Hu Weiwei (, born 1982) is a Chinese journalist and businesswoman. She is a co-founder of bicycle-sharing company

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Personal

Hu was born in

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in 1982. She studied at the Department of Journalism of the Zhejiang City College (2000–2004) and graduated with a bachelor of communication. Hu has a son who was born in circa 2010.

Career

Hu worked for the ''Daily Economic News'' (每经网), a Chinese business newspaper, mainly covering tech news on cars. She then worked for ''

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'' and for ''Business Value'' specialising in technology news. In 2014 Hu founded the media platform GeekCar. Through her contacts in the automobile and technology sector, Hu assembled a team in late 2015 to start a bicycle-sharing company and launched

in January 2016. Co-founder Wang Xiaofeng, the general manager for the

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office of

Uber Uber Technologies, Inc. (Uber), based in San Francisco, provides mobility as a service, ride-hailing (allowing users to book a car and driver to transport them in a way similar to a taxi), food delivery (Uber Eats and Postmates), package ...

also known by his English name Davis Wang, became Mobike's CEO. Unable to purchase bikes from suppliers to the preferred specifications, the company built its own bikes which rolled out from April 2016. Early in 2017, Hu was one of seven leaders, scholars and entrepreneurs to present to

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of China

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and other political leaders to provide ideas for the annual Government Report. In early April 2018, it was announced that Mobike had been acquired by Chinese web company

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for US$2.7 billion,. Wang was reportedly opposed to the takeover and left Mobike at the end of that month, with Hu taking on the role of CEO. Hu left Mobike in December 2018 "for personal reasons". Hu is a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Recognition

The American business magazine ''

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'' listed Hu and her business partner Xia Yiping as number twenty on its 2017 "40 under 40" list. Mobike Awarded with UN’s Top Environmental Prize - 2017 Champion of the Earth. In 2018, Hu Weiwei made the Forbes Asia Emergent Women 25 List. Mobike won iF Design Award for 4 projects. Mobike won Red Dot Design Award for its "New Lite" and "Mobike E-bike".

References

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