Fifteen Years of Boiling: China's Internet 1995-2009 (Revised Edition)

In 1995, China opened two nodes connected to the Internet in Beijing and Shanghai. This year is known as the first year of China's Internet business. In the following 15 years, China's Internet has produced nearly 40 overseas listed companies, more than 15 of which have reached a market value of over US$1 billion in the stock market. Wave after wave of industrial changes have impacted the hearts of practitioners, giving rise to scenes of entrepreneurial tragedies and comedies. This book records a group of people who created their own history and their true stories in the 15 years since China's Internet industry started. They are the trendsetters and representatives of the new wealth in the magnificent rise of China's Internet since 1995: Ma Huateng, Ding Lei, Zhang Chaoyang, Jack Ma, Chen Tianqiao, Robin Li, Shi Yuzhu, Tian Suning, Zhang Shuxin, Wang Zhidong, Wang Juntao, Lei Jun, Zhou Hongyi, Chen Yizhou... They not only participated in the creation and promotion of the Internet industry, mobile Internet industry, and new technology interconnection industry, and rewrote their own wealth accumulation path, but also used the Internet and mobile technology to create and promote the historical process of the entire country. They have become the backbone driving the new generation of Chinese enterprises to take off.