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Who is Ma Huateng, Tencent CEO who dethroned Jack Ma as China's richest?
short by Pragya Swastik / on Friday, 26 June, 2020
Ma Huateng, the 48-year-old Co-founder and CEO of Chinese conglomerate Tencent, dethroned Alibaba Co-founder Jack Ma as China's richest person with $50 billion net worth. Huateng, also known as Pony Ma, studied computer science at Shenzhen University and Co-founded Tencent in 1998. He became China's richest in 2014 but Jack Ma overtook him after Alibaba went public in the US.