Ma Huateng (southern province of Guangdong, 1971) is the symbol of business success in the technology sector of China. This entrepreneur is the creator of an empire through an Internet messaging service (QQ), using more than 800 million people. It is the Chinese Mark Zuckerberg and the second richest man in China, according to a recent list published by Bloomberg, which puts his fortune at $ 12.100 billion (8,900 million euros). Its heritage comes from the 10% stake it owns the technology giant Tencent Holdings, the largest Internet company in Asia.
Ma, recently married, has a reserved and has remained rare appearances in public, according to the Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post. Controls the company, whose image is a penguin with a red scarf, through society Advance Data Services Limited, belonging to a based in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) business network, according to Bloomberg. In May 2007, Ma is a company Tch PI Limited, located in this territory Offshore, which is named director, as recorded in the database Portcullis Trustnet, a signature of agency of the Virgin Islands, the seen by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ is its acronym in English).
Ma is known under the name of Pony Ma for the English translation of his family name (horse, horse), which comes from the island of Hainan, south-east of the country. As a teenager his father moved to Shenzhen to work as manager of the port. He went to college in Shenzhen, where he graduated in computer engineering in 1993. Shortly after he started working in the department of research and development of China Motion Telecom Development, a provider of local Internet services with a salary that did not reach the $ 200 monthly. He soon found Tencent with a friend from college, Zhang Zhidong, director of technology development company Penguin, with only $ 120,000. Zhang also listed in the database of Portcullis Trustnet, which has had access ICIJ as director of PI Tch Limited, based in the Virgin Islands society.
After the first few difficult years, the success of Ma was offered for free download messaging program he created. QQ soon became an Internet giant and went public in 2004. Since then, shares of the company have increased. Ma Huateng has always argued that Internet users want to customize their profiles. Under that premise has developed applications for instant messaging Tencent (QQ), or social networks like WeChat Weibo, the Chinese Twitter, which sponsors the footballer Lionel Messi to be the image of the company. It has also developed other applications to market games and mobile Internet services.
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