刘强东，男，汉族，1974年2月14日生，江苏宿迁人，祖籍湖南湘潭。京东集团董事局主席，本科毕业于中国人民大学，民建会员， 河北省阜平县平石头村名誉村主任 。

1998年6月18日，在中关村创办京东公司，代理销售光磁产品，并担任总经理 。2004年，初涉足电子商务领域，创办“京东多媒体网”（京东商城的前身），并出任CEO。京东商城已成为中国最大的自营式电商企业 ，而京东集团业务已涉及零售、数字科技、物流、健康、保险、物流地产、云计算、AI和海外等领域 。2014年5月，京东在美国纳斯达克成功上市。

2020年4月6日，刘强东以950亿元人民币财富名列《胡润全球百强企业家》第89位；5月12日，刘强东夫妇以584.2亿元人民币财富名列《2020新财富500富人榜》第31位。12月10日，刘强东卸任宜昌旭东科越物流有限公司经理。

1974年，刘强东出生在江苏最穷的一个城市“宿迁”。

小的时候家里穷到一连数年每天的三餐只有红薯和玉米。

他的父母是地道的农民，为了生计，父亲四处借钱买了一条船，一年四季风雨无阻地漂泊在海浪之中。

由于父母经常出海，他和妹妹从小被寄养在外婆家。

5岁左右的刘强东，便呈现出他独立性的一面，妹妹饿了，他就用砖块搭起灶台做饭。再大一点的他，割猪草、挑粪、弹棉花等他什么都做。从小练就了一身独立的个性。

小学四年级之前，刘强东一年只能吃上一两次猪肉。平日里偶尔吃一次，然后过春节的时候会吃一次。

每当春节的时候，外婆到镇上买猪肉，总会请求店主多给一些肥肉，这样就可以做猪油。

平日里吃不到肉，就用猪油拌米饭吃，饭吃完了，再用热水冲一碗猪油花汤，一直喝到再也没有油花为止。

刘强东最喜欢的一道菜是扣肉，唯一能让他吃上这道菜的，只有村里喜事的酒席上。

村里有嫁娶的喜事，大家都会去喝喜酒，但每家都会带上一两个小孩子，所以，肉一般是不够吃的，往往是盘子还没有放到桌子，肉就被抢光了。而刘强东总是抢不到肉的那个小孩，他只能吃盘子里剩下的油。

日常的三餐也只是吃玉米和红薯。像馒头、米饭只能在过年的时候吃上几次而已。

刘强东曾说，他离开宿迁后，15年没吃过红薯。因为吃怕了！

小时候的刘强东，不但独立性强，还是班里的尖子生，一直是镇上的第一名。

作为全村唯一的大学生，全村人凑了500块和76个鸡蛋。

带着全村的嘱托和仅有的物资，刘强东踏上了去往北京的列车。他知道，从此他必须独立生存，家里和村里再也拿不出一分钱给他了。

大学期间，刘强东确实做到了独立生活，没有向家里要一分钱。

大一就开始各种兼职，人大的老师办培训班，他就兼职抄信封。那时候，广告宣传没有这么发达，基本靠邮寄定向打广告，而抄信封成了刘强东兼职的一份工作。最多的时候一个月能赚到一千多元。

大二后，刘强东帮老师卖书，这份兼职算是一份“美差”，那时候的书也好卖，又不用加班熬

比抄信封赚得多。一个暑假能赚一两万块钱，在那个年代，这可是一笔不小的数目。

大三的时间，刘强东兼职的工作更上一层楼，利用自学编程技术，帮助老家电力部门，编了一套电力管理系统，给沈阳一家快餐店编了一套餐饮管理系统，着实让他大赚一笔。

利用这个技术，刘强东很快买了一部“大哥大”的手机，同时，还买了一台“学生机”。

积累了一部分资金后，刘强东开始筹划自己创业的事情。

大四那一年，他发现学校附近的餐饮店，从不缺人气，家家生意都是特别红火，眼尖的刘强东决定开一家餐馆。

他拿出自己全部的积蓄，又跟亲戚朋友借了一部分，凑足了20万把学校附近的一家饭馆盘了下来。

学生时期的刘强东，便体现了“以人为本”的生意策略，他给餐厅的员工工资高出行业两倍，还给每一位员工配上手表，吃的方面，必须每天两荤两素，不允许吃饭店剩下的菜，固定的日子里还可以喝点酒。

