Youku

[citation needed] On 12 March 2012, Youku reached an agreement to merger with Tudou in a stock-for-stock transaction, the new entity being named Youku Tudou Inc.[7] In 2014, it had more than 500 million monthly active users, with 800 million daily video views.

[9] Youku was founded by Victor Koo (Gu Yongqiang),[10][11] former President of Chinese Internet portal Sohu.

[15] Later that year, Youku became the sole online video provider embedded in the China Edition of Mozilla Firefox.

The stock closed at $33.44 on its first day of trading giving the company a market capitalization of approximately $3.3 billion.

Victor Koo was once an employee of Bain & Company, one of the most prominent management consulting firms in the world.

[18] In December 2018, the company announced a layoff of the president of the unit Yang Weidong due to his assistance to the police in investigation about the case of seeking economic benefits.

Mickey Huang and Zhou Yo at Golden Bell Awards 50th Anniversary Exhibition