Forrest Li
Founder and CEO of Sea Limited, owner of Shopee and Garena
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Forrest Li is a Chinese-born Singaporean entrepreneur who founded Garena in 2009, now Sea Limited, Southeast Asia’s largest internet company. Sea runs the Shopee shopping platform, the Garena games business with the hit Free Fire, and the digital-finance arm Monee.
Biography
Background
Li studied engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and earned an MBA at Stanford, where Steve Jobs’s 2005 speech inspired him. He married a Singaporean and moved to Singapore.
Garena
In 2009 he founded Garena to publish online games in Southeast Asia, including League of Legends. Garena’s own Free Fire (2017) became one of the most downloaded mobile games.
Shopee
Shopee, launched in 2015, became Southeast Asia’s largest e-commerce platform.
Sea
Renamed Sea in 2017, the company listed in New York. Li holds the roles of chairman and CEO.
Timeline
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2009
Founds Garena
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2015
Shopee launched
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2017
Renamed Sea; New York IPO; Free Fire
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2021
Sea becomes Southeast Asia’s most valuable company
Did you know?
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He says Steve Jobs’s Stanford speech changed his life.
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Free Fire is especially popular in Brazil and India.
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3
He became a Singaporean citizen.
Frequently asked
Who is Forrest Li?
Forrest Li is a Chinese-born Singaporean entrepreneur who founded Garena in 2009, now Sea Limited, Southeast Asia’s largest internet company. Sea runs the Shopee shopping platform, the Garena games business with the hit Free Fire, and the digital-finance arm Monee.
Where is Forrest Li from?
Forrest Li was born in Tianjin, China.
What is Forrest Li known for?
Forrest Li is best known for Founding Garena (2009), now Sea Limited; Shopee; Free Fire game.
References
- Forrest Li — Wikipedia. Wikipedia. Retrieved 4 November 2026.
- Forrest Li (Q61974364) — structured data. Wikidata. Retrieved 4 November 2026.
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- First published 4 November 2026
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