但是，他的良心却被当成“漏洞”，采购员低价采购食材，却开高价发票，从中赚取差价，大厨和前台收银员谈起了恋爱，收银不计入账单，两人悄悄的将部分钱纳入私人腰包。

大学毕业后，刘强东进入一家外企，从最初的销售做起，一路升任物流、信息、管理等职位，每月从2000多元干到每月4000多元的工资，这在90年代末，绝对算是非常高的待遇了。

遭受一次创业失败的刘强东，本想拿着高工资过几年安稳日子。可突如其来的一场变故，让刘强东走向了创业之路。

1998年，刘强东的家里如同发生一场灾难性的事故，一家人维持生计的船沉入海底，好在家人没有发生意外。当时父母瞒着刘强东好久。后来，刘强东知道了这件事，要求父母不要再跑船了，所欠的钱由他来偿还。

家庭从此断了生计，所欠债务成为刘强东第2件扎心的事情！

或许是命运的使然，刘强东面对家里所欠债务，使他迫不得已再次走上创业的道路上。

如果不是家庭事故，刘强东的创业之路可能会晚几年，时代瞬息万变。晚几年的机遇会截然不同，也许就不会造就今天的京东了。或者说是另一个版本的刘强东！

1998年6月，不甘心打工的他，背着父母在中关村租了个柜台，买了一台二手电脑和一辆二手三轮车，取名为京东多媒体。从此，刘强东开启了京东的创业之旅。

“京东”是龚晓京和刘强东名字的组成部分，龚晓京是刘强东的第一任女朋友。

当时的中关村，是全国最有名的电子产品批发销售市场。但这里，也是最“黑”的市场，假货、山寨版等真假难分，经常因买卖发生打架斗殴的事情。

最初，刘强东主要是卖婚纱影楼视频编辑系统和硬件设备。

从第一天做生意开始，刘强东便要求自己，坚持高性价比服务的原则。合理的定价、高质量的服务。同时，拒绝还价。坚持售卖正品，开正规发票，假一赔十！

由于他坚持正品、低价、高质量的服务，使他的店面口碑越来越好，生意也越来越红火。后来，他开始加卖光磁产品、刻录机、录像带以及电脑产品及维修。

为了提高销量及店铺的知名度，刘强东专门设立了配送服务，为其他柜台送货，并承诺2分钟送货上门，超出2分钟时间，赔偿10元钱。

那个时候的刘强东，脑海里便有了物流配送的服务理念。

因为坚持打造用户体验、货真价低的服务原则，刘强东的客户粉丝越来越多，生意异常火爆。

由于他进货量非常之大，有了跟上游厂商议价的资本，在价格上更具竞争力。

2001年，刘强东已成为当时中国最大的光磁产品代理商，在全国铺开了十几家分销点。刘强东的财富突破了1000万元。

有了资金，刘强东的野心更大了，他在北大资源楼12层，租了一间18平米的办公室。又经过一年多的的发展，他把整个12层全部买下来，而此时的刘强东，把目光投向了国美，学习打造国美的零售商业模式，建立京东品牌的连锁店。

正当刘强东集中所有集力准备全国扩张的战略时，2003年的非典突然席卷全国，这场没有任何前兆的瘟疫，让刘强东一夜之间关停了所有的柜台。生意一时陷入僵局！

店铺的关门大吉，这是实体行业的大忌。刘强东在21天的时间里，亏掉了800多万。在20年前，800万是多么可怕的一个数字。巨大的亏损，让刘强东第一次感觉到害怕。他不知道这场非典疫情什么时候能过去，按照这种状态持续下去，公司将在维持三个月后破产关门。

那段时间，刘强东经常为困守在一起的兄弟们下厨做饭，每天都要讨论如何度过这次难关。

在一次讨论会上，一位员工说，这种情况下，可以试试网上销售。

于是，刘强东采取最传统的网上发贴的办法，在论坛上发布产品信息，加大促销及团购优惠力度，附上联系方式，用户购买，通过物流、快递方式发货给用户。

巧的是，该论坛的版主，是京东一位老用户，他说：“5年我没有见过这家公司卖假货”版主的这句话之后，才有人在论坛上买京东的产品。

通过这个论坛，刘强东勉强熬过了“寒冬”。

但是，“寒冬”过去了，迎面而来的是他的感情又出现了问题。

刘强东的女友龚小京，一家三代都是“从政”人员，根本不愿意女儿从事一份销售光盘的工作，也看不上穷困家庭出生的刘强东，一直阻碍、干扰他们的恋爱，在万般无奈下，龚小京被迫与刘强东分手，从此，离开了京东。

