Robin Li Biography
Robin Li is a billionaire internet entrepreneur and Chinese software engineer. He is a co-founder of Baidu, a Chinese search engine. Li was named co-chair of the Independent Expert Advisory Group on Data Revolution for Sustainable Development by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon in August 2014. Li is a member of China’s People’s Political Consultative Conference’s 12th session.
How old is Robin Li? – Age
He is 53 years old as of 17 November 2021. He was born in 1968 in Yangquan, China. His real name is Robin Li Yanhong.
Robin Li Family – Education
He was the fourth of five children, and the only boy born to factory workers Li Guifu, Zhang Gui’e. One of his siblings is Robin Li.
Where did Robin Li go to College?
Peking University awarded him a bachelor’s degree in information management. Li enrolled at the University at Buffalo in the United States to pursue a doctorate in computer science in the fall of 1991. After deciding not to pursue a Ph.D., he received his master’s degree in 1994.
Robin Li Wife – Children
Li is married to Dongmin Ma, a Baidu employee. They live in Beijing, China, with their four children, including Brenda Li.
What company did Robin Li invest in? – Baidu
From July 1997 to December 1999, Li worked as a staff engineer for Infoseek, a pioneer internet search engine company. Go.com’s picture search function was one of his accomplishments. Li has built Baidu into the largest Chinese search engine, with over 80% market share by search query, and the world’s second-largest independent[vague] search engine since its founding in January 2000. Baidu completed its NASDAQ IPO on August 5, 2005, and became the first Chinese company to be included in the NASDAQ-100 Index in 2007. In 2007, he was named to CNN Money’s annual list of “50 People Who Matter Now.”
How much of Baidu does Robin Li own?
The majority of Li’s fortune comes from his 20% stake in Baidu, China’s largest search engine, based in Beijing. According to a company filing from March 3, 2021, its mobile application had 316 million daily active users.
How much is Robin Li worth? – Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of US$8.5 Billion.
Robin Li Career
In 1994, Li joined IDD Information Services, a Dow Jones and Company division in New Jersey, where he assisted in the development of a software program for The Wall Street Journal’s online edition. He also worked on improving search engine algorithms. From May 1994 to June 1997, he worked at IDD Information Services. While at IDD in 1996, Li developed the Rankdex site-scoring algorithm for search engine page ranking, which was granted a patent in the United States. It was the first search engine to use hyperlinks to assess the quality of the websites it was indexing, two years before Google filed a patent for a very similar algorithm in 1998. In some of his PageRank patents, Google founder Larry Page cited Li’s work.
Li’s Rankdex technology was later used by the Baidu search engine. He was named one of the “Top Ten Innovative Pioneers in China” in 2001. He was named one of the “IT Ten Famous Persons” in 2002 and 2003. He was named to the second session of “Chinese Software Ten Outstanding Young Persons” in April 2004. He was named in the twelfth session of the “ASEAN Youth Award” in August 2005. He was named one of the “CCTV 2005 Chinese Economic Figures of the Year” in December 2005. He was named the “World’s Best Business Leader” by American Business Weekly in December 2006.