Victor Koo Wing Cheung or Gu Yongqiang () served as President of
Sohu, Inc., the second largest search engine in
China
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.
He became the co-founder and CEO of
Youku
Youku Tudou Inc. (formerly Youku Inc.), doing business as Youku (), is a video hosting service based in Beijing, China. It operates as a subsidiary of Alibaba Group Holding Limited.
Youku has its headquarters in the Sinosteel Plaza in Haid ...
in 2006, which has been called the "
YouTube
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of China".
Youku merged with
Tudou in 2012,
creating
China's
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largest video platform.
Prior to the announcement of the merger, Youku was the #5 website in China, and Tudou was #4.
Koo has an estimated net worth of $1.1 billion.
Education
Koo attended and graduated from the
University of California, Berkeley
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.
Net worth
Following the 2010 listing of Youku on the
New York Stock Exchange
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, Koo is a
billionaire
A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The American busi ...
.
Personal life
Koo was born in
Hong Kong
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in 1966. His father is from
Guangzhou
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and his mother is from
Tianjin
Tianjin (; ; Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Tientsin (), is a municipality and a coastal metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the nine national central cities in Mainland China, with a total popu ...
. He has one sister.
References
External links
Digital Giants: Victor Koo12 March 2010
news.bbc.co.uk
Living people
1966 births
Hong Kong billionaires
Chinese chief executives
Chinese computer businesspeople
Chinese expatriates in the United States
Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Hong Kong businesspeople
Sohu people
Alibaba Group people
Bain & Company employees
21st-century Chinese businesspeople
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