一场疫情让刘强东损失千万元，加上初恋女友的分道扬镳，这是刘强东第3件扎心的事。

当通过这一场意外，让刘强东摸索出互联网的销售模式，可以说，这场非典促使京东成功转型。

找到更好的销售通路，剩下的全是刘强东的强项，打造正品价值、合理的价格策略、提高用户服务体验。京东三大铁的定律，让刘强东一路开挂，事业越做越大。

在那个互联网“逐鹿中原”的时代，刘强东一直坚持自己的铁律原则。

2004年，阿里获得1亿元的融资；当当网成功上市，亚马逊也是一种势不可挡的架势冲上来。

而刘强东却要打造自己的物流体系，实行销售、配送一条龙服务，这个模式遭到了所有人的反对。要知道，彼时的大佬们做的都是“轻资产”模式，刘强东无疑是背道而驰，打造实体的运营模式，这可是烧钱的事，在那个京东还是一名“小老弟”的时期，风险之大可想而知！

看到电商的红利后，刘强东逐步撤掉实体柜台，转型发展互联网及京东物流模式。

2006年，刘强东陆续将资金投入到仓储物流和京东商城的建设中。但这种耗资的投入，必须依靠资方的支持。

很快，刘强东获得了第一笔1000万美元的融资。

今日资本徐新是刘强东的第一位伯乐，她要求刘强东，在未来的几年可以不实现利润，以抢占市场为主。

但霸气的刘强东直接给出承诺，2007年销售额8000万，2008年销售额突破3.5亿，2009年销售额达到10个亿

2007年，刘强东确实超额完成目标，但紧接2008年的金融危机来了，让京东的估值从1.5亿美元降到了8000万美元。

刘强东又再一次恐惧起来，强打精神四处融资，一天最少要见四、五投资人，最疯狂的时候，他一周见了50位投资人。几乎跑遍了整个投资圈，但依然没有什么结果，眼看京东就要彻底崩盘。供应商闹事、兄弟们工资发不上，三十几岁的刘强东，一夜之间白了一撮头发，每天只能靠喝酒缓解压力。

这时，还是徐新伸出援助之手，找到了香港富豪梁伯韬，这一次，让刘强东完成了2100万美元的融资。

拿到这笔钱后，刘强东的第一件事就是升级京东的物流体系，完善服务技术和网络建设。

刘强东再一次起死回生，而这一次刘强东开始让京东脱变，并逐步形成有效的竞争力。

2010年，刘强东继续扩张，他找到了人大的学长张磊，想要融资7500万美元。全面扩建京东的仓储物流。

张磊是高瓴资本的创始人，投资过腾讯、滴滴、蔚来等，被称为中国的巴菲特，投资眼光十分独到！

对于刘强东的想法，张磊认为7500万美元，根本做不成事。

他要求刘强东至少融3个亿，否则他不会投。在张磊看来，刘强东的提案，如同美国的亚马逊一样，京东完全可以做到中国式的亚马逊，但资金规模需要达到25亿元。

显然，刘强东被张磊的前瞻眼光所折服了，同时，也提醒了他，打造中国式的亚马逊。两人一拍即合！

很快，张磊以10亿美元的估值投向京东，让京东获得2.65元美元，后来又追加了5000万美元。

因为有了资金，京东很快与阿里巴巴形成了差异化竞争。京东自建物流，绝对是重资产，非常烧钱，但是如果没有京东的物流体系，京东应该不会坚持多久就会被淘汰，至少达不到今天的高度。

2012年，全网闻名的“京东大战苏宁”之战，让刘强东成功将经销商和用户黏到了京东平台上。虽然京东被骂为“行业搅局者”，但这是刘强东准备多时的策略，为了京东的发展，为了用户买到货真价实的商品，为了用户得到更好的服务体验，被骂几句又算得了什么。

