China

Zhang Yiming

Founder of ByteDance, the company behind TikTok

Born 1983

Zhou Hongyi

Founder of the Chinese security company Qihoo 360

Born 1970

Liang Wenfeng

Chinese founder of DeepSeek and the High-Flyer hedge fund

Lei Jun

Founder and CEO of Xiaomi, maker of phones and electric cars

Born 1969

Joseph Tsai

Alibaba co-founder and chairman who owns the Brooklyn Nets

Born 1964

Ren Zhengfei

Former army engineer who founded Huawei

Born 1944

Kai-Fu Lee

Taiwanese AI pioneer and investor who led Google China and founded 01.AI

Born 1961

Ding Lei

Founder and CEO of NetEase, a Chinese gaming and internet giant

Born 1971

Wang Xing

Co-founder and CEO of Meituan, China’s food-delivery giant

Born 1979

Richard Liu

Founder of JD.com, China’s major online retailer

Born 1973

Pony Ma

Co-founder and CEO of Tencent, maker of WeChat

Born 1971

Colin Huang

Former Google engineer who founded Pinduoduo and Temu’s parent PDD

Born 1980

Cheng Wei

Founder and CEO of DiDi, China’s ride-hailing leader

Born 1983

Chen Tianqiao

Founder of Shanda, China’s online-gaming pioneer, and brain-science philanthropist

Robin Li

Co-founder and CEO of Baidu, China’s leading search engine

Born 1968

Jean Liu

President of DiDi and former Goldman Sachs banker

Jack Ma

Former English teacher who founded Alibaba

Born 1964