"Mr. Lu, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting."
Approaching half-past two, a slightly overweight man wearing glasses hastened towards Lu Liang, who was sitting by the window.
Cheng Wei was born in '83, 34 years old this year, and after graduating, he joined Ali's Alipay department. After working there for seven years, he resigned to start Xiaoju Technology, known today as DiDi.
Since he and Byte's Zhang Yiming were born in the same year and both started businesses in Beijing, before 2014, the media was fiercely debating who was the leading entrepreneur born in the '80s.
But after May 2014, when DiDi accepted 50 million dollars in funding from Goldman Sachs, and in July of the same year, Liu Qing suddenly joined DiDi as the Chief Operating Officer.
Since then, the debate over who was the leading entrepreneur of the '80s seemed to have concluded.
It was as if Cheng Wei had vanished, still physically present, yet seemingly without any difference to being absent.