在互联网快速发展的那几年，京东的自建物流优势，得到了充分发挥的作用，京东因此得到了飞跃的发展。

2014年，京东结伴腾讯，双方形成战略合作。

借助腾讯的流量优势，使更多的人得知京东的服务模式，让更多的人成为了京东的用户。自此，京东开启了全面扩张的发展。

2014年5月，京东成功在美国上市，市值超过300亿美元。刘强东成为名副其实的电商“头把交椅”。

2017年，第四届乌镇互联网大会，一群互联网大BOSS在乌镇聚集，堪称全球最贵的一顿饭局。

在这帮造就互联网巨头的创业者中，唯一不同是，京东没有合伙人，只有刘强东。

腾讯有5位创始人，阿里有18罗汉，百度有七剑客，小米有七联创，美团起码还有王慧文。

唯独京东，刘强东以一己之力造就京东，钢铁神经制霸董事会，他是一个不需要合伙人的可怕人物，在这传统行业或许有，但在互联网公司里极其少见。

Liu Qiangdong, male, Han ethnicity, born on February 14, 1974, from Suqian, Jiangsu, with ancestral roots in Xiangtan, Hunan. Chairman of the Board of Directors of JD Group, graduated from Renmin University of China with a bachelor's degree, a member of the Civil Construction Association, and the Honorary Village Director of Pingshitou Village, Fuping County, Hebei Province.

On June 18, 1998, JD.com was founded in Zhongguancun as an agent for the sales of optical and magnetic products, and served as the general manager. In 2004, he first entered the field of e-commerce and founded "JD Multimedia Network" (the predecessor of JD.com), where he served as the CEO. JD.com has become the largest self operated e-commerce enterprise in China, and JD Group's business has involved retail, digital technology, logistics, health, insurance, logistics real estate, cloud computing AI and overseas fields. In May 2014, JD.com successfully went public on NASDAQ in the United States.

On April 6, 2020, Liu Qiangdong ranked 89th on Hurun Global Top 100 Entrepreneurs with a wealth of 95 billion yuan; On May 12th, Liu Qiangdong and his wife ranked 31st on the 2020 New Fortune 500 Rich List with a wealth of 58.42 billion yuan. On December 10th, Liu Qiangdong stepped down as the manager of Yichang Xudong Keyue Logistics Co., Ltd.

In 1974, Liu Qiangdong was born in Suqian, the poorest city in Jiangsu Province.

When I was young, my family was so poor that they only had sweet potatoes and corn for three meals a day for several years.

His parents are authentic farmers. In order to make a living, his father borrowed money from various places to buy a boat and drifted in the waves all year round, regardless of wind or rain.

Due to his parents frequently going abroad, he and his sister were fostered at his grandmother's house since childhood.

Liu Qiangdong, who is around 5 years old, shows his independent side. When his sister is hungry, he builds a stove with bricks to cook. He, who is a bit older, does everything such as cutting pig grass, picking manure, and bouncing cotton. I have developed an independent personality since childhood.

Before the fourth grade of elementary school, Liu Qiangdong could only eat pork once or twice a year. I occasionally eat it on weekdays, and then I eat it once during the Spring Festival.

Whenever during the Spring Festival, my grandmother goes to the town to buy pork and always requests the shopkeeper to give more fat so that we can make lard.

If you can't eat meat on weekdays, mix it with rice and lard. After finishing the meal, rinse a bowl of pork oil flower soup with hot water and drink until there are no more oil flowers.

Liu Qiangdong's favorite dish is braised pork, and the only one that can make him enjoy it is at the happy banquet in the village.

There is a wedding celebration in the village, and everyone goes to drink the wedding wine. However, each family brings one or two children, so there is usually not enough meat to eat. Often, the meat is snatched away before the plates are placed on the table. And Liu Qiangdong always couldn't grab the meat from the child, he could only eat the remaining oil on the plate.

My daily three meals are just corn and sweet potatoes. For example, Mantou and rice can only be eaten several times during the Spring Festival.

Liu Qiangdong once said that he had not eaten sweet potatoes for 15 years after leaving Suqian. Because I'm afraid of eating!

When Liu Qiangdong was a child, he not only had strong independence, but also was a top student in his class, always ranking first in the town.

As the only college student in the village, the whole village gathered 500 yuan and 76 eggs.

