Basic information of Mo Tianquan.

1964 was born in Guanyang county, Guilin city, Guangxi province;

1984 bachelor degree, graduated from mechanical department of South China University of Technology;

1989 graduated from Tsinghua University Institute of Economics and Management with a master's degree;

1988- 1990 participated in the research group of industrial organization reform in China, the State Council Development Research Center, and won the "Sun Economics Award", the highest prize in China economics;

199 1 went to Indiana university to study for a doctorate in economics and management, and obtained a master's degree in economics.

At the beginning of 1993, he served as the director and general manager of Dow Jones Teleres Asia and China; Later, he served as Executive Vice President of Asian Development and Investment Corporation (ADF).

1996 secretary general of China real estate index system;

1999 With the support of Goldman Sachs, an investment bank, and IDG, an international data group, SouFun Information Co., Ltd. was formally established, and SouFun.com became the largest real estate website in the world.

He is currently the chairman of SouFun Holdings Limited. 1964, a native of Guanyang, Guangxi, was born in Mo Tianquan.

In Guanyang County, the Mohs family is a famous family. In the whole of Guangxi, the influence of the Mohs family is quite great, with as many as 500 thousand Mohs. According to historical research, the earliest written records of the Mohs family can be traced back to ancient times.

Although so many years have passed, Mo Tianquan can still recall his childhood hometown in detail: "My home is in a depression in the local mountainous area, which is very common in Lingnan area. A few hundred meters away from the door is a river. "

After graduating from Chengguan Primary School in Guanyang County, Mo Tianquan came to his hometown in Shaoyang, Hunan Province to study. At that time, Shaoyang was a famous important base for the construction of the "Third Line", which was relatively isolated from the outside world and had a quiet environment. In addition, there is another important reason. His family was a landlord, and his father was worried that it would affect his children's college entrance examination, so he entrusted Mo Tianquan's uncle who was a soldier to move him to Shaoyang, Hunan.

198 1 year, the fifth year after the national college entrance examination system was restored, 17-year-old Mo Tianquan and other 2.58 million candidates appeared in the national college entrance examination room. On this single-plank bridge, which is contested by thousands of troops, the admission ratio is 1: 10. It was from the college entrance examination that Mo Tianquan first felt the value of fierce competition and hard work. A few days later, the result of this life PK competition came out: Mo Tianquan became the third authentic college student of the local Mohist school-one year before the Cultural Revolution, Mo Tianquan's uncle and aunt once occupied two of the three university admission places in Guanyang County. But this time is different. Mo Tianquan was not only admitted to the university, but also won the first place in the college entrance examination of Guanyang County with 198 1, which is a much-told story among the clan members of the Mohs.

South China University of Technology (predecessor of South China University of Technology) major in mechanical manufacturing. This is Mo Tianquan's latest status 198 1 July after receiving the letter of admission. When talking about why he chose science and engineering, Mo Tianquan later said that he was influenced by his uncle. At the same time, the ethos of "learning mathematics and physics well and traveling all over the world" also influenced Mo Tianquan's choice.

During his time in South China University of Technology, Mo Tianquan was the first in the final exam every semester, which made him feel a little bored and wanted to find a breakthrough for himself.

1982, when he was a sophomore, Mo Tianquan submitted an application, which was not an application for joining the Party, nor an application for aiding students, but an application for advanced placement-he hoped to be promoted directly from the second grade to the fourth grade, because all the courses in the third grade had been completed by himself. At that time, it was not easy to get into the university, but it was unheard of and rare to skip a grade in the university, let alone apply voluntarily. Fortunately, after receiving the application, the department leaders all supported his actions. In the 1980s, there was a strong atmosphere to encourage young people to make bold innovations, from the political field to the literary field to the economic field, including personal learning. So the dean took him to see the headmaster of the school. The headmaster simply left a sentence: "You can skip one grade, as long as you can complete all the courses in the second and third grades at the same time, and the score in each course is above 80."

Looking back on that important challenge today, Mo Tianquan thinks that on the one hand, young people are aggressive, and newborn calves are not afraid of tigers; On the other hand, it is also his character. He likes to constantly challenge difficult tasks, and his desire for a sense of accomplishment drives him to complete this seemingly impossible task. The test results left a record for Mo Tianquan to show off: the first student who successfully advanced placement in the history of South China University of Technology.

Three years of college life will soon come to an end. Before 1993, most colleges and universities in China adopted the national distribution system for graduates. It was not until the day before she left school that Mo Tianquan knew her graduation destination: No.5 Institute of Tianjin Machinery Department.

On the day of reporting to the Fifth Institute, the Dean arranged for Mo Tianquan to do environmental protection research.

In 1984, environmental protection is a very advanced topic. At that time, there was an environmental protection department for urban and rural construction in the State Council, but its main function was to carry out construction planning. It was not until 14 that the State Environmental Protection Administration appeared, which shows that environmental protection is unpopular.

After receiving the task, Mo Tianquan and his tutor started the noise research together. Mentors and apprentices often run around with expensive noise measuring instruments and cooperate with relevant departments to detect enterprises and institutions with excessive noise.

