SegmentFault Co-Founder & CEO Sunny is featured in Forbes China 30-Under-30 2014. Forbes China 30-Under-30 is a tally of the brightest stars in 12 different startup fields under the age of 30.
Sunny, 24, co-founder of SegmentFault. 3 men, 1 year, builidng a community of 100k developers, for an era of developers.
Sunny was borned in 1990. On the winter of 2009, he decided to quit after three months of his college career, and headed for Beijing to join his favourite Internet industry with just 500 CNY. Before, Sunny helped Xiaonei Network (literally "on-campus network", a Chinese social networking service which has been called the Facebook of China and changed its name to Renren Network later) to extend market in Jiangsu high schools. Later he became friends with some Xiaonei's heads, and had been mistaken for a employee of Xiaonei. In Beijing, Sunny joined MagnetJoy Games (a startup of social games) and Tech2IPO (a technology media). Later, he engaged in the startup of AngelCrunch (a platform for angel investment).
On Jun 1st, 2012, with co-founders @joyqi and @fenbox, Sunny run SegmentFault as a start-up. SegmentFault is a leading technology community for Chinese developers. It already has more than 100,000 active developer users!
Remarks from Wang Huai, Forbis China 30-Under-30 judge and former Facebook R&D manager:
China need this kind of young people, running a technical community passionately. They themselves are geeks and evangelists of geek culture. The promotion of geek culture will greatly accelerate the development of Chinese Internet eco-system.
Never before has youth been such an advantage under this disruptive time. Grown up in this digital time, without the pressure and burden of traditional organizations, these young people have the courage to break and rebuild the rules. As the co-founder and CEO of SegmentFault, Sunny will engage in these innovators to change China and to change the world.
Startups of Microsoft Ventures Accelerator in China. Sunny is next to Dr. Zhang Yaqin (Chairman of Microsoft China Research & Development Group), in a green "Hello World" tee.
Sunny shared his views on Chinese developer eco-system with Joe Wilson, Global Director of Microsoft Developer and Platform Group.
Sunny and Baidu VP Li Mingyuan, Baidu Open Cloud Hackathon in Singapore.
SegmentFault Milestones
- 3 man, 1 year, 500k lines of source code, 3000+ commits. In-house PHP framework. A community with Q&A, blog, events and other services. Gathering 100k developers.
- SegmentFault introduced hackathon into China, which gained a lot of recognition. Until now, his team has organized and co-organized 30+ hackathons, covering first line Internet cities of China mainland like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and other areas such as Hong Kong, Taipei, Singapore and Silicon Valley, engaging 2k+ hackers. SegmentFault is now the largest hackathon organizer in China.
- Typecho (an open source blog platform developed by SegmentFault founders) has more than 2 millions downloads and 500k users.
- SegmentFault took the second place in 2013 China New Media Startup Contest.
- SegmentFault is participating in the fourth class of the Microsoft Ventures Accelerator in China.
- SegmentFault received angel investments from Media Dream Works and IDG.
