituan.
on August 7, 22, Wang xing resigned as a supervisor of Beijing sankuai online technology co., ltd. On August 13th, Wang Xing, an affiliated company of Public Comment Shanghai Hantao Information Consulting Co., Ltd., withdrew from the supervisor and was replaced by Liu Minjuan.