Rose Gong: 'China's number one matchmaker'
Serial
entrepreneur Rose Gong has been talking about how she was inspired to
create what is now China's biggest online dating site after being
disappointed by her own online search for love in 2003.
"I wasn't young
compared to the average marriage age in China," she recalls, "so my mum
kept calling and urging me to go meet a boyfriend. I felt under pressure
and signed up on several different online matchmaking websites."
Ms
Gong had a bad experience and decided to launch her own site, Jiayuan -
it prospered and now employs hundreds of people and is listed on the
Nasdaq stock exchange.
Ms Gong has now launched another business,
91Waijiao, which aims to connect English language teachers through the
internet to students in China.