Ski goddess Gu Ailing won her first gold medal at the Winter Olympics today, and her popularity instantly dominated the screen. Regarding her origins, her mother Gu Yan appeared more in various reports, but her father has been hidden in the shadows, and no public report has indicated who his father is, only that he is a high-achieving student at Harvard University. However, as Gu Ailing's popularity at the Winter Olympics grew, some signs began to show.
On Feb. 5, a man named Ray Sidney updated his profile picture on Facebook with him holding a little girl. His friend left a message in the back, "Who could have predicted that this (little girl) would be a future superstar?" "Isn't this Ailing?" "She's a ski machine"... A friend's message almost revealed the truth, "Isn't that the girl in your family, who has now become a ski celebrity and cross-cultural ambassador", and a friend named "Lisa Yin" left a message today, "Congratulations to Ailing for winning the gold medal". Because Facebook's Mechanism is similar to WeChat, the people who can leave a message for someone are his acquaintances or friends.
So, what is the identity of this Ray Sidney? As you can see from his Facebook profile, he studied math at Harvard University, worked as a software engineer at Google, and owns a company called Big George Ventures. So what is this Ray Sidney's credentials at Google? The American magazine Vanity Fair reported in 2018 that Ray Sidney was a former entrepreneurial employee of Google, ranked fifth, and became a real estate developer after leaving Google, owning real estate development company Big George Ventures.
Gu Ailing had previously said in an interview with the media, "When other children cried because of timidity, I rolled over and slid down the hillside. When I was 4 years old, I was able to glide through the powder snow among the woods with my mom and her friend Ray Sidney. It can be seen that Ray Sidney played an important role in Gu Ailing's skiing enlightenment.
Upstream journalist Liao Ping