Ma Huateng
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Ma Huateng
Ma Huateng, also known as Pony Ma, is a Chinese internet entrepreneur. He is the founder, president, chief executive officer and executive board member of Tencent Inc., one of the largest Internet companies in China. The company controls China’s biggest mobile instant messaging service and its subsidiaries provide media, entertainment, internet and mobile phone value-added services...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth29 October 1971
CountryChina
entertainment largest regardless revenue segment whether
On all open platforms, regardless of whether it's Facebook or the Apple App Store, the largest segment is entertainment and games. It's the largest revenue segment. And it's the same for Tencent.
people
My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
creating good matters product received users wealth
Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.
adds central official
A Central Bank official said that Q-coin did not affect the renminbi; it adds vibrancy to the economy.
There should be order if the development of the cyber world is to be sustainable.
ask future mainstream morning understand wake worry
If you ask me what I worry about every morning when I wake up, it's that I don't understand future mainstream Internet users' habits.
chasing clinging cool imagine science striving trying
At Tencent, we may be businessmen, but we are still chasing our IT, our science. We are still striving to create something really cool, trying to create things we couldn't even imagine without our new technologies. I am still clinging to this enthusiasm.
develop
It's difficult for any single company to develop all the applications and services.
allowing bring capture china competition hours market months pops several
In America, when you bring an idea to market, you usually have several months before competition pops up, allowing you to capture significant market share. In China, you can have hundreds of competitors within the first hours of going live. Ideas are not important in China - execution is.
When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.
entered
Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.