2026 · Investor/Pass Founder Ledger
Group 3 - Internet 1.0 — Group Context
Ding Lei belongs to Group 3 - Internet 1.0. The Internet 1.0 group covers founders who built China's first generation of consumer-internet platforms in the late-1990s and early-2000s dot-com era — search (Baidu), e-commerce (Alibaba), portals (Sohu), gaming and portals (NetEase, Tencent), security software (Qihoo 360), and smartphones-plus-software (Xiaomi) — a cohort shaped by the 2001 WTO accession and the PC-to-mobile transition.