Robin Li
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Robin Li (simplified Chinese: 李彦宏; pinyin: Lǐ Yánhóng) is a Chinese entrepreneur. Born in 1968, the fourth of five children, he grew up during China's Cultural Revolution. He was bright enough to get into one of the country's most prestigious school, Beijing University, where he studied computer science. In 2000 he founded Baidu with Eric Xu (徐勇). He has been the CEO of Baidu since January 2004, which was listed in NASDAQ in August 2005. [1]
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[edit] Professional
Interested in studying abroad, he enrolled at the State University of New York, Buffalo. After completing his master's degree in 1994 he joined a New Jersey division of Dow Jones and Company, where he helped develop a software program for the online edition of The Wall Street Journal. [2]
Robin Li is the initiator of ESP technology, and successfully used it in the Infoseek/Go.com search engine. Another of his important innovative achievements was the picture search of Go.com. [3]
He was listed in the CNN Money annual "50 people who matter now" in 2007. [4]
[edit] Education
Robin Li received a BS from the Department of Information Management, Beijing University. He earned a Master's degree in 1994 in computer science from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
