Richard Liu
刘强东
Richard Liu is an entrepreneur and investor who backed NIO, the electric-vehicle company. In a widely quoted 2017 scene at a NIO launch event, his wife Zhang Zetian described how NIO founder Li Bin came to their home, spent 15 minutes pitching the idea to Liu, and received a "yes" in ten seconds . He also appears in 暗涌Waves's coverage of China's venture-capital scene as a guest at Sequoia China's 2015 tenth-anniversary celebration alongside figures such as Shen Nanpeng and Wang Xing , and in a 2024 accounting of billionaire wealth declines, where his fortune had dropped by more than 100 billion yuan from its 2020 e-commerce peak . The bundle does not cover his founding of JD.com or his background beyond these investment and public-appearance notes.
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