Wang Xingyu, 1979, from Longyan, Fujian. He was admitted to Tsinghua University Electronic Engineering Department 1997 with excellent results. During his college years, he showed his enthusiasm for technology and entrepreneurship. He participated in several projects, including the development of a typing game called the Tenth Five-Year Plan. This experience made him interested in Internet technology, and also exercised his programming and teamwork skills.
200 1 Wang Xing graduated from Tsinghua University with a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering from the University of Michigan. In 2003, when he was studying for a master's degree in computer science at the University of Delaware, he came into contact with a social networking project called Intranet. In 2004, she cooperated with two roommates to establish the campus network, which became a social platform for college students in China.
The success of intranet made Wang Xing realize the great potential of social network in China. However, in 2006, he sold the campus network and began to look for the next entrepreneurial opportunity. In the same year, he co-founded a group buying website called Meituan. With three partners. Meituan. Com takes local life service as the breakthrough point and attracts consumers by offering a large number of discounts and coupons.
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Wang Xing's leadership and innovative thinking made Meituan.com one of the largest group buying websites in China in just a few years. In 20 15, Meituan-Dianping raised a total of 3.3 billion US dollars, creating the largest financing record in China's Internet history. Today, Meituan has developed from a group buying website into a comprehensive life service platform covering takeout, hotel reservation, movie ticketing and other fields.
Besides his achievements in Meituan, Wang Xing is also one of the important thinkers and promoters of the Internet industry in China. He co-founded Good Future, a non-profit internet education organization, and invested in many other successful startups, including Qunar, an online travel platform, and mobike, a bicycle company.