Biography
Ma Huateng, also known as Pony Ma, is the chairman and CEO of Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings. Tencent's popular social messaging app WeChat has over 1.4 billion monthly users. Known at home for mobile games such as battle game Honor of Kings, Tencent is also one of the largest videogame publishers globally and has acquired a stake in U.S. videogame company Epic Games. It has also invested 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 at China Motion Telecom Development before starting Tencent in 1998.