Douban is a community website. This website was founded by Bai Yang (net name "Abei") on March 6th, 2005. This website started with books and videos, providing information about books, movies, music and other works. Descriptions and comments are user-generated content (UGC), which is a distinctive website in Web2.0 websites. The website also provides a variety of service functions such as book audio and video recommendation, offline activities in the same city, and group topic exchange. It is more like an innovative network service that integrates taste system (reading, movies and music), expression system (reading, watching and listening) and communication system (city, group and neighbors), and has been committed to helping urban people discover useful things in life.
Bai Yang, founder and CEO of Douban. Com, a native of Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province, graduated from Tsinghua University and received a doctorate in physics from the University of California, San Diego. He joined IBM as a consultant scientist in 1998, working on the calculation model of the next generation magnetic recording equipment. From 2000 to 2004, he participated in the establishment of Egistics, a supply chain management solution startup, and served as the chief technology officer. In 2005, we began to build watercress.