WORLD RICHEST INDIVIDUAL-Ma Huateng

  • Ma Huateng, also known as Pony Ma, is the chairman and CEO of Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings.
  • Tencent’s popular social messaging app WeChat has nearly 1.4 billion monthly users.
  • Known at home for mobile games such as battle game Honor of Kings, Tencent is also one of the largest videogame publishers globally and has acquired a stake in U.S. videogame company Epic Games.
  • It has also invested in electric car maker Tesla and music-streaming service Spotify, which in turn has a stake in its Tencent Music.
  • Ma led research and development of Internet paging system development at China Motion Telecom Development before starting Tencent in 1998.
  • Being one of “Fortune world’s greatest leaders”,[11] Ma is known for his low profile personality as compared to fellow Chinese businessman and Alibaba founder Jack Ma‘s outgoing personality.
  • Ma’s first job was with China Motion Telecom Development, a supplier of telecommunications services and products, where he was in charge of developing software for pagers. He reportedly earned $176 per month. He also worked for Shenzhen Runxun Communications Co. Ltd.

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