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Who was the first founder of bike sharing?

Ofo bike-sharing, founded on 20 14, is the first bicycle sharing company in China. It is the first bicycle sharing mode without piles, which is dedicated to solving the travel problem on university campus. And the founder of this little yellow car is a young man-Dai Wei.

It is understood that Dai Wei entered the Finance Department of Guanghua School of Management of Peking University as an undergraduate in 2009. The first club to join Peking University was Peking University Bicycle Association, and he fell in love with cycling since then. 20 13 chose to teach mathematics in Dongxia Town, Datong County, Qinghai Province. 20 14 went back to Peking university to study for a master's degree. At this time, he has become a serious cyclist. He began to want to do things in the field of cycling, so he chose to create ofo cycling with four partners, a deeply customized cycling tourism project. Soon they got an investment of 6,543,800 yuan, but it didn't take long for them to get 6,543,800 yuan. At that time, only 400 yuan was left, and employees' salaries were coming out soon. When he went to find financing, others could not see the project of ofo riding. Soon after, I turned to the concept of ofo*** to enjoy cycling and solve the last mile travel problem. 20 16 1 month, they got a round of investment from Jinshajiang Venture Capital:100000 yuan. Later, it became a hot project with capital, and financing news broke out frequently.

On September 26, 20 16, Didi Travel invested tens of millions of dollars and enjoyed the bicycle platform ofo;; On February 8, 65438, ofo held a city strategy conference in Guangzhou, announcing its official landing in Guangzhou, establishing strategic cooperation with Haizhu District Government, and connecting 60,000 bicycles in 20 16; On February 23rd, 65438, the bicycle platform ofo announced the trial operation of urban services in Silicon Valley and London.

20 17- 1, ofo bike-sharing is applied in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Tianjin and Chongqing. In March, ofo*** began to use bicycles in Lanzhou; On April 27, ofo officially accessed Didi Chuxing; On May 3rd, ofo officially entered the100th city of Lhasa.

On May 20 1717, ofo announced that it would change its brand name to "ofo bike-sharing".

The success of ofo bike-sharing made many investors turn their attention to the new business opportunity of * * * enjoying bicycles, and many bicycle products (mobike, Hello) also appeared one after another. * * * The emergence of enjoying bicycles has brought a lot of convenience to everyone's life. I hope more convenient products will appear and more entrepreneurs will succeed!