Baidu profits Vs google profits

Robin Li Baidu Owner

In addition to the boss of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, a number of young leaders in information technology are also included in the ranks of the rich world Forbes 2010. Among these are the founders of Google, the largest Internet search engine in the world.

Some other originated from Asia. One of them is Robin Li, the figure of Chinese Internet entrepreneur who has a wealth of U.S. $ 3.5 billion at the relatively young age, 41 years old. owner Baidu, Chinese internet search engine is located at number 258.

Wealth Ma Li and his wife Melissa, doubled in a year. Baidu's stock price rose 281 percent in the last 12 months, thanks to the good performance of Baidu, and successfully faced tough competition against Google. Moreover, following Google's plan intends to withdraw from China in January.

Li is known not only as the founder, now he also became chairman and chief executive officer of Baidu, Inc.. He became the controlling figure of the Internet company from the Bamboo Curtain country as a whole, including the matter of strategy and business operations.

Within nine years after Baidu was founded in January 2000, Li has successfully brought the largest search engine Baidu in China, which controls more than 70 percent market share. Baidu is also the third largest independent search engine in the world.

In 2005, Baidu successfully completed an IPO on the NASDAQ exchange. In 2007 also, Baidu became the first Chinese company that entered the ranks of the NASDAQ-100 Index.

Prior to founding Baidu, Li is one of the search engine experts in the world. Hyperlink analysis his patented in 1996, is one of the findings on which the formation of Baidu's search engine technology.

Initially, he worked as a staff engineer for Infoseek in Silicon Valley, the pioneer in the Internet search engine company, from July 1997 to December 1999, then as a senior consultant for IDD Information Services from May 1994 until June 1997.

Li received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Information Management from Peking University in 1991, and obtained his Master of Science Degree in Computer Science from State University of New York in 1994.