Chen Tianqiao: the billionaire funding brain research

Chen Tianqiao once ran China’s largest internet firm, then moved to Singapore and transformed his firm into an investment group. Now he’s turning to philanthropy.

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"A dozen years ago, the largest internet firm in China wasn't Alibaba or Tencent, but the game developer Shanda Interactive Entertainment," says Bloomberg. Co-founder Chen Tianqiao, who had become a billionaire at 30, was "more prominent than Alibaba's Jack Ma" then he simply "disappeared", leaving China and "dropping out of view completely" before taking the Nasdaq-listed company private in 2012.

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