Ma Huateng

Chairman and CEO, Tencent Holdings

$39.84B

as of 06/30/24

About Ma Huateng

Ma Huateng (also known as Pony Ma) chairs Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings.

Tencent's popular social messaging app WeChat has 1.3 billion users.

Tencent, which owns a stake in U.S. videogame company Epic Games, is one of the largest videogame publishers in the world.

It has stakes in electric car maker Tesla and music-streaming service Spotify, which in turn has a stake in its Tencent Music.

Ma led research and development of Internet paging system development at China Motion Telecom Development before starting Tencent in 1998.

Personal stats

Citizenship

People's Republic of China

Source of wealth

Online games

Residence

Shenzhen, People's Republic of China

Marital status

Married

Birth date

10/29/71 (age 52)

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, Shenzhen University

Self-made

self-made

Ma Huateng’s fortune is worth

664K

troy ounces of gold

613K

median U.S. household

398K

median U.S. income

0.797%

U.S. credit card volume

0.159%

GDP of the United States

0.117%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

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