Robin Li

Robin Li Yanhong is a Chinese computer scientist and internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of the search engine Baidu, and one of the richest people in China, with a net worth of US$18.5 billion as of October 2017. Li is a member of the 12th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.

  • Robin Li is the CEO and cofounder of Baidu, China’s top search engine and one of the world’s most popular websites.
  • Baidu is known in China as a part of BAT — Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent — the trio of companies that rank as the country’s three largest.
  • In 2016, Li was criticized for trying to buy Baidu‘s iQiyi video channel at a bargain price; he failed and iQiyi went public in 2018.