With the instructions of the whole village and the only supplies available, Liu Qiangdong boarded the train to Beijing. He knew that he had to survive independently from then on, and his family and village would never give him a penny again.

During his college years, Liu Qiangdong did indeed live independently and did not ask for a penny from his family.

Starting from his freshman year, he started various part-time jobs. When a teacher from Renmin University runs a training class, he also takes on the part-time job of copying envelopes. At that time, advertising was not as developed as before, and basically relied on targeted advertising by mail, while copying envelopes became a part-time job for Liu Qiangdong. At most, one can earn over a thousand yuan per month.

After his sophomore year, Liu Qiangdong helped his teacher sell books. This part-time job was considered a "good job". At that time, books were also easy to sell and there was no need to work overtime

I earn more than copying envelopes. A summer vacation can earn ten to twenty thousand yuan, which was a considerable amount in that era.

During his junior year, Liu Qiangdong took his part-time job to the next level. He used self-learning programming skills to help his hometown's power department develop an electricity management system and a catering management system for a fast food restaurant in Shenyang, which really helped him make a fortune.

Using this technology, Liu Qiangdong quickly bought a "big brother" mobile phone, as well as a "student phone".

After accumulating some funds, Liu Qiangdong began planning his own entrepreneurship.

In his senior year, he discovered that the restaurant near the school never lacked popularity, and every family's business was particularly prosperous. Sharp eyed Liu Qiangdong decided to open a restaurant.

He took out all his savings and borrowed a portion from relatives and friends, raising 200000 yuan to buy a restaurant near the school.

During his student years, Liu Qiangdong demonstrated a "people-oriented" business strategy. He paid restaurant employees twice as much as the industry, and even equipped each employee with a watch. In terms of food, he had to eat two meat and two vegetables a day, and was not allowed to eat leftover dishes from the restaurant. He could also drink alcohol on fixed days.

However, his conscience was seen as a "loophole". The purchaser purchased ingredients at low prices but issued high priced invoices to earn the price difference. The chef and the front desk cashier started dating, and the cashier did not count towards the bill. The two secretly included some of the money in their personal wallets.

After graduating from university, Liu Qiangdong entered a foreign company and started as a salesperson. He was promoted all the way to positions in logistics, information, management, etc. He worked from over 2000 yuan per month to over 4000 yuan per month, which was definitely a very high salary in the late 1990s.

Liu Qiangdong, who suffered from a failed entrepreneurship, originally wanted to live a stable life with a high salary for a few years. A sudden incident led Liu Qiangdong onto the path of entrepreneurship.

In 1998, Liu Qiangdong's family experienced a catastrophic accident when their livelihood boat sank to the bottom of the sea. Fortunately, their family did not have any accidents. At that time, my parents kept it a secret from Liu Qiangdong for a long time. Later, Liu Qiangdong learned about this and requested his parents not to run on the boat anymore. He would repay the money he owed.

From then on, the family's livelihood was cut off, and the debt owed became Liu Qiangdong's second heart wrenching thing!

Perhaps due to fate, Liu Qiangdong faced the debt owed by his family, which forced him to embark on the path of entrepreneurship again.

If it weren't for a family accident, Liu Qiangdong's entrepreneurial journey may have been delayed by a few years, and the times are changing rapidly. A few years later, the opportunities will be completely different, and perhaps it won't create today's JD.com. Or rather, it's another version of Liu Qiangdong!

In June 1998, unwilling to work, he rented a counter in Zhongguancun with his parents behind his back, bought a second-hand computer and a second-hand tricycle, and named it JD Multimedia. From then on, Liu Qiangdong embarked on JD's entrepreneurial journey.

"JD" is a part of the names of Gong Xiaojing and Liu Qiangdong, and Gong Xiaojing was Liu Qiangdong's first girlfriend.

At that time, Zhongguancun was the most famous wholesale and sales market for electronic products in the country. But here, it is also the most "black" market, where fake and counterfeit versions are difficult to distinguish between real and fake, and fights and fights often occur due to buying and selling.

Initially, Liu Qiangdong mainly sold video editing systems and hardware equipment for wedding photography studios.

From the first day of doing business, Liu Qiangdong demanded that he adhere to the principle of high cost performance service. Reasonable pricing and high-quality service. At the same time, refuse to negotiate. Persist in selling genuine products, issue formal invoices, and compensate ten for one fake product!

