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Wen Chenghui
Wen Chenghui (温城辉, born 1993) is a Chinese entrepreneur from Guangdong who founded the gift e-commerce app Liwushuo, dubbed the "post-90s Jack Ma" by Chinese media.
William Ding
William Lei Ding (丁磊) is the Chinese billionaire founder and CEO of NetEase, the Hangzhou internet company he built into one of the world's largest online games firms.
Wu Bin (Chinese entrepreneur)
Wu Bin (吴彬) is a Chinese entrepreneur from Nanning, Guangxi, founder and CEO of Qunjielong (群接龙), a WeChat mini-program supplying group-buying tools to community sellers.
Wu Jian
Wu Jian (吴剑) is a Chinese business executive who co-founded the online travel company Tongcheng in Suzhou in 2002, serving as its long-time chief operating officer.
Wu Xianyong
Wu Xianyong (吴显勇) is a Chinese finance entrepreneur who co-founded Touna Wang, a Shenzhen peer-to-peer lending platform, and was later convicted of illegally absorbing public deposits.
Wu Xinhong
Wu Xinhong (吴欣鸿), born 1981, is the founder, CEO, and chairman of Meitu, Inc., the Xiamen photo-editing app company he started in 2008 and listed in Hong Kong in 2016.
Wu Yiran
Wu Yiran (吴逸然) is a Chinese finance executive who co-founded the Beijing peer-to-peer lending platform Yooli.com in 2012 and served as its CEO from September 2015 to 2020.
Wu Zhixiang
Wu Zhixiang (吴志祥) is a Chinese entrepreneur who co-founded Tongcheng, a Suzhou-based online travel agency, in 2004 and led it to a Hong Kong listing in 2018.
Wukong Bicycle
Wukong Bicycle was a dockless bike-sharing startup in Chongqing, China, founded by Lei Houyi, and the first of China's bike-sharing apps to shut down, in 2017.
Xian Le Pin
Xian Le Pin (鲜乐拼) is a Chinese community group-buying platform for fresh produce and household goods, launched in May 2018 in Shijiazhuang and operated by Beijing Tianxia Yimao Technology.
Xiao Dun
Xiao Dun (肖盾) is a Chinese education-technology entrepreneur who co-founded 17zuoye with Liu Chang in 2011, one of China's largest online homework platforms for primary and secondary students.
Xiao Zhilong
Xiao Zhilong (肖志龙) is a Chinese entrepreneur, founder and chairman of Linlin Yi, a Suzhou community group-buying platform launched in March 2018 that raised nearly US$100 million before merging into rival Tongcheng Life in July 2020.
Xiaoming Bike
Xiaoming Bike (小鸣单车) was a dockless bike-sharing service founded in Guangzhou in 2016, which deployed over 430,000 bikes and became China's first bike-sharing company to enter bankruptcy liquidation in 2018.
Xiong Lin
Xiong Lin (熊林) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Ziroom, the Beijing-based long-rental housing operator, in 2011 and has led it as chief executive, becoming chairman in 2021.
Xiongdi Lian
Xiongdi Lian (兄弟连, Xiongdilian Education) was a Beijing adult IT vocational training company best known for PHP training, founded by Li Chao in 2006 and closed in February 2020.
Xu Chenye
Xu Chenye, also known as Daniel Xu (许晨晔), is a Chinese executive who co-founded Tencent in Shenzhen in 1998 and serves as Chief Information Officer.
Xu Jianwen
Xu Jianwen (许建文), born in 1984, is a Chinese internet-finance entrepreneur who founded and led Renren Jucai, a Shenzhen P2P lending platform specializing in car-backed loans.
Xu Li (business executive)
Xu Li (徐立) is a Chinese computer-vision researcher and business executive who co-founded SenseTime in 2014 and has served as its chief executive officer, adding the executive chairman role in 2023.
Xu Yong (businessman)
Xu Yong (徐勇), known as Eric Yong Xu, is a Chinese biochemist-turned-businessman who co-founded Baidu with Robin Li and served as its chief strategy officer until 2004.
Xu Zheng (Chinese entrepreneur)
Xu Zheng (徐正) is the Chinese entrepreneur who founded and led MissFresh, the Beijing online grocer that listed on Nasdaq in 2021 and collapsed a year later.
Xue Dong
Xue Dong (薛鼎) is a Chinese entrepreneur who co-founded the Beijing bike-sharing company ofo in 2014 alongside Dai Wei and three other Peking University students.
Xue Liang
Xue Liang (薛亮) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded the wealth-management platform Jucaimao in Shanghai in 2014 and was convicted of fundraising fraud in 2021.
Xuebajun
Xuebajun (学霸君) was a Shanghai-based Chinese K12 education-technology company founded in 2013 by Zhang Kailei, known for its photo-search homework app and abrupt December 2020 shutdown.
Ya-Qin Zhang
Ya-Qin Zhang, also known as Zhang Yaqin or 张亚勤, is a Chinese AI scientist and executive who served as president of Baidu from 2014 to 2019.
Yang Haoyong
Yang Haoyong (杨浩涌) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who founded the classifieds site Ganji.com in Beijing in 2005, was co-CEO of 58.com after their 2015 merger, and then led the used-car platform Guazi.
Yang Jun (internet entrepreneur)
Yang Jun (杨俊) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur, born in 1984, who co-founded the social network Xiaonei, was Meituan's vice president of sales, and founded Songshu Pinpin.
Yang Lingang 杨㟀罡
Yang Lingang, also known as Alston, is a Chinese finance entrepreneur and Peking University graduate who co-founded the Beijing internet gold investment platform G-banker, which collapsed in 2020.
Yang Yifu
Yang Yifu (杨一夫, born 1984) is a Chinese entrepreneur who co-founded the P2P lending platform Renrendai in Beijing in 2010, running risk control until the government shut the sector in 2020.
Yao Jinbo
Yao Jinbo (姚劲波), born in 1976 in Yiyang, Hunan, is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who founded the classifieds platform 58.com in 2005 and led its 2013 New York Stock Exchange listing.
Yao Runhao
Yao Runhao (姚润昊), born 1988, is a Chinese gaming entrepreneur who founded Paper Games in Suzhou in 2013, a studio specializing in games for female players such as Love and Producer.