Founder
Douban is founded by Ph.D Bo Yang. Dr. Yang had majored in Physics in Tsinghua University before he attended University of California at San Diego as a PhD student. After having received his Ph.D in computational physics, he worked as a research scientist at IBM. Later, he returned to China, becoming the CTO of a software company founded by one of his friends. In 2005, Dr. Yang started to create a web 2.0 site for travelling, named Luzong (驴宗), initially a one man project at a Starbucks in Beijing. In a couple of months, however, the site was transformed to what is now known as Douban.com.
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