Huang Zheng stepped down as Pinduoduo chairman in 2021.
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Briefly passed Zhong Shanshan (钟睒睒) to become China's richest person in 2024 as Pinduoduo's overseas arm Temu surged. Worth pairing with 王兴 (Meituan) and 刘强东 (JD) in any tour of post-Alibaba Chinese tech founders.
Born 1980 in Hangzhou. Wisconsin-Madison CS graduate, former Google engineer. Founded Pinduoduo (拼多多) in 2015, turning group-buy social commerce into China's third-largest e-commerce platform after Alibaba and JD; PDD's NASDAQ IPO in 2018 made him one of China's richest individuals. Resigned as CEO in 2020 and as chairman in March 2021 to focus on food and life-sciences research. PDD's parent company is now called PDD Holdings.
