Report: Liang Wenfeng seeks a CFO, hopes for someone born in the 1990s.

On September 14, Phoenix Technology learned from multiple independent sources that DeepSeek's CFO is about to take office, and the candidate closest to the final choice is Yan Wentao, a partner at Hillhouse Venture Capital, who is currently going through the resignation process. Another source said that heads of several leading domestic investment institutions, including 5Y Capital, Sequoia Capital, and Longzhu Capital, have also communicated with Liang Wenfeng about the position. But this contest over a core executive seat has always remained mysterious. A number of industry insiders believe that the job application is not the real purpose, and that using the opportunity to communicate and engage, or even to learn about potential investment opportunities, is the real one. Separately, according to people close to DeepSeek, Liang Wenfeng hopes that the CFO will be a post-90s candidate. The lesson about talent is also right in front of them. Over the past year, DeepSeek has almost become a Whampoa Military Academy for big companies poaching people: core researcher Luo Fuli was poached by Xiaomi with a rumored annual salary of ten million yuan, Guo Daya, a core contributor to V3 and R1, went to ByteDance Seed, and Wang Bingxuan, a core author of the first-generation large language model, joined Tencent Hunyuan. Liang Wenfeng himself admitted that DeepSeek's biggest risk is team stability. "As long as I can maintain the team's stability, I will definitely be able to build AGI."