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Colin Huang

China 46 years old Self-Made

Overview

Source of Wealth: E-commerce
Industry: Technology
Residence: Shanghai
Education: University of Wisconsin Madison (Master)
Zhejiang University (Bachelor of Arts/Science)

Assets

Pinduoduo

352,436,000 shares @ -

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PDD-US

Biography

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

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

PDD launched budget shopping site Temu in 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 the University of Wisconsin, interned at Microsoft in both Beijing and Seattle before starting his career at Google in the U.S. in 2004.