1986, Mo Tianquan had been in the Fifth Research Institute of the Ministry of Machinery for two years, but at this time he gave himself a new problem: he resigned to take the postgraduate exam. The reason is simple: if you want to be a leader, and one way to be a leader is to learn management, you must go to graduate school.

For 22-year-old Mo Tianquan, the long way to leave No.370 Hongqi Road, Nankai District, Tianjin, where the Fifth Research Institute of the Ministry of Machinery is located, has just begun.

This time, Mo Tianquan "defected" to Professor Fu Jiaji of Tsinghua University School of Management. Fu Jiaji is one of the early pioneers of domestic technical economy and management disciplines. A few months before the exam, Mo Tianquan began to "chew" books every day, from the first page to the last page, which is no different from the current postgraduate entrance examination mode. If the probability of being admitted to a university was 10% at the beginning, now the proportion has been reduced by 10 times, and 100 people can "survive" 1. Mo Tianquan finally stood out from more than 200 candidates and became one of the two graduate students enrolled by Professor Fu Jiaji 1986.

While studying for a postgraduate degree, Mo Tianquan participated in the industrial policy research of the State Council Development Research Center. In addition, he often published articles in authoritative magazines such as Managing the World and Economics, so that many years later, the editorial director of Managing the World met Mo Tianquan and was deeply impressed: "The people who published articles in Managing the World are well-known experts and scholars, and it is not easy for you to be a student."

1989, Mo Tianquan graduated from graduate school, and the State Council Development Research Center wanted him very much. However, Mo Tianquan has decided to study for a doctorate in management in the United States, because all the top management majors in the world are recognized in the United States. Mo Tianquan hopes to go abroad for further study and improve his academic level in management research. Although GRE and TOEFL scores were not satisfactory, Mo Tianquan was recommended by a German professor he knew in Tsinghua University and published a series of award-winning achievements and articles. The United States still gave him a full scholarship.

While waiting for the notice from an American university, Mo Tianquan went to Pakistan as the chief translator of an aid project. 1990 after receiving the notice from American Pakistan University, Mo Tianquan resigned from his foreign aid work and immediately flew from Beijing to Indiana University to study for a double doctorate in economics and management.

1On February 28th, 990, he left China, where he raised himself for 26 years, for the first time and went to the United States on the other side of the ocean. It was snowy that day, but Mo Tianquan was very excited. In his own words, China and the United States are the two greatest countries on earth-we can finally learn from these two greatest places. Because he practiced bravery in Pakistan, Mo Tianquan didn't contact American friends, so he boarded a flight to Los Angeles with more than 1000 dollars. Mo Tianquan's university is in Indianapolis, the capital of Indiana, and he has to transfer by bus.

During my three years studying in America, I only slept 4-5 hours a day on average. In addition to my studies, I have a job (as a teaching assistant at school). Because of her excellent academic performance, this China international student can get a full scholarship of 1.38 million dollars every year. Mo Tianquan also set up a winery in his hometown of Guangxi in partnership with a wealthy businessman from the Middle East and a professor from Indiana University Law School, and specially recruited two managers by visiting relatives in his hometown. Unfortunately, the winery closed down in less than three months.

At the beginning of 1994, more importantly, Mo Tianquan got to know the boss of Teleres, a subsidiary of Dow Jones, and worked in Teleres. At Teleres, Mo Tianquan starts from the bottom information analyst, and makes a professional evaluation of various indicators of the real estate market every day, so as to predict the trend of the real estate market. From then on, Mo Tianquan began to have a deep understanding of the real estate market, and forged an indissoluble bond with this industry. From 65438 to 0997, the Internet economy in the United States developed rapidly, and Teleres has become the largest real estate information Internet company in the United States. At this time, with excellent work, Mo Tianquan's position has become the general manager of Teleres China Company. 199 1 accepted the invitation of Indiana university in the United States to study for a double doctorate in economic management in the United States.

65438-0993 Joined Dow Jones Telephone Company as Director and General Manager of Dow Jones Telephone Company in Asia and China; Later, he resigned from Dow Jones Teleres and became the executive vice president of ADF, an American Asian development and investment company.

1996 took over the China real estate index system initiated by the State Council Development Center of China Real Estate Association, and served as secretary general.

At the beginning of 1999, with the support of Goldman Sachs, the world's largest investment bank, and IDG, the international data group, SouFun Information Co., Ltd. was formally established and became the largest information technology company related to real estate and housekeeping in Asia.

On July 4th, 2005, 65438+ signed an agreement with the French classified advertising and publishing giant to sell 0/5% equity of SouFun/KLOC-for US$ 220 million.

In 2006, SouFun was divided into several groups, such as Information Group, which was the new housing market; Second-hand housing and rental groups, as well as research groups with research institutes as the core.

In 2007, SouFun was making the most active preparations for listing in the United States. Therefore, Mo Tianquan has also begun to adjust the overall pattern of SouFun, changing the original vertical management into a more flexible and flat company management, so that the organizational structure and operation mode of SouFun are more in line with the requirements of overseas companies' listing.

