The man behind JD.COM graduated from Yale with a net worth of 20.5 billion! Have an affair with a star.

Author Shen Miao, the border of a city

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After nearly a year, the founder Liu case is still fermenting. While paying attention to the case itself, people also focus on the family history of JD.COM Group. An anecdote has been handed down to this day: 20 10, Liu wants to engage in self-operated logistics, and wants to raise 75 million US dollars, but JD.COM. The asset-oriented model of COM is usually not recognized. At this time, a big boss stood up and said, "Either don't vote, or let me vote for 300 million."

This big brother is Zhang Lei. On the 20 19 Hurun Global Rich List, Zhang Lei's personal net worth is 20.5 billion yuan.

The current investment has given Liu precious financing and made him famous in World War I. ..

300 million to 3.9 billion

Become famous in World War I.

Zhang Lei, founder and CEO of Gaochun Capital.

The story with Liu ended with Gao Xian investing $255 million.

At that time, Zhang Lei's reason was: "This is an industry that needs to burn money. If you don't burn enough money, you won't see the core competitiveness in the logistics and supply chain system. "

Four years later, JD.COM successfully listed on NASDAQ, and Zhang Lei's $300 million became $3.9 billion.

Zhang Lei became famous in the First World War. In fact, before JD.COM, Zhang Lei's investment vision had already shown his unique investment vision.

After returning to China in 2005 to set up Gaoling Capital, the first investment target of Zhang Lei was Tencent. At that time, Tencent was listed soon, and its valuation was less than $2 billion. The most famous product is QQ. After market research, Zhang Lei thought that social traffic would be the next direction, so he led Gaoying Capital to buy a lot of Tencent shares. Today, Tencent has become the Internet giant with the highest market value in Asia, exceeding $400 billion. Later, Zhang Lei once said, "Looking back now, I am surprised to find that Tencent's stock is so cheap."

Compared with Shen Nanpeng, Xu Xiaoping and other "internet celebrities" investors, Zhang Lei's popularity is not high. But in fact, he currently holds more than 400 billion yuan equivalent fund scale, and investment companies are all over the world. His high-quality capital is compared with the top investment funds on Wall Street, and he himself is regarded as one of several China people who are among the mainstream of the global capital discourse pyramid.

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Champion out of town

Be admitted to Yale by the National People's Congress.

Zhang Lei, male, 1972, was born in Zhumadian City, Henan Province. 1990, the top liberal arts student in Henan College Entrance Examination, was admitted to Renmin University of China, and was a top student in a typical small town. There is also a senior from the same middle school: Shi.

Ambitious Zhang Lei, a deputy to the National People's Congress, later came to study at Yale University. Here, Zhang Lei received a master's degree in business administration and a master's degree in international relations. His later company Gaochun Capital got its name from the idiom "strategic location", while its English name "HillHouse Capital" was taken from HillHouse Avenue of Yale University.

Yale gave Zhang Lei more than just the experience of studying abroad and a degree. Here, he was favored by David Swenson, chief investment officer of Yale Fund, and was recruited by him to teach various investment skills. Svencen is the godfather of American investment, and Zhang Lei began to lay the foundation for his future career.

In 2005, Zhang Lei returned to China and founded Gaoying Capital. Svencen allocated $20 million from Yale Investment Fund as start-up capital, and then added $6,543,800+. This start-up capital made Zhang Lei an early investor of Tencent. To this day, Zhang Lei also said that Buffett and Svencen were the two people who had the greatest influence on his investment philosophy.

Because of the hot search on the lace news

Donate 300 million yuan to the National People's Congress

Zhang Lei, who has always been low-key, went on a hot search only because of entertainment stars.

20 17 10, in the entertainment circle, some media reported that Eddie Peng Yuyan Rosa came out, and the other party was a big shot in the domestic financial circle, that is, Zhang Lei, the boss of Gao Yan Capital. Many people in the so-called financial circle have vowed to break the news, saying that all the financial circles in Beijing have heard about it. As soon as the news came out, it immediately detonated the network and quickly boarded the hot search in Weibo.

Then, since the media began to sort out whether there was an intersection between the two, it was found that Eddie Peng Yuyan Yuyan had endorsed the advertisements of the famous laundry detergent brands Blue Moon Xuan, Airbnb and Adidas, the world's largest homestay rental community. Behind these well-known companies, there are high-profile capitals.

Eddie Peng Yuyan Swift Studio immediately stood up and denied the rumor, saying it was pure fabrication and had been handed over to a lawyer. Eddie Peng Yuyan Swift's agent also sent a circle of friends to clarify: "Now the cost of rumors is too low, give me half a dozen hairy crabs to suppress the shock! If it's nothing, wash and sleep! "

Zhang Lei said nothing about this, but it is true that many people know this low-key investment tycoon for the first time. Four months earlier, Zhang Leigang had just donated 300 million yuan to his alma mater, China Renmin University, and established the "China Renmin University High-spirited Education Development Fund". And in his speech, he said something that was later quoted many times to introduce Gaoling Capital-

"Have you ever used WeChat, ridden mobike, used Didi to take a taxi, and cut it on JD.COM? These companies are all invested by Gaochun. "

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