Colin Zheng Huang

$35.71B

as of 11/02/23

About Colin Zheng Huang

Colin Zheng Huang is the founder of PDD Holdings, the Chinese e-commerce company that changed its name from Pinduoduo in February 2023.

Huang, who stepped down as chairman of the company in March 2021, is still a major shareholder of PDD.

PDD launched budget shopping site Temu in September 2022 to compete with Shein, led by fellow Chinese billionaire Sky Xu.

A serial entrepreneur, Huang earlier founded online games company Xinyoudi and e-commerce platform Ouku.com.

Huang, who has a master's in computer science from U. of Wisconsin, interned at Microsoft in both Beijing and Seattle before starting his career at Google in the U.S. in 2004.

Personal stats

Citizenship

People's Republic of China

Source of wealth

E-commerce

Residence

Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Birth date

02/02/80 (age 44)

Education

Master, University of Wisconsin Madison; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Zhejiang University

Self-made

self-made