User:SilentRobbie/Li Xiang

Growth experience {You should put this at the start, and rename it to something like "Early years"}
== Li Xiang's parents graduated from the Central Academy of Chinese Opera. Li Xiang started contacting computers and BBS {spell out BBS so users know what this term means} in high school and became interested in them. ==

== In high school, Li Xiang earned a good income by contributing to IT media {it's not clear to me what you mean by "contributing to IT media"here; please clarify} and operating a personal website. Out of his love for the Internet and IT, he decided to give up the college entrance examination and chose to start a business, and he got the support of his parents ==

The third entrepreneur {What does this heading mean? Was this the name of his business?}
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Fog net

In 2000, Li Xiang registered {registered what?} and started operations. {what kind/s of operations?} In the second half of 201, {<fix year} he came to Beijing from Shijiazhuang and officially started the commercial service of FoamNet.

Paobao.com is one of the leading Chinese IT vertical websites and was later acquired by Shengtuo Media. {OK, good; move this to earlier where you first mention paobao}

Car home

Auto House Dating in New York

Auto House Dating in New York

At the end of 2004, Li wanted to start the preparations for the car home. In 2005, Autohome went online.

At present, there are hundreds of automotive websites and competition is fierce. The top five domestic automobile websites visited.

The content-driven model saves a lot of data purchase costs for the car home. In 2008, Auto Capital surpassed all automotive vertical websites and became the industry's first.

On February 11, 2013, a certain car home was successfully listed in New York, USA. At a price of US$30.07, Li Xiang is worth about US$152 million.

In June 2015, Li Xiang stepped down as president of Autohome and stayed as a shareholder.

Autohome is the most visited auto website in the world. Its affordability is also the strongest among Chinese auto websites, reaching RMB 11.031 in 2015.

In September 2016, he resigned from the car home relationship.

Ideal car

In July 2015, Li Xiangdu's ideal car.

Li Xiang is a Chinese user of Model S.

Ideal car’s product day 88 Ideal ONE is a toy electric medium-sized and large SUV on October 1, 208. It is a toy electric medium and large SUV. It released extended-range electric technology and intelligent technology. deliver.

Ideal Auto has its own production qualifications and has built its own factory in Changzhou, Jiangsu. Ideal car base design annual production capacity of 10, and paint the entire state, welding, assembly, and four workshops.

On July 30, 2020, Ideal Motors was listed on the Nasdaq in the United States with the stock code "LI". At the end of May 2021, Ideal ONE has delivered 5 cars in just 17 months, setting a record for the fast delivery of new cars

On May 25, 2021, 2021 models conforming to ONE will be officially launched.

Other Businesses

In 2015, Li Xiang and Yichedong Li Bin, JD.com, Liu Qiang, Tencent, Hillhouse Capital, etc., jointly initiated the establishment of a high-end electric vehicle company NextEV.

NIO's positioning is aligned with the car's aim and the main product and service of close contact.

On February 25, 2021, as a member of the boss team, I participated in the 19th issue of "The Seventh Season of Wonderful Flowers."

Accomplishment
In 2017, Li Xiang was awarded the title of "2017 China's Top Ten Outstanding Young Entrepreneurs".

On November 2, 2020, Li Xiang ranked 9th in the "2020 Hurun Post-80s Rich List of Self-made Rich People" with a fortune of RMB 24 billion.

In October 2020, it ranked 218th in the "2020 Hengchang Shaofang·Hurun Report" with a fortune of RMB 24 billion.

In 2020, with a wealth of 22.62 billion yuan, it ranked 159th in the "2020 Forbes China 400 Rich List".

On December 18, 2020, it ranked 35th in the "Top 500 Chinese Brand Characters 2020".

In April 2021, with a fortune of RMB 41 billion, ranked 20th in the "2021 Hurun Global Self-made U40 Rich List."

= Li Xiang, founder of Li Xiang Auto: I have met more than 100 investors, and the only ones who voted for me were Wang Xing and Zhang Yiming. = The sign of a person's success is not the height of his climb to the top but the rebounding force of his fall to the trough.

01. Website teenager
In October 1981, Li Xiang, later known as "One of China's Super Product Managers," was born in a working family in Shijiazhuang, Hebei.

