Yu Liu (

Chinese Chinese can refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation ** List of ethnic groups in China, people of va ...

: 刘禹; born in 1986), also known as Eric Liu, is a Chinese entrepreneur and the founder of One Cloud Technologies (operations and patents acquired by Alibaba Group). Between 2015 and 2018, Liu was the head of Alibaba Group's language business unit. During that period Liu was also a member o
LocWorld's advisory committee
and a special advisor to

Mobike Mobike ( zh, s=摩拜单车, p=mó bài dān chē), also known as Meituanbike, founded by Beijing Mobike Technology Co., Ltd. ( zh, s=北京摩拜科技有限公司), is a fully station-less bicycle-sharing system headquartered in Beijing, Chin ...

. In 2018, Liu was reported to join Mobike as President and in 2019 became its CEO.

Early life

Liu was born in Beijing, China. He attended high school at

Shanghai High School Shanghai High School () is a top public high school in Shanghai, China. It also has an international division, the Shanghai High School International Division. In a 2016 ranking of Chinese high schools that send students to study in American univer ...

and received his bachelor degree from

Vassar College Vassar College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, it was the second degree-granting institution of higher education for women in the United States, closely follo ...

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, New York. While in college, he was the managing editor of the campus daily, the Vassar Miscellany News.

Career

In 2011, Liu built th
365Fanyi
( 365翻译)
Zuodao
(做到) dual-site crowdsourcing platform, one of the earliest and largest Internet-based language services in China, and was selected to be a 2011

Ashoka Ashoka (, ; also ''Asoka''; 304 – 232 BCE), popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was the third emperor of the Maurya Empire of Indian subcontinent during to 232 BCE. His empire covered a large part of the Indian subcontinent, ...

Changemaker, the only finalist from the country. The platform had been operated by One Cloud Technologies until Alibaba announced its acquisition in August 2015. Early investors included Xu Xiaoping, Anna Fang,

Zhenfund ZhenFund () is a Beijing-based venture capital firm founded in 2011 by New Oriental co-founders Bob Xu and Victor Wang. It is considered one of the largest Angel investors in China. Background In 2011, Bob Xu and Victor Wang established Zhen ...

, Sequoia China and CBC Capital. After the acquisition, Liu joined Alibaba Group to become the head of its language business unit. During his keynote speech a
TAUS Annual Conference 2016
in Portland, Liu stated that the mission of Alibaba's language unit is to "prepare for a future without language barriers". In January 2017, Liu announced that Alibaba will make a significant investment to integrate artificial intelligence into language technologies. While in his role at Alibaba, Liu invested and advised numerous startups, including being a special advisor to Mobike. In 2018, Liu was reported to join Mobike as President and in 2019 became its CEO.

Early life

Career

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