“If he is worried about Google he will probably be more worried about Baidu somewhere down the road,”
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Robin Li
Robin Li Yanhong is a Chinese software engineer and billionaire internet entrepreneur who is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Chinese multinational technology company Baidu. As of May 2025, his net worth was estimated at US$5.5 billion by Forbes.
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business · Chinese software engineer and billionaire internet entrepreneur (born 1968) · entrepreneur · inventor · businessperson · computer scientist · software engineer · software developer · also Robin Li, Robin Li Yanhong, Li Yanhong, Li
Born 17 November 1968 · Q92985
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2026· 4 entries
“There is a lot of room to grow. That is why I am more focused on long-term investment than short-term profits.”
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“But to me it was a branding event. It educated the market. More people now realise that Baidu is the biggest search engine in China.”
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“s search engine can distinguish between two-character and three-character Chinese names so that its results are more relevant than those of its rivals. It has also created chatrooms related to the most common inquiries so that everyone who looks for the name of a pop star gets the chance to share opinions as well as find related sites. Critics say these are minor adjustments to a design and business model that is largely a copy of Google. The reason for Baidu”
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2024· 1 entry
Harvard Business Review: Future of Business: Baidu’s Robin Li on the Technology Trends that Will Transform Business
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2023· 1 entry
Benzinga.com: Baidu CEO Robin Li Cautions Against Overinvestment in Large Language Models in China
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2021· 1 entry
Published “The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews” in BMJ — cited 86,238 times.
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2020· 1 entry
Published “Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China” in The Lancet — cited 36,648 times.
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2019· 2 entries
Reported net worth: $9.6B (as of 2019).
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Published “RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials” in BMJ — cited 25,879 times.
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2018· 2 entries
Awarded Pioneer of Reform (2018).
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Published “MEGA X: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis across Computing Platforms” in Molecular Biology and Evolution — cited 33,827 times.
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2009· 3 entries
Published “The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools” in Bioinformatics — cited 59,426 times.
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Published “ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database” in 2009 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition — cited 47,459 times.
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Published “Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform” in Bioinformatics — cited 47,767 times.
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2004· 1 entry
Career landmark: chief executive officer (2004).
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2002· 1 entry
And 2003, he was named one of the "IT Ten Famous Persons"
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2001· 1 entry
Was named one of the "Chinese Top Ten Innovative Pioneers"
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1996· 1 entry
While at IDD, Li created the Rankdex site-scoring algorithm for search engine page ranking
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1994· 1 entry
Li joined IDD Information Services, 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
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1968· 1 entry
Born 1968-11-17.
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