Both of his parents were intellectuals who graduated from the Central Academy of Chinese Opera, and they were more open-minded.

Li Xiang has been relatively independent since he was a child. Before he was seven years old, he lived with his grandmother in the rural village of Cangzhou, Hebei. He lived with his grandmother in middle school.

From the beginning of the first year of junior high, Li Xiang had a great interest in computers. But computers at that time were scarce items, and the average family could not afford to consume them without a few years of savings. So when Li wanted to be in junior high school, he could only learn about computers by buying newspapers and magazines on the market.

Until Li Xiang's first year of high school, his parents bought him the first computer, Pentium 133, for 8,000 yuan.

It was 1996. Not long after establishing foreign Netscape, eBay, Amazon, and Yahoo, domestic NetEase and China Yellow Pages were also found. The 15-year-old Li Xiang became the first batch of Chinese netizens.

After buying a computer, Li wanted to find that the computer information in some newspapers and magazines was shit and unreasonable. Therefore, he wrote an article about his computer software and hardware research and installation experience, and submitted it to "Computer Business Intelligence."

Unexpectedly, Li Xiang's first submission was adopted by "Computer Business Intelligence," published in a full page. The cost of the manuscript was about 600 yuan, which was undoubtedly a massive sum of money at the time.

Motivated by this, Li Xiang began to write articles constantly and then submitted them to mainstream IT media such as "Computer Business Intelligence," "Computer News," and "Computer World."

In less than a year, he won a place in the field of computer IT content creation.

In the second year of high school, Li Xiang began to have his website-Graphics Card Home, specializing in graphics card content information.

At that time, Li wanted to find that users often visit the website in the morning, so he got up at 5 o'clock every day and updated the webpage at around 6 o'clock.

After school in the afternoon, he ran to the Computer City, borrowed the latest products from familiar businesses for evaluation, and continued to write tomorrow's articles.

This enthusiasm is almost equal to Liu Qiangdong’s “set an alarm clock to get up every two hours to reply to customer messages” at the beginning of his business.

Good content coupled with timely article updates made the "Home of Graphics Cards" one of the best in the industry and later became the No. 1 site in Shijiazhuang by the number of similar websites.

Within a year, after including website advertising income and contribution fees, Li Xiang's monthly payment has reached 20,000 yuan, more than ten times the combined salary of his parents.

This year, he was only 17 years old.

Undoubtedly, when the first wave of PC Internet hits, the teenager Li Xiang caught users' needs, responded in time, and quickly became the leader among personal web admins.

In the future, Li would like to recall on his Weibo that at that time, my competitor accused me of being a neurotic, playing card in violation of the rules, and updating it so early every day. But in my opinion, no matter what, the user is always the most important.

02, third-rate trading
Facing the extraordinary situation of Internet development, Li Xiang chose to drop out of school to start a business in his senior year, and his parents once again decided to respect and support his decision.

Later, Li Xiang expressed his gratitude to his parents for their enlightenment many times in public.

Li Xiang is very clear about his shortcoming, that is, technology. If you want to make your website more prominent, you must find technical talent.

Therefore, he targeted Fan Zheng, a competitor in the same city at the time.

Fan Zheng started a website earlier than Li Xiang, and he just graduated from the Department of Computer Science of Hebei University of Science and Technology. He is several years older than Li Xiang. He knows technology, can write code and can manage servers. At that time, Fan Zheng's website views were second only to Li Xiang in Shijiazhuang.

Under Li Xiang's lobbying, Fan Zheng gave up his website and started a business with Li Xiang. So they established the company in 1999, with Li Xiang holding 60% of the shares and Fan Zheng holding 40% of the claims.

They did not expect that the two have worked together for 16 years, and Fan Zheng is now an essential personal investor and independent director of Ideal Auto.

Li Xiang and Fan Zheng

In 2000, Li Xiang met another partner-Shao Zhen. Shao Zhen graduated from Beijing University of Chem.

03, second-rate business
In 2004, the development of Paobao gradually encountered a bottleneck, and Li Xiang began to look for breakthroughs.

This time Li wanted to stop thinking about what he likes to do, but what he could do to become the number one in the industry.

At that time, Li Xiang's team screened three areas: tourism, real estate, and automobiles. After comprehensively considering their technical reserves, talent reserves, experience, competitive landscape, and entry timing, they concluded that being an automotive website may be their most incredible opportunity.

