William Ding: Know the CEO and founder of NetEase

William started his career by working as an engineer in a local state department in Ningbo. Later, he joined Sybase and started to work there. After some time, on June 1997, Lei founded NetEase which started to grow wider. The NetEase’s official website address in 163.com.

Ding Lei popular known as William Ding is the CEO and founder of NetEase a Chinese internet technology company. NetEase is one of the world's largest online and mobile games developing and operating company. The company was founded in the year 1997 by Ding Lei. As of March 2023, Ding Lei has $ 26.7 billion net worth, according to Forbes.

William started his career by working as an engineer in a local state department in Ningbo. Later, he joined Sybase and started to work there. After some time, on June 1997, Lei founded NetEase which started to grow wider. The NetEase’s official website address in 163.com. With the efforts and hard work of William, the company started to develop and in the year 2003, he was named as the richest individual of the Chinese mainland besides being named as China’s 1st internet and gaming billionaire.

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In the year 2012, the company’s official English name was changed from NetEase.com, Inc to NetEase, Inc. in the year 2017 it was the largest provider of free e-mail services in China. NetEase operates news website at news.163.com. The company also develops and operates online PC and mobile games, advertising services, email services, and e-commerce platforms in China. NetEase has video games named as he Westward Journey series, Tianxia III, Heroes of Tang Dynasty Zero, Ghost II, Nostos, Onmyoji and many more. The company also has its own music-streaming service known as NetEase Music. 

Ding Lei was born on 1st October, 1971 in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China. After completing his schooling, Lei want to Chengdu Institute of Radio Engineering, Currently known as University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and earned Bachelor’s degree in communication technology. Ding Lei got married to Wang Xunfang and they have three children. 

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