Ma Huateng

January 5, 2024
Entrepreneur

Quick Facts

Ma Huateng
Full Name Ma Huateng
Occupation Entrepreneur
Date Of Birth Oct 29, 1971(1971-10-29)
Age 53
Birthplace Chaoyang
Country China
Birth City Guangdong
Horoscope Libra

Ma Huateng Biography

Name Ma Huateng
Birthday Oct 29
Birth Year 1971
Place Of Birth Chaoyang
Home Town Guangdong
Birth Country China
Birth Sign Libra
Parents Ma Chenshu, Huang Huiqing
Children(s) Ma Manlin

Ma Huateng is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on October 29, 1971 in Chaoyang, Guangdong, China. Chinese entrepreneur, Pony Ma, who is well-known for founding Tencent Holdings Limited in China. This was a major Chinese internet investment company.

Both he and YouTube founder He and YouTube founder Steve Chen both became successful Chinese internet entrepreneurs. became successful Chinese internet entrepreneurs.

Ma was born in Chaoyang, Shantou, China. When his father, Ma Chenshu, got a job as a port manager in Shenzhen, the young Ma accompanied him. He was enrolled in Shenzhen University in 1989 and then graduated in 1993 with a Bachelor of Science in computer science.

After AOL (America Online) bought ICQ in 1998, the company filed an arbitration against Tencent with the National Arbitration Forum in the United States, claiming that OICQ’s domain names OICQ.com and OICQ.net were in violation of ICQ’s trademark. Tencent lost the case and had to relinquish the domain names. In December 2000, Ma changed the name of the software to QQ (with “Q” and “QQ” used to stand for the word “cute”).

He was born in China’s Guangdong Province and raised there.

Ma Huateng Net Worth

Net Worth $54 Billion
Source Of Income Entrepreneur
House Living in own house.

Ma Huateng is one of the richest Entrepreneur from China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ma Huateng 's net worth $54 Billion. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He graduated from Shenzhen University and founded Tencent.

Time magazine named him one the “World’s Most Influential Persons” in 2007. He was among the top two hundred wealthiest people on the planet by 2013.

Ma Huateng (Chinese: 马化腾 ; pinyin: Mǎ Huàténg , born on October 29, 1971), also known as Pony Ma, is a Chinese business magnate, investor, politician, and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Tencent, Asia’s most valuable company, one of the largest Internet and technology companies, and the biggest investment, gaming and entertainment conglomerates in the world. The company controls China’s biggest mobile instant messaging service and its subsidiaries provide media, entertainment, payment systems, smartphones, internet-related services, value-added services and online advertising services, both in China and globally.

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Who is Ma Huateng Dating?

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At Ma’s behest, Tencent launched in 2005 the C2C platform Paipai.com, a direct competitor to e-ecommerce giant Alibaba.

Facts & Trivia

Ma Ranked on the list of most popular Entrepreneur. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in China. Ma Huateng celebrates birthday on October 29 of every year.

Talking about the founding of Tencent, he told China Daily in a 2009 interview that “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants,” paraphrasing a quote attributed to Isaac Newton and referencing the similarities between ICQ and OICQ. “We knew our product had a future, but at that time we just couldn’t afford it,” Ma remembered. In order to solve the problem, Ma asked for bank loans and even talked about selling the company.

What did Ma Huateng do?

Ma Huateng, (born October 29, 1971, Chaoyang, Guangdong province, China), Chinese business executive who was cofounder and CEO (1998– ) of Tencent Holdings Ltd. , one of the world’s largest Internet companies.

Who is Tencent CEO?

Tencent Holdings founder, chairman and chief executive Pony Ma Huateng has sparked fresh online discussion about economic difficulties under Beijing’s dynamic zero-Covid-19 policy, following his endorsement on Saturday of a viral article that touched on the Chinese technology industry’s current struggles.

Who is the youngest CEO in China?

The United States leads the pack with over 735 billionaires, including tech giants Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. The country is closely followed by China, which has 607 of its own, including the youngest billionaire in all of Asia, Wang Zelong , who is just 25 years old. So who is he and where does his wealth come from?

What is Tony Zhang worth?

According to Forbes, Zhang Zhidong has a net worth of $24.1 billion , as of March 2021.

How Rich is Ma Huateng?

As of January 2021, Ma is worth $46.8 billion which places him at the thirty-first spot on the Forbes Real Times Billionaires List. According to Bloomberg, most of Ma’s wealth comes from a 7.4% stake in Tencent—one of the most valuable companies in Asia with a market value of over $561 billion.

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