Li Xiang
Li Xiang
Li Xiang, born in October 1981 in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, is a representative of post-80s entrepreneurs. He has successively founded bubble net and auto home, and is now the founder and CEO of auto home.
Li Xiang, who was still in high school in 1998, began to do his own website. In 2000, he registered bubble net and started to operate. With his love for it products and snowballing capital accumulation, Li Xiang, with a high school degree, makes bubble net unique in China's Internet industry. In 2005, Li Xiang led the team to expand from it products to the automobile industry, creating the website of automobile home. Auto home has become the most visited auto website in the world. By the end of 2012, auto home has achieved a monthly coverage of 80 million users. On December 11, 2013, Li Xiang led autohome to successfully list on the New York Stock Exchange. In June 2015, Li wanted to step down as president and continue to be a director shareholder. In July 2015, Li Xiang founded CHEHE family. Chehejia is located in the future intelligent transportation service provider, and is committed to creating intelligent electric vehicles that everyone can easily buy and use. Li Xiang also co founded nextev, an electric car brand, as a director of the company. On February 25, 2021, I participated in the 19th issue of the seventh season of wonderful flowers as a member of the boss group.
Growth and learning
Li Xiang's parents graduated from the Central Academy of traditional Chinese opera. Li Xiang began to contact computers and BBS in high school, and had a strong interest in it.
In senior high school, Li Xiang had made a good income by contributing to it media and operating personal websites. Out of love for the Internet and it, he decided to give up taking the college entrance examination and choose to start a business, and won the support of his parents.
On March 27, 2019, the fifth opening ceremony of Hupan University was held in Hangzhou. More than 1400 entrepreneurs signed up, and finally 41 students were selected. Li Xiang, Shen Peng, founder of shuidichou and shuidihuzhu, and singer Hu Yanbin became the fifth students of Hupan University.
Three start ups
Bubble net
In 2000, Li wanted to register bubble net and start operation. In the second half of 2001, he came to Beijing from Shijiazhuang and formally started the business operation of bubble net.
Bubble net is one of the leaders of Chinese it vertical website, which was acquired by Shengtuo media.
Car home
At the end of 2004, Li wanted to start the preparation of auto home. In 2005, auto home went online.
At that time, there were hundreds of automobile websites, and the competition was fierce. Without any promotion costs, auto home, with its neutral and objective content, as well as innovation in databases and real pictures, has entered the top five domestic auto websites in less than a year.
Content driven mode saves a lot of traffic purchase cost for car home. In 2008, the flow of Auto Home exceeded all the auto vertical websites and became the first in the industry.
On December 11, 2013, he led autohome to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Based on the closing price of $30.07, Li Xiang is worth more than 100 million, about $152 million.
In June 2015, Li wanted to step down as president of auto home and retain the position of director and shareholder.
Auto home is the most visited auto website in the world. Its profitability is also the strongest among Chinese auto websites, with a net profit of RMB 1103.1 million in 2015.
In September 2016, he resigned as a director of auto home.
Car and home
In July 2015, Li Xiang founded car and home, aiming to provide intelligent new energy travel solutions.
In May 2016, chehejia announced the completion of round a financing of RMB 780 million, with a valuation of RMB 2.98 billion.
Li Xiang is one of the first Chinese users of Tesla models. In order to deal with the problems of environmental protection and congestion, he believes that electric vehicles are the trend of the future. It is the concept of car and home to create electric travel tools that meet the local needs for Chinese users and become the future automobile intelligent transportation service provider.
Chehejia announced that it will launch two products: a small and beautiful sev (smart electric vehicle) and a large and powerful SUV. Sev will be a new concept of urban personal travel tool, which can realize convenient and flexible charging, convenient parking and commuting, and outstanding sense of quality. SUV will meet the needs of family travel and provide high endurance mileage to cover the needs of medium and long distance.
Chehejia insists on independent research and development and self built manufacturing base. It will invest 5 billion yuan to build a 300000 vehicle manufacturing base in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, and is expected to put into production by the end of 2017.
Other undertakings
In 2015, Li Xiang, together with Li Bin, founder of e-Car, Liu qiangdong, founder of Jingdong, Tencent, and hillhood capital, co founded nextev, a high-end electric vehicle company, and held the position of director.
Weilai automobile's positioning is close to Tesla's, focusing on the ultimate products and services. In contrast, the product positioning of car and home is more people-friendly.
On February 25, 2021, I participated in the 19th issue of the seventh season of wonderful flowers as a member of the boss group.
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Honors
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In October 2020, it ranked 218th in the "2020 Hengchang Shaofang · Hurun 100 rich list" with a wealth of 24 billion yuan.
In 2020, with a wealth of 22.62 billion yuan, it will be ranked 159th in the Forbes China 400 list.
On December 18, 2020, it ranked 35th in the top 500 Chinese brand names in 2020.
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