The Rise of China’s Tencent Billionaire

Pony Ma is one of the richest people on the planet. He created Tencent, China's tech colossus and one of the ten largest companies in the world. But few signs in his early years suggest that he would become such a success.

Video by Vicky Feng and Lulu Chen

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[lixwh]

When you talk business, they talk politics; when you talk politics, they talk business~ You win in either way, Bloomberg.

[JOELJOSEPHCHALAKUDY]

it's funny that WhatsApp was copied from WeChat

[kongwee]

As if like Apple, Alphabets, Microsofts, Facebook, Twitter, not send your data to NSA. :)

[khvtri]

Should have talked about the gaming aspect as well with Epic! League of Legends, Fortnite!

[marcxie]

'Pony' was more like a nickname for him in his early days. I believe he now refers himself as Ma Huateng, direct translation from his Chinese name

[CaptainPlanet]

Commy Party: I’ll help you grow by blocking these US tech companies here in China.

Pony Ma: ok, in return I’ll give you access to our data base.

Commy Party: DEAL! 👍🏼

[sixact]

He failed many years many times but the result is satisfying

[soranibrahim]

Tencent has already earned a lot from the western market, they invested in many companies such as Ubisoft and Activision Blizzard. Tencent is also the owner of Riot and Epic Games, which means the famous esports game LOL and the new hot one Fortnite all belong to this penguin.
Before the Wechat changed the game, Tencent was fed with online game business, there were 300 million players of their FPS game CF, and many million players of DNF, these 2 games still making billions of RMB a year after 10 years since they came out in Korea and bought by Tencent.
Now it's making a game platform called WeGame which is aiming at PC game markets ruled by Steam, in fact, I just bought the PC version of Monster Hunter World with only tranditional Chinese in Steam which still requires a day to unlock, while WeGame users bought the game with a price like 60% of Steam or even lower, were able to play the game 9 hours ago with simplified Chinese.

[Morgan-wfre]

TenCent owns a majority portion of fortnite for anyone wandering

[jimindecarlo]

One app for everything would be a nightmare.

[MathMass]

whenever comes to the money thing, we want it as simple as it could be

[LEK-]

Tencent is one of the really awesome companies in the world

[arjuna]

Connecting culture with tech is amazing

[zodddgod]

u wanna be a billionaire in China? add a ma in ur name

[boburzod]

i hope it's not only me thinking Jack and Pony Ma are related

[CodWii]

The richest person in China and the first Chinese to make to top 10 Forbes richest.

[arifulislamleeton]

Hi I'm Ariful Islam Leeton I'm software engineer and members of the international organization WHO

[NoName-dwxj]

I’m a Chinese and I used QQ before when I was like 7 year old and now PUBG

[visualdestination]

You forgot to mention they own fortnite, pubg and clash of clans.

[neumoniad]

4:05 “Unique Chinese innovation”. I didn’t know “innovation” meant blatant theft of other people’s ideas... 🤔