By the end of 2016, Baidu needed a turnaround. It needed new leadership with a vision for streamlining its technology into a bold strategy. Li was convinced it needed his old friend Qi Lu.
Among engineers, Qi Lu is a star—so much so that, like Madonna, he’s known in the field by his first name: Qi. He’s a computer scientist with a sharp intellects whose career experience maps directly to the birth and evolution of the internet. At Microsoft, he was, among other things, CEO Satya Nadella’s top deputy…
With more than 40 patents and a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon, Qi has spent several decades working on search-related technology, starting in the late 90s at Yahoo. He met Robin Li 20 years ago, when they were both working in the Valley.
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