丁磊 (DīngLěi): Ding Lei / William Ding (1971-)

Meanings

1 Ding Lei / William Ding (1971-)
2 founder and CEO of NetEase (网易)

Characters

丁

pile of stones; frank

Examples

丁磊是网易的创始人。

Dīng Lěi shì Wǎngyì de chuàngshǐrén.

Ding Lei is the founder of NetEase.

他也投资了养猪项目，很出名。

Tā yě tóuzī le yǎng zhū xiàngmù, hěn chūmíng.

He also famously invested in a pig-farming project.

Tips

culture

Founded NetEase in 1997 — email, portal, online gaming and music. Briefly China's richest man in 2003. The 'NetEase Pig' (网易猪) project, launched 2009, aimed at high-welfare, tech-driven farming and became a running internet joke about tech-founder hobby ventures.

culture

Often contrasted in tech-media narratives with Alibaba's Jack Ma and Tencent's Pony Ma — the quietest of the Chinese internet pioneers.