Due to his insistence on authentic, low-priced, and high-quality services, his storefront reputation has improved and his business has become increasingly prosperous. Later, he began to sell optical and magnetic products, recorders, videotapes, as well as computer products and repairs.

In order to increase sales and brand awareness, Liu Qiangdong has set up a delivery service specifically to deliver goods to other counters, and promised to deliver goods to his doorstep within 2 minutes. If the delivery time exceeds 2 minutes, he will be compensated with 10 yuan.

At that time, Liu Qiangdong had a service concept of logistics and distribution in his mind.

Due to his adherence to the service principle of creating a user experience and offering genuine products at low prices, Liu Qiangdong's customer base is increasing and his business is exceptionally hot.

Due to his large purchase volume, he has the capital to negotiate with upstream manufacturers, making him more competitive in terms of price.

In 2001, Liu Qiangdong had become the largest distributor of optical and magnetic products in China at that time, with more than ten distribution points nationwide. Liu Qiangdong's wealth has exceeded 10 million yuan.

With the funds, Liu Qiangdong's ambition became even greater. He rented an 18 square meter office on the 12th floor of the Peking University Resource Building. After more than a year of development, he bought the entire 12 floors, and at this time, Liu Qiangdong turned his attention to Gome, learning to build Gome's retail business model, and establishing JD brand chain stores.

Just as Liu Qiangdong was concentrating all his efforts to prepare for the national expansion strategy, the SARS outbreak in 2003 suddenly swept across the country. This epidemic without any warning caused Liu Qiangdong to shut down all the counters overnight. Business has reached a deadlock for a while!

The closure of a store is a taboo in the physical industry. Liu Qiangdong lost over 8 million in 21 days. 20 years ago, 8 million was such a terrifying number. The huge loss made Liu Qiangdong feel scared for the first time. He doesn't know when the SARS epidemic will pass. If this situation continues, the company will go bankrupt and close down after three months.

During that time, Liu Qiangdong often cooked for his brothers who were trapped together, and every day he discussed how to get through this difficult time.

At a discussion meeting, an employee said that in this situation, it is possible to try online sales.

So, Liu Qiangdong adopted the most traditional method of posting online, posting product information on forums, increasing promotion and group buying discounts, attaching contact information, allowing users to purchase and ship to them through logistics and express delivery.

Coincidentally, the moderator of this forum is an old user of JD.com, who said, "I haven't seen this company selling counterfeit goods in 5 years." It was only after the moderator's statement that someone bought JD's products on the forum.

Through this forum, Liu Qiangdong barely survived the "cold winter".

However, as the "cold winter" passed, his emotions encountered problems again.

Liu Qiangdong's girlfriend Gong Xiaojing, a family of three generations who have been in politics, does not want her daughter to work as a salesperson of CDs, nor does she have any interest in Liu Qiangdong, who was born into a poor family. She has been hindering and interfering with their love life. In desperation, Gong Xiaojing was forced to break up with Liu Qiangdong and left JD.com ever since.

A pandemic caused Liu Qiangdong to lose millions of yuan, and coupled with the departure of his first girlfriend, this is Liu Qiangdong's third heart wrenching incident.

When Liu Qiangdong found out the sales model of the Internet through this accident, it can be said that the SARS caused the successful transformation of JD.

Finding a better sales channel, all that remains is Liu Qiangdong's strengths, creating authentic value, reasonable pricing strategies, and improving user service experience. The laws of the three major railways of JD.com have enabled Liu Qiang to pursue success and expand his career.

In the era of the Internet "chasing the Central Plains", Liu Qiangdong has always adhered to his iron principle.

In 2004, Alibaba obtained a financing of 100 million yuan; When Dang.com successfully went public, Amazon also rushed forward with an unstoppable momentum.

However, Liu Qiangdong's plan to build his own logistics system and implement a one-stop sales and delivery service has been opposed by everyone. You should know that at that time, the big shots were all doing a "light asset" model. Liu Qiangdong undoubtedly went against the trend and built a physical operation model, which was a burning business. In that era when JD.com was still a "little brother", the risks were unimaginable!

After seeing the dividend of e-commerce, Liu Qiangdong gradually removed the physical counter and transformed the development of the Internet and JD logistics model.

In 2006, Liu Qiangdong gradually invested funds in the construction of warehousing and logistics and JD.com. But this kind of costly investment must rely on the support of the capital.

