戴威 / Dai Wei

Overview

戴威 / Dai Wei is the OFO founder figure in the episode’s shared-bike boom and deposit-crisis account.

Current Profile

The source presents Dai as a Peking University graduate whose early cycling-tourism idea became OFO after a campus-bike sharing pivot. His profile is shaped by the move from a low-cost, high-frequency campus model to a city-scale capital war in which OFO had to manage cheap hardware, weak locks, subsidies, strategic investors, SoftBank targets, Didi involvement, and merger pressure.

The episode’s final view is tragic rather than simply celebratory. Dai’s insistence on independent control appears in the failed Didi alignment and failed Mobike merger, while the later deposit-refund crisis makes OFO a central case in Shared-Bike Capital War and O2O Platform Economics.

Key Characteristics

• He is the founder associated with OFO’s campus-to-city shared-bike pivot.
• His early model relied on low-cost bikes, high campus frequency, and fast payback assumptions.
• His later company faced mechanical-lock abuse, subsidy burn, order-volume pressure, and strategic-investor conflict.
• He resisted arrangements that would have reduced founder control through Didi involvement or a Mobike merger.
• The source links his aftermath to OFO’s unresolved deposit memory and later presence in the United States.

Evidence

• Founder origin - No.218 O2O 与共享经济：属于单车、充电宝、上门美甲和按摩的魔幻撒钱年代 says Dai was born in 1991, graduated from Peking University Guanghua, and had taught in Qinghai.
• Campus pivot - No.218 O2O 与共享经济：属于单车、充电宝、上门美甲和按摩的魔幻撒钱年代 describes OFO’s 2015 Peking University launch using contributed yellow bikes, numbering, and mechanical locks.
• Control conflict - No.218 O2O 与共享经济：属于单车、充电宝、上门美甲和按摩的魔幻撒钱年代 recounts Didi executives entering and then being pushed out, and later merger proposals Dai did not accept.
• Crisis ending - No.218 O2O 与共享经济：属于单车、充电宝、上门美甲和按摩的魔幻撒钱年代 uses refund queues and late self-rescue attempts to frame the OFO aftermath.

Qualifications

The page follows this episode’s narrative and does not independently adjudicate Dai’s responsibility, legal status, or all later business activity.

What Changed

• Added Dai Wei as the founder-control and OFO deposit-crisis node in the shared-bike capital war.

Relationships

• OFO - company Dai founded.
• 朱啸虎 / Zhu Xiaohu - early investor and public defender of OFO’s model.
• Didi - strategic investor and operating counterparty in the episode’s account.
• Mobike / 摩拜 - proposed merger counterpart and core rival.
• Shared-Bike Capital War - competitive setting that defines Dai’s source role.