On April 2, Forbes magazine released the 'the Midas list' in 2019. So which senior entrepreneurs in China are on the list? Shen NANPENG, founder and executive partner of Sequoia Capital China fund, won the title of 'the first venture capitalist in the world'.
In the evaluation of Shen NANPENG, Forbes wrote: "almost no one is more qualified to enjoy the reputation of" golden touch "than Shen NANPENG. He is an important investor behind China's leading technology enterprises such as Alibaba, Jingdong and pinduoduo. '
According to public information, Shen NANPENG graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1989 and obtained a master's degree from Yale in 1992. Before joining Sequoia, he worked for Deutsche Bank Hong Kong, Lehman Brothers Asia and Citibank. He was also the co-founder of Ctrip. With the successful listing of paipai loan in November 2017, Sequoia China, as the earliest and largest institutional investor of the company, has made a lot of profits, and Shen NANPENG has also successfully won the Forbes 2018 'world's best venture capitalist' list.
Before that, Shen NANPENG has always been the top Chinese venture capitalist on the list; when he reached the top of the list in 2018, he broke the best record of Chinese investors created and maintained by him, and became the first Chinese venture investor in the world to receive this honor, which is a milestone.
Not only Shen NANPENG himself, Sequoia also became the biggest winner of this year's list. According to Forbes, there are 21 Chinese on this year's list, a record high, while Sequoia Capital has the largest number of investors on the list with 10 people.
There are also three Chinese investors in the top ten of the list. Among them, Gan Jianping, the managing partner of Qiming venture capital, ranked fifth by virtue of the successful listing of three invested enterprises, namely station B, meituan Dianping and mushroom street. Today, Xu Xin, the managing partner of capital, and Tong Shihao, the managing partner of Jiyuan capital, followed closely, ranking sixth and seventh respectively.
Since 2001, Forbes has selected 100 top venture capitalists every year. They are of great value in early detection and investment of high potential technology enterprises and helping them grow. Forbes' list of the world's best venture capitalists is also known as the "Oscar" for its professionalism, authority and preciseness.