Quickly, Liu Qiangdong obtained his first $10 million financing.

Today's Capital Xu Xin is Liu Qiangdong's first Bo Le. She demands that Liu Qiangdong not realize profits in the coming years and focus on seizing the market.

But the domineering Liu Qiangdong directly made a promise, with sales of 80 million yuan in 2007, sales exceeding 350 million yuan in 2008, and sales reaching 1 billion yuan in 2009

In 2007, Liu Qiangdong did indeed exceed his target, but the financial crisis that followed in 2008 lowered JD's valuation from $150 million to $80 million.

Liu Qiangdong once again became fearful and forced himself to raise funds everywhere. He had to meet at least four or five investors a day, and at his craziest, he met 50 investors a week. I have almost run through the entire investment circle, but still have no results, and I see JD.com about to completely collapse. The supplier caused trouble and his brothers couldn't pay their wages. Liu Qiangdong, who was in his thirties, lost a tuft of white hair overnight and could only relieve his stress by drinking alcohol every day.

At this time, it was Xu Xin who extended a helping hand and found Hong Kong tycoon Liang Botao. This time, Liu Qiangdong completed a financing of 21 million US dollars.

After receiving this money, Liu Qiangdong's first task was to upgrade JD's logistics system, improve service technology and network construction.

Liu Qiangdong has once again come back to life, and this time Liu Qiangdong has begun to transform JD.com and gradually form effective competitiveness.

In 2010, Liu Qiangdong continued to expand and approached Zhang Lei, a senior at the National People's Congress, to raise $75 million in funding. Fully expand JD's warehousing and logistics.

Zhang Lei is the founder of Hillhouse Capital, who has invested in Tencent, Didi, NIO, and others. He is known as the Buffett of China and has a very unique investment vision!

Regarding Liu Qiangdong's ideas, Zhang Lei believes that 75 million US dollars is simply not feasible.

He demanded that Liu Qiangdong raise at least 300 million yuan, otherwise he would not invest. In Zhang Lei's view, Liu Qiangdong's proposal, like Amazon in the United States, JD.com can fully achieve a Chinese style Amazon, but the funding scale needs to reach 2.5 billion yuan.

Obviously, Liu Qiangdong was impressed by Zhang Lei's forward-looking vision, while also reminding him to build a Chinese style Amazon. The two hit it off at once!

Quickly, Zhang Lei invested in JD.com with a valuation of 1 billion US dollars, allowing JD.com to receive 2.65 US dollars, and later added an additional 50 million US dollars.

Due to the availability of funds, JD.com quickly formed a differentiated competition with Alibaba. JD's self built logistics are definitely heavy assets and very expensive, but without JD's logistics system, JD would not have persisted for long and would have been eliminated, at least not to the level it is today.

In 2012, the well-known "JD vs. Suning" battle on the internet allowed Liu Qiangdong to successfully link dealers and users to the JD platform. Although JD.com has been criticized as an "industry disruptor," this is a strategy that Liu Qiangdong has prepared for a long time. In order to promote JD's development, for users to buy genuine products, and for users to have a better service experience, being scolded a few times is nothing.

In the years of rapid development of the Internet, JD's advantages in self built logistics have been given full play, which has led to the rapid development of JD.

In 2014, JD.com partnered with Tencent to form a strategic partnership.

By leveraging Tencent's traffic advantage, more people have become aware of JD's service model and become JD's users. Since then, JD.com has embarked on a comprehensive expansion and development.

In May 2014, JD.com successfully went public in the United States with a market value exceeding 30 billion US dollars. Liu Qiangdong has become a true leader in e-commerce.

In 2017, the fourth Wuzhen Internet Conference, a group of Internet BOSS gathered in Wuzhen, which can be called the most expensive meal in the world.

Among these entrepreneurs who have created Internet giants, the only difference is that JD has no partners, only Liu Qiangdong.

Tencent has five founders, Ali has 18 Arhat, Baidu has seven swordsmen, Xiaomi has seven joint ventures, Meituan has at least Wang Huiwen.

Only Jingdong, Liu Qiangdong created Jingdong with his own efforts. Steel nerves dominate the board of directors. He is a terrible figure who does not need partners. He may exist in this traditional industry, but is extremely rare in Internet companies.