Mo Tianquan said that real estate is only his starting point. His greatest wish is to be an information consulting agency in China, which is as famous as Dow Jones, McKinsey and Anderson. "All the good opportunities have caught up with us. We should do something for the country and society. " During his time at Dow Jones, the CEO of Teleres was about the same age as the other three executives, forming a circle and being as close as family. Although they are 20 years older than Mo Tianquan, they quickly accepted Mo Tianquan as one of them, and introduced him to famous figures in American financial circles. These influential celebrities on Wall Street also had a positive impact on Mo Tianquan's establishment of SouFun.

"I have learned too much from them. I think it may be my self-confidence, no immigration mentality, and I have no obstacles to integrate into that society. Now, when I return to China, I don't feel any different. The world is flat, and it makes no difference where I go. " Mo Tianquan said. Mo Tianquan founded his own real estate network company in China for the first time, which originated from an ordinary business cooperation. That was 1995. Dow Jones Telecom found Beijing Urban Construction Investment Development Co., Ltd. and launched the China Real Estate Index. This is a quantitative system to measure the development trend of the real estate market. At that time, Professor Li Yining, a famous economist, was still a project consultant. Mo Tianquan participated in the whole process of the project from negotiation to implementation. Although the commercial development of this index system was not successful because the marketization of domestic real estate industry had just begun at that time, some of its commercial ideas had an impact on Mo Tianquan.

During the period of 1999, Mo Tianquan, who had moved to Asia Development and Investment Corporation as the executive vice president, was keenly aware that with the in-depth development of China's market economy and the end of the welfare housing distribution system, China's increasingly commercialized real estate industry ushered in a blowout era, and the market's thirst for real estate information would be a huge business opportunity. 1999, Mo Tianquan rented a three-bedroom apartment in a residential area near Liu Zhuang, Dinghui Temple, Beijing, spent money to buy servers, computers and other equipment and hired managers, and started his entrepreneurial career of building an online real estate empire. The domain name of the website was originally Chinaproperties, and the Chinese name is also called "China Property Network". After careful consideration, Mo Tianquan finally decided to turn to SouFun. Thus, SouFun was born. Any entrepreneurial project can not be separated from huge amounts of money, especially the Internet, a "money-burning" industry.

Initially, through the matchmaking of Li Shan, an alumnus of Tsinghua University School of Management and CEO of Goldman Sachs, Mo Tianquan found several large consortia in Hong Kong, hoping to invest in SouFun. The negotiations were very difficult. At first, the Hong Kong consortium showed some interest in financing projects, but the later, the more difficult the negotiations became, and the harsh conditions put forward by the Hong Kong consortium were totally unacceptable. In the end, the negotiation ended in failure, but Mo Tianquan realized the great value of this project from this negotiation.

In the end, the first fund of SouFun was provided by IDG, an American investment company that first entered the IT venture capital field in China. Compared with the previous hard negotiations, this financing is too dramatic. Mo Tianquan wrote his thoughts on a piece of paper, and then found his classmate Lin Dongliang in IDG. With Mo Tianquan's judgment and firm belief in market expectation, IDG invested $654.38 million in SouFun. Mo Tianquan got his first venture capital. At the beginning of its establishment, Mo Tianquan clearly planned the development direction of SouFun. The initial stage is the media stage of real estate information dissemination, and through continuous expansion, it has developed into a commercial operation platform for the whole real estate industry.

From 2000 to 2005, China real estate industry and Internet industry, as two emerging industries, both experienced the process from germination to development and then to rapid expansion. As the marriage of the two major industries, SouFun, headed by Mo Tianquan, is also actively expanding and growing. Since 2004, the wide application of network technology has changed people's ideas and is promoting the reform of real estate business model. When SouFun was founded, it chose to expand its business in five major cities in China: Hongkong, Taipei, Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing. Now the business of SouFun has expanded to more than 0/00 cities in China. Of course, as a strong regional industry, SouFun, headed by Mo Tianquan, is not without difficulties, but it finally persisted.

Although Mo Tianquan and Zhang Chaoyang worked in the same building at the beginning of their business, SouFun attracted the attention of the industry in 2006. Continuous venture capital through IDG, Goldman Sachs Investment Bank and classified media of French dealers. At the end of August 2006, Telstra, Australia's largest telecommunications and information service company, spent $254 million to acquire 5 1% shares in SouFun. In 2007, SouFun's annual income exceeded 500 million yuan. The main source of profit is advertising revenue, accounting for about 90%. Advertising revenue mainly comes from real estate developers and housing agents.

With the expansion of business, advertising revenue will also involve other industries, such as home decoration and community service. On the listing, Mo Tianquan said that SouFun. Com is "everything is ready, except the east wind" He believes that listing is a sign of the company's maturity, and it can also dilute personal color as much as possible.

Mo Tianquan is full of confidence in the future: "Now 300 million rural people have become urban people. When they come to the city, they need jobs and houses, which is equivalent to building an' America' in 20 years and another' America' in the next 20 years. "