Richard Liu, also known as Qiangdong, is one of the most famous Asian influential entrepreneurs and businessman. He is the founder of JD.com, the most outstanding online retailer in China and across Asia. He has served as the company’s CEO and chairman since its establishment in 2004. Under his leadership, the company has made incredible progress in all its operations globally.
Liu Qiangdong was born and raised by his farmer parents in Changan village in the Jiangsu province of China. Born from a low-income family background, Richard was determined to succeed and help his society, which lacked modern conveniences by then.
As a young person with high ambitions, Richard Liu Qiangdong put more effort into his middle-class exams to being appointed to the prestigious Renmin University to pursue a sociology career. Despite his family being financially unstable, he rallied his village people to raise enough money that would enable him to join the University.
Being open-minded, Richard Liu understood that computer programming skills were in high demand. Through this knowledge, Liu Qiangdong began teaching himself computer programming skills while still undertaking sociology. Besides, he would do small jobs to get some little capital for his upkeep at school. Using the little savings from Liu Qiangdong’s employment, he acquired a new laptop and mobile phone by then, which were quite expensive. Go Here to learn more.
After school, Liu began a small hotel business near the university entrance using his small savings. However, the company did not last long because he had no proper management skills and experience.
Richard Liu became more inspired to begin yet another business learning from his past mistakes. This prompted him to start the JD.com company using the knowledge he had acquired from computer programming.
Using his strong leadership skills, JD.com grew swiftly to become a world-leading online retailer. Today the company is valued to be China’s highest internet grossing company by revenue. It’s appreciated to be of a net worth of about $57 billion while Richard is estimated to be of more than $11 billion net worth. Besides, JD.com entered into books for becoming the first China company to be traded on the NASDAQ floor.
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