Changlin Liang

Changlin Liang is the founder and CEO of Dingdong Maicai (叮咚买菜), a Chinese fresh grocery e-commerce platform. In Gaorong Ventures' portrait from early 2020, he described the company's ethos as opposing "gimmicks and tricks" in favor of "hard and unsexy things" — building out nearly 550 front warehouses across six cities and processing over 500,000 daily orders by late 2019, with monthly revenue reaching RMB 700 million that December . Gaorong, which first invested in Dingdong in May 2018 and went from first meeting to wire transfer in just 13 days, noted it was the company's earliest backer and sole investor in its first two rounds . Liang took Dingdong public on the NYSE in June 2021, remarking at the listing ceremony that the mission of "letting everyone enjoy great ingredients" remained at the foot of a very tall mountain .