Li Xiang and a few partners hit it off quickly and began implementing their ideas in the second half of 2004.

To make a car website that more in line with the needs of users, Li Xiang abandoned the stale experience and bad industry habits at the time, recruited a lot of freshly graduated college students, plus a few employees he brought from Paowang, to form A new and effective team has been established.

After half a year of preparation, the new website was officially launched in June 2005, named Auto Home, and received a US$1 million investment from Xue Manzi, known as the "first person in angel investment in China."

At that time, the content of Autohome was mainly auto news, vehicle product library and forums. To improve the website's user experience, Li wants to act as a product manager by himself.

Soon, he discovered that most of the users of the website were car novices. Everyone doesn't care about the technology and principles of vehicles but only wants a good browsing experience and discussion environment.

Therefore, Autohome has developed a standardized process for photo shooting, and the content is also very authentic and standardized, which brings an excellent experience to users.

In addition, in terms of the rhythm and timing of the content update, Li Xiang played the spirit of working hard when he was the "Home of Graphics Cards." He updates on weekends when others do not update; at 8 or 9 in the evening, when others are off work, he works overtime to update.

Even when he published an article a week after participating in the auto manufacturer test drive meeting on another website, he gave the team three deadly orders:

First, it must be updated on the same day;

Second, all pictures and text are original, and no one image or one text from the manufacturer is allowed;

Third, there should be no typos in the article, a 200 yuan fine for a wrong word.

In addition, Autohome also attaches great importance to neutrality and professionalism.

Once at 10 a.m., a car home user posted a reprimand to a car company.

At noon, the public relations of the automobile company requested to delete the post, and the sales representative in charge of the interface ran to Li Xiang's office and grumbled: "It's hard to get a 10 million order. Who will be responsible for it?" Li Xiang was in charge at that time. Said a word: "Bonus will be sent as photos, and posts cannot be deleted!"

Under this differentiated development strategy, Autohome ran all the way. In just one year, it stood out from hundreds of auto websites, ranked among the top five in the country in terms of visits, and surpassed iCard in 2006. Auto has become the largest online auto community in China by the number of users, and this laurel has continued to this day.

Later, when Li Xiang recalled this time on his Weibo, he said that I no longer paid attention to what competitors did when I was a car home.

From beginning to end, what I care about is what users need and how to create more excellent value for users.

Wu Jun, the author of "Top of the Tide," said: "In this world, the difference between people is often orders of magnitude. First-rate people can make second-rate projects first-rate; otherwise, second-rate people will do first-rate projects. In second-rate or third-rate, ten people with 90 points are often not as good as one person with 100 points." This sentence is the same in the development of the company.

While the car home is gradually growing, Li Xiang has been thinking about his management deficiencies. He hopes to find a first-class talent to solve this problem and help the company to a higher level.

Always remember, there will be repercussions. Just when Li wanted to worry about talents, Xue Manzi pushed a great man in front of him. This person is Qin Zhi.

Qin Zhi Middle School graduated from the famous Beijing No. 4 Middle School and was admitted to Tsinghua University. He then studied at the University of Iowa, Harvard Business School, and other prestigious schools. After graduation, he worked for IBM, Northern Telecom, McKinsey, and other multinational companies for many years.

After returning to China in 2006, Qin Zhi did C00 on Cai Wensheng's 265 navigation website, and later became famous in the 265 navigation merger and acquisition, and he became famous in the Chinese In

Although the ideal ONE is not bad in terms of bicycle sales, the magic of the perfect car is unique and challenging to control with the introduction of new cars. A key factor

Three-dimensional contour technology.
If you want to continue not to push new cars, you also have your difficulties. This is a matter of choosing a technical route. From the current point of view, the number of technological ways adopted in the future may increase even more. The United States has stopped adopting additional procedural, technical solutions. From January 2023, Shanghai also announced a news update to stop plugging in. Hybrid vehicles provide toll-free phone numbers and increase the time of electric cars.

In response to investors' doubts about the company's technical route, Li Xiang himself has been upgrading the research and development of pure electric platforms and launching mobile phones during the 2020 earnings conference call. In 2023, the company will launch a pure electric mobile phone.

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