The founders of the three major e-commerce platforms have all retired from the front line. According to an announcement issued by JD Group on April 7, Xu Lei, President of JD Group, will serve as CEO of JD Group, responsible for daily operations and management.
The founders of the three major e-commerce platforms have all retired from the front line.
The founders of the three major e-commerce platforms have all retired from the front line 1 According to the WeChat public account of JD Blackboard, JD Group announced that Xu Lei, President of JD Group, will serve as CEO of JD Group and will be responsible for daily operations and management, reporting to Liu Qiangdong, Chairman of the Board of Directors of JD Group;
Liu Qiangdong will devote more energy to long-term strategic design, major strategic decision-making and deployment, training of young leading talents and rural revitalization.
Xu Lei took over, while Liu Qiangdong still held the strategic decision-making power. Public information shows that Xu Lei served as a marketing consultant for JD.com in May 2007 and officially joined JD.com in January 2009. He has successively served as the head of the marketing department and the wireless business department of JD.com Mall.
Person, CMO of Jingdong Group.
In July 2018, Xu Lei served as CEO of JD Retail Group, leading the retail business to achieve high-quality growth for three consecutive years.
On September 6 last year, JD.com announced that Xu Lei was promoted to president of JD.com Group, responsible for the daily operations and coordinated development of each business segment.
In the announcement of Xu Lei's two appointments, Liu Qiangdong's control over JD.com has not diminished but increased. In the latest announcement, an item has been added: major strategic decision-making and deployment, which means that Liu Qiangdong still has an important influence on JD.com's important strategies.
Decision-making power.
Huang Zheng resigned as chairman and will devote himself to scientific research in the future. Unlike Liu Qiangdong’s control over JD.com, which has not diminished but increased, Huang Zheng, the founder of Pinduoduo, has truly retreated behind the scenes.
On March 17 last year, when Pinduoduo released its fourth quarter and full-year financial reports for 2020, founder Huang Zheng announced that the board of directors had approved his resignation as chairman, and that co-founder and current CEO Chen Lei would take over.
Huang Zheng stated in his 2021 letter to shareholders that after no longer serving as chairman and Pinduoduo's management position, the increasingly fierce and even alienated competition in the industry has made him realize that traditional competition mainly oriented to scale and efficiency is inevitable.
If we want to change the problem, we must find the answer in core technology and its basic theory.
Huang Zheng said that after resigning as chairman, he will focus more on research in the fields of food science and life sciences based on his personal lifelong interests, and explore new space for high-speed, high-quality and in-depth development for Pinduoduo ten years later.
As early as 2018, in an interview with the media, Huang Zheng said: "I hope to transform into a true scientific researcher in the future."
He once took Benjamin Franklin, who stopped participating in business after the age of 40 but participated in scientific research to invent the lightning rod, as an example to explain why non-profit, whole-hearted scientific research will make greater contributions to mankind.
After resigning as CEO and chairman of the board, and giving up his super voting rights, Huang Zheng almost completely withdrew from Pinduoduo.
However, Huang Zheng still controls 29.4% of Pinduoduo’s shares. As the company’s founder and major shareholder, Huang Zheng still has implicit influence and decision-making power over Pinduoduo.
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