Tao Ran graduated from Nanjing Audit University and China Renmin University, and joined Alibaba Group in 2004. He has served as manager, director and vice president of public and customer communication department. Before joining Alibaba, Tao Ran worked in institutions such as Jiaotong University Mingtai, China Entrepreneur Magazine and Tom Online.

20 15, 1, Tao Ran joined Kuaidi Taxi, and then after the merger of Didi Kuaidi in February of that year, Tao Ran joined Didi as the senior vice president in charge of public relations affairs.

On May 2, according to the internal announcement of Didi Travel, Tao Ran, the senior vice president of the company, will leave in June for personal reasons, and Didi will invite him to be the external senior consultant of the company.

Tao Ran then issued a resignation statement in a circle of friends, saying that Didi was the second company he met that could really affect everyone's life (the first one was Taobao), and outsiders might not fully understand how fast Didi developed. "People always think things clearly at some key nodes. I celebrated my 39th birthday this year. When I was 40 years old, I took time to think about it, which was a little sigh. I think it may be time to reset myself. On the other hand, I need to reconsider planning a lot of things. "