Ma Huateng: "China Penguin" With Wealth Spanning 100 Billion

These draught, such as coal and iron ten years ago, five years ago, once led capital frenzy, and also led to surging wealth.

Every era has its own draught, and so is it in China.

These draught, such as coal and iron ten years ago, five years ago, once led capital frenzy, and also led to surging wealth. The biggest draught in China today is undoubtedly the Internet industry.

Is the leader of this storm.

After 2013, Ma Huateng again won the title of the richest Chinese family fortune in 2014.

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Holding 2013 annual report shows that Ma Huateng's wholly owned Advance Data Services Limited is the second largest shareholder of Tencent holding shares, with a shareholding ratio of 10.20%.

As of July 4th, the richest resource research office of the financial weekly reported that the Ma Huateng family's equity wealth reached 100 billion 684 million yuan, becoming the only richest fortune in the Chinese family wealth list.

"China penguin"

On the list of family wealth, Ma Huateng is also a rare "70 after" tycoon.

Ma Huateng, a young man, wanted to be an astronomer. His love for astronomy has not subsided.

However, in 1989, after graduating from high school, Ma Huateng entered the computer department of Shenzhen University. Astronomy became another spiritual pursuit of Ma Huateng's addiction to the Internet.

After graduating from University, Ma Huateng worked in some small companies. He later entered the company as a software engineer. He was mainly responsible for developing paging software and has been the director of the Development Department of the company.

Before the popularity of real Internet, a group of people in China experienced the magic of Internet through Hui du Net. Ma Huateng was one of them.

In 1995, Ma Huateng was determined to make his own platform on Hui do online, so he invested 50 thousand yuan to set up the ShenZhen Railway Station in 4 telephone lines and 8 computers. He served as the station master.

Through the Internet, Ma Huateng recognized a group of pioneers of China's Internet, including Ding Lei, who later founded NetEase.

In 1997, Ding Lei founded the NetEase, which is a great encouragement and stimulus for Ma Huateng.

In 1994, Ma Huateng made a first barrel of gold in the stock market with a value of 100 thousand yuan, and gained 100 times and gained 10 million.

Ma Huateng's experience in software development has made him very sensitive to the practical software market. He deeply feels that the two areas of paging and networking are huge.

Later, Ma Huateng and his friends developed an online Chinese ICQ service --OICQ based on INTERNET.

In November 11, 1998, Ma Huateng and his classmate Zhang Zhidong established the "Shenzhen Tencent computer system Co., Ltd.". The original business was to expand the wireless network paging system to small and medium-sized enterprises.

This is the initial form of QQ that has been popular in China.

In 2003, Ma Huateng decided to enter the portal.

At the same time, there is also the QQ game platform. After a year on line, at the same time, the highest number of online people exceeded 1 million, becoming the largest leisure game portal in China.

At present, Tencent is the largest market share in China's online games market.

At the end of 2005, qq.com also surpassed Sina to become the largest traffic portals in China.

After entering the portal, Ma Huateng chose his next city in the field of electronic commerce.

In 2005, the pat Network was launched on the line with the huge user group of Tencent, and pushed into the top three of the domestic C2C platform.

At the same time, Tencent has also invested in a number of e-commerce platforms such as Tongcheng, Holle, Kelan diamond, Gao Peng, Yi Xun and elong.

In 2014, Tencent invested $214 million in Jingdong, holding 15% of Jingdong.

The explosive growth of smart phones is another huge business opportunity in Ma Huateng's eyes.

In 2011, Tencent launched WeChat for smart phones, and Zhang Xiaolong, senior vice president, led WeChat products.

As of March 31, 2014, the total number of monthly active users at home and abroad reached 396 million WeChat.

Tencent is opening another business myth with its application in WeChat, such as e-commerce, games and fortune pay.

At present, Tencent has become the most valuable company in the mainstream Internet companies in China.

As of July 4, 2014, Tencent's market value reached 929 billion 500 million yuan.

More than Baidu, NetEase, Sina, Sohu, 360, Youku, Dangdang, Shanda, giant, everyone, Ctrip and so on dozens of NASDAQ listed China Internet Corporation total.

However, in the annual report of Tencent, there is no record of Ma Huateng's family holdings.

His father, Ma Chen Shu, was the first chairman of the Tencent, giving Ma Huateng a lot of help in finance and corporate governance.

While his mother was the former legal representative of Tencent, but the two did not own shares in the company.

In addition, there is no record of his wife Wang Danting and his daughter.

Empire new version

Since 2014, Tencent has expanded more frequently in the Internet field, but has begun to bid farewell to the "horse race enclosure" and gradually move towards vertical integration.

Tencent announced

In the strategic agreement, we mentioned that Tencent's QQ online shopping and patting of the physical business department and distribution team will be integrated into Jingdong.

Prior to that, in September 16, 2013, Tencent invested $448 million in Sogou and held 36.5% stake in Sogou.

Meanwhile, Tencent will incorporate its general search, ask and encyclopedia related search team and QQ input method team into Sogou, while Sogou will offer products including Sogou input method and Sogou search to the huge user groups in Tencent's PC and mobile communities.

In February 19, 2014, Tencent shares public comment, accounting for 20% of the shares.

After Tencent's entry into the stock market, the application function of public comment will be deeply integrated with Tencent products such as QQ and WeChat. Tencent intends to build the largest O2O ecosystem in China.

In May 2014, Tencent became a new second largest shareholder.

This action is also an important step in the application of Tencent networking.

Then invest $736 million to get a 19.9% stake in 58 cities, and Tencent's O2O territory expanded again.

In the Internet Financial wave, Tencent, as the Internet giant, is still unwilling to lag behind.

At present, in the field of Internet finance, Tencent has been involved in payments, securities, insurance, wealth management, financial information services and other fields.

The WeChat CAITONG platform, which was launched in early 2014, was over 80 billion yuan by the end of May.

In the list of the first batch of private banks announced by the CBRC, Tencent is also on the list.

At present, private banks, which are led by Tencent and Bai Ye yuan, are in the process of preparing for construction. There is news that the private bank is named "Qianhai bank".

In the future, private banks will be another new force in the Tencent territory.