WHERE WILD HORSES ROAM: The Story of Ma Hauteng
FHM Australia|April 2020
For many in the western world, the term Tencent might be a foreign term when it comes to companies, yet Tencent is the largest video game company, one of the world’s most valuable technology companies, one of the world’s largest social media companies and one the world’s largest venture capital firms. And it’s all thanks to a man affectionately known by his peers as Pony Ma, a Chinese internet entrepreneur and one of the most influential people in the world. But where did it all start and how did Tencent become one of the biggest companies in the world?
WHERE WILD HORSES ROAM: The Story of Ma Hauteng

FROM JANITOR TO JUGGERNAUT

Ma Huateng was born in Badagang, Guangdong (now Dongfang City), China, on October 29, 1971, into a humble household. His father, Ma Chenshu, moved to Shenzhen to work as a port manager when Huateng was quite young. Ma completed his remaining schooling from there and found a keen interest in computer technologies. Ma enrolled at Shenzhen University in 1989 where he studied computer science and graduated with a BS degree in 1993. Following his college graduation, Ma started working at a telecommunications company named ‘China Motion Telecom Development as a pager software developer. Although seen as a respectable job, the less than $200 a month he was earning was enough for Ma to resign and look for his fortune elsewhere. He found work again in an R&D department of another internet and telecommunications company for a while, but the nagging feeling that he needed to start his own company kept him up at night.

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