In 1989, China began to formally create the Internet, and set the goal of five-year development. 2005, the Internet development is extremely critical year, this year, Jack Ma's Alibaba is about to take advantage of the rise; Robin Li's Baidu search has also had a lot of users, and many years later the same as the Internet "three giants" of the Ma Huateng, at that time is encountering the onslaught of MSN. At the time when the Internet jungle of these juniors was about to begin, Chen Tianqiao had become China's richest man by virtue of Shanda Networks, ushering in the highlight of his life --
China's richest man at the age of 31 by virtue of the game!
Chen Tianqiao was born in 1973 in a small mountain village in Xinchang County, Zhejiang Province. Since he was a child, his grandparents had high hopes for him, and named him "Chen Tianqiao", which means the bridge that can carry the Chen family to the sky.
The development of every big person is often inseparable from the cultivation of the family. Chen Tianqiao's parents were both intellectuals, his father an engineer at the Shanghai Navigation Instrument Factory and his mother a middle school teacher.
Growing up in such a family, the young Chen Tianqiao showed a distinctive temperament. Chen Tianqiao's middle school teacher, Wang Lihong, once gave him this comment: "As a member of the class, he was not enthusiastic about group activities."
Chen Tianqiao's mother probably knew why. At the time, he had his heart set on being class president, but ended up as a life committee member, which in his mind he was reluctant to accept. It was his character of doing things with a wolf's temperament and going for the first place that played a not insignificant role in his later ventures.
In 1993, Chen Tianqiao, who was in his junior year at Fudan University, completed his credits in advance, and was allowed to graduate early with the status of being the only college student to excel.
At the age of 21, Chen Tianqiao left Fudan University and became an employee of Shanghai Lujiazui Group. It was here that Chen Tianqiao first came into contact with and familiarized himself with the Internet's mode of manipulation.
1998 was the most important turning point in Chen Tianqiao's life. He resolutely refused his boss's appreciation, gave up the easier career path, and chose to go into business the following year.
In that year, Chen Tianqiao used 500,000 yuan to register Shanda Networks with a keen sense of business. In the same year, Chen Tianqiao met the love of his life, Ms. Luo Qianqian, and consummated the wedding in September.
In 2000, Chen Tianqiao's network business had just started, and under the influence of many parties, he had to abandon his car and use all his money to buy the rights to represent the then-unremarkable "Legend" game, preparing to fight with his back against the wall.
In the game's internal testing time, not only decided the game's life and death, but also the biggest test of Chen Tianqiao's career. Have to admit, he bought the "Legend" has a gambling component, if the bet is lost, waiting for him will be an endless abyss, but he won the bet!
From this point on, Chen Tianqiao became a new network nobleman by virtue of the Legend game, and Shanda officially went public in 2004, which not only brought him a huge amount of wealth, but also established the status of the Internet.
In 2005, Chen ushered in the peak of his career, with his fortune growing from $4 billion to more than $8 billion in one year, making him China's richest man that year at the age of 31. And after that year, his life came to a Waterloo.
Threatened to donate 1 billion dollars to the United States, what is the status today?
After a person's career reaches its highest point, then it's downhill for him to go any further. In the years that followed, Chen Tianqiao turned down a billion-dollar investment from Yahoo in the Sina-Shanda battle, which resulted in Jack Ma's Alibaba taking advantage of the situation.
If he had agreed to Yahoo's investment, perhaps today's Internet landscape would have been reshuffled. Since 2009, Chen Tianqiao has been out of the Internet spotlight.
In 2015, Chen Tianqiao will Shanda company completely cashed out 8.8 billion to the United States development, Shanda company officially withdrew from the stage of history. In these years in the United States, but he and his wife threatened to donate 1 billion dollars to the United States for human brain research.
Chen Tianqiao's first donation was $115 million to the California Institute of Technology. When questioned why he didn't donate to China, he said, "It's not my fault that there's a lack of money in Chinese science! We are also talking very seriously about cooperation with Chinese universities."
Despite this, his behavior still caused a lot of impact in that year. 2019, Chen Tianqiao and his wife were ranked 65th on the 2019 Hurun Hundred Wealthy List with a wealth of 40 billion yuan. In fact, from ten years ago, Chen Tianqiao's body could not support such intense command work. Sell Shanda to rush to the United States, the rush is perhaps his best choice.