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Jason Yin
Jason Yin (Yin Jiankun) is the founder and CEO of uhomes.com (formerly Uhouzz), a global online marketplace for international student accommodation. After more than a decade teaching and leading at New Oriental Education & Technology Group, he launched the platform in March 2015 to help students studying overseas find, tour and book housing. Today uhomes.com lists more than two million beds across 500-plus cities and roughly 2,000 universities, operates from around 16 global offices, and carries a 4.9-star Trustpilot rating, positioning itself as one of the largest student housing booking platforms in the world.
Liulishuo
Liulishuo (LAIX Inc.) is a Shanghai-based educational technology company that uses artificial intelligence to teach English. Its flagship app, 'English Liulishuo' (known internationally as LingoChamp), pairs proprietary speech-recognition and deep-learning models with an adaptive curriculum to act as a personal 'AI English Teacher.' Founded in 2012 by three engineers with Google and academic backgrounds, the company grew to tens of millions of registered users and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2018.
VIPKid
VIPKid is an online education platform that pairs young learners with native English-speaking teachers for live, one-on-one video classes. Founded in Beijing in 2013 by Cindy Mi, it grew into one of the world's largest live-tutoring marketplaces before pivoting to international markets after China's 2021 'double reduction' policy reshaped private tutoring.