Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang is an American billionaire computer programmer,internet entrepreneur,and venture capitalist. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc. and founding partner of AME Cloud Ventures.
Amazon China,formerly known as Joyo.com,is an online shopping website. Joyo.com was founded in early 2000 by the Chinese entrepreneur Lei Jun in Beijing,China. The company primarily sold books and other media goods,shipping to customers nationwide. Joyo.com was renamed to “Amazon China”when sold to Amazon Inc in 2004 for US$75 Million. Amazon China closed its domestic business in China in June 2019,offering only products from sellers located overseas.
Kingsoft Corporation is a Chinese software company based in Beijing. Kingsoft operates four subsidiaries:Seasun for video game development,Cheetah Mobile for mobile internet apps,Kingsoft Cloud for cloud storage platforms,and Kingsoft Office Software for office software,including WPS Office. It also produced security software known as Kingsoft Security. The most popular game developed by Kingsoft is JX Online 3,launched in 2009.
Ma Huateng is a Chinese businessman,investor and philanthropist who is the co-founder,chairperson and chief executive officer (CEO) of Tencent,one of the most valuable companies in East Asia,one of the largest internet and technology companies,and one of the biggest investment,gaming,and entertainment conglomerates in the world. The company in Shenzhen develops China's biggest mobile instant messaging service,WeChat,and its subsidiaries provide media,entertainment,payment systems,smartphones,internet-related services,value-added services and online advertising services,both in China and globally.
Ding Lei is a Chinese billionaire businessman,and the founder and CEO of NetEase.
The Global Mobile Internet Conference is hosted annually in Beijing and Silicon Valley. Mobile executives,entrepreneurs,developers,and investors from around the globe and across platforms attend GMIC each year.
Xiaomi Corporation,commonly known as Xiaomi,is a Chinese designer and manufacturer of consumer electronics and related software,home appliances,automobiles and household hardware,with headquarters in Beijing,China. It is the second-largest manufacturer of smartphones in the world,behind Samsung,most of which run on the MIUI operating system. The company is ranked 338th and is the youngest company on the Fortune Global 500.
Liu Qiangdong (Richard) (Chinese:刘强东;born March 10,1973) is a Chinese Internet entrepreneur. Liu founded JD Multimedia as a business-to-consumer single retail store for magneto-optical products in June 1998 and later moved the company into an e-commerce website known as JD.com (also known as Jingdong) in 2013.
Peng Lei,also known as Lucy Peng,is a Chinese billionaire businesswoman. She is one of the founders of the e-commerce company Alibaba Group. As of March 2017,Peng was one of 21 self-made women billionaires in China.
Hugo Barra is a Brazilian computer scientist,technology executive and entrepreneur. From 2008 to 2013,he worked in a number of product management roles at Google,including vice president and product spokesperson of its Android division. From 2013 to 2017,he worked at Xiaomi as vice president of global operations. From 2017 to 2021,he worked as vice president of Virtual Reality and head of the Oculus division at Meta Platforms. In May 2021,he left Meta to join health technology startup Detect as CEO.
Hui Ka Yan is a Chinese former billionaire businessman. He is the chairman of the board and Communist Party secretary of the Evergrande Group,a Chinese real estate developer. The Guangzhou-based company was China's biggest property developer in 2016,based on sales volume;revenue was 211.4 billion yuan. In 2017,Evergrande Real Estate Group achieved sales of RMB 450 billion. As of December 2021 Hui was the largest shareholder of Evergrande Group,holding nearly 60 percent of stock. In September 2023,Hui was arrested and under investigation for suspected illegal activity.
Lin Bin is a Chinese billionaire entrepreneur,co-founder and vice chairman of Xiaomi.
Colin Huang Zheng is a Chinese businessman,investor,and philanthropist. He is the founder and former CEO of the e-commerce company Pinduoduo,which is now the largest agriculture platform in China. Huang is also the owner of at least three other limited liability Cayman companies,including Pinduoduo.
Zhang Yeming is a Chinese Internet entrepreneur. He founded ByteDance in 2012,developed the news aggregator Toutiao and the video sharing platform Douyin. Zhang is one of the richest individuals in the world,with an estimated net worth of US$45.6 billion as of October 2024,according to Forbes and US$43.1 billion according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index. On November 4,2021,Zhang stepped down as CEO of ByteDance,completing a leadership handover announced in May 2021. According to Reuters,Zhang maintains over 50 percent of ByteDance's voting rights. The surging global popularity of TikTok made Zhang the richest man in China in 2024.
Eric S Yuan is a Chinese-American billionaire businessman,engineer,and the chief executive officer and founder of Zoom Video Communications,of which he owns 22%.
Tony Xu is a Chinese American billionaire businessman and the co-founder and CEO of DoorDash. Xu was born in Nanjing and immigrated to the United States with his parents at the age of four. He earned degrees from the University of California,Berkeley and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Early in his career,Xu interned at Square,Inc.,and worked for McKinsey &Company,eBay,and PayPal. He was included in Fortune's 40 Under 40 in 2020.
Shunwei Capital is a Beijing-based venture capital firm founded in 2011. It was founded by Lei Jun and Tuck Lye Koh. The firm focuses on investing in the technology sector in China as well as other countries such as India and Indonesia. According to South China Morning Post,from January 2019 to May 2020,it was the ninth most active venture capital firm in China.
Li Xiting is a Chinese-born Singaporean billionaire business magnate. He is the co-founder,president and co-CEO of Mindray,China's largest medical equipment manufacturer.
Xiaomi Auto is a Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer headquartered in Beijing;it is a subsidiary of Chinese consumer electronics company Xiaomi.
Kingsoft Office Software is a publicly listed Chinese software company. Its most notable product is the office suite,WPS Office.
