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Founder
  
Victor Koo

Headquarters
  
Beijing, China

Founded
  
2005

Parent organization
  
Alibaba Group

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Subsidiaries
  
Heyi Pictures, Trade Lead Investments Limited

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Youku Tudou (Chinese: 优酷土豆) is the result of the 2012 merger of Chinese internet sites Youku and Tudou, creating one of China's biggest video sites. Prior to the announcement of the merger, Youku was the #11 website in China, and Tudou was #14. The chairman of the board is Victor Koo, the founder of Youku. The company had a stock listed on the NYSE, YOKU before being acquired by Alibaba Group on 6 November 2015. In December 2016 it reported it had 30 million subscribers.

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Youku Tudou Wikipedia