Baidu’s founder was asked at an American graduate-school interview whether China had computers.
Robin Li’s high school had five Apple II computers for 1,800 pupils. Applying for a computer-graphics graduate program in the United States in 1992, he was asked by the interviewing professor, “Do you have computers in China?” In January 2000 he founded Baidu in a hotel room, and in December 2007 it became the first Chinese company in the Nasdaq-100.
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