- Mark Yang
CEO, CARS Group
Business Circle
Yang Haoyong is the CEO of CARS Group, the founder of Guazi.com, Maodou.com
and Ganji.com. Meanwhile, he currently holds the position of joint-founder of
Hike Capital.
Known as the navigator of China’s automotive service industry, CARS Group
owns the renowned brands Guazi Used Cars and Maodou New Cars. The Group is a
one-stop facilitator that provides a comprehensive range of convenient, high-end
and up-to-date retail services of both new and used vehicles based on automotive
whole life cycle, covering trade, evaluation, pricing, financing, insurance and
warranty.
Yang is also a joint-founder of Hike Capital, a continuous developing mentor
fund for new entrepreneurs. The fund primarily focuses on PreA-A rounds of
investments covering technology innovations, general entertainment &
lifestyle and e-commercial platforms.
Yang launched Ganji.com in 2005 and took Ganji to the lead of China's
classifieds advertisements websites not long after. The assessed market value of
Ganji reached 3.6 billion as it announced to merge with 58.com in April
2015.
Before going back to China, Yang used to work with Juniper Networks, one of
the world's largest cyber security companies located in Silicon Valley, as one
of the core development team members. He also started his own business Tromphi
Networks back then.
Yang completed his Bachelor's Degree in Tianjin University, majoring
Precision Instrument. He also obtained a Master’s Degree in Computer Science
from Yale, and a Master’s Degree in Engineering from University of Science and
Technology of China.
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