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Simon Loong
Simon Loong (龍沛智) is a Hong Kong fintech entrepreneur, born in 1977, who founded the lending and digital-banking group WeLab in January 2013 and remains its Group CEO.
Song Shu Pin Pin
Song Shu Pin Pin (松鼠拼拼) was a Beijing-based community group-buying platform for low-price fresh food, founded by Meituan co-founder Yang Jun in 2018 and collapsed in 2019.
Steven Lam (GOGOX)
Steven Lam (林凯源, Lam Hoi Yuen) is a Hong Kong entrepreneur who co-founded the logistics platform GoGoVan in 2013 and serves as chairman and Co-CEO of successor GOGOX Holdings.
Su Hua
Su Hua (宿华), born 1982, is a Chinese technology entrepreneur who co-founded Kuaishou, the Beijing short-video and live-streaming company, serving as its chief executive until 2021 and chairman until 2023.
Sun Yuanbo
Sun Yuanbo (孙元波) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who ran fruit group buys through QQ groups from 2011, co-founded 你我您 in 2016, and became COO of Nicetuan after their 2019 merger.
Tang Guangliang
Tang Guangliang (唐光亮), also known as Guangliang Tang, is a Chinese retail entrepreneur who founded the convenience-store brand Kuailehui in 2008 and the community group-buying platform Kaola Jingxuan in Changsha in 2018.
Tang Ning
Tang Ning (Ning Tang, 唐宁) is a Chinese financier who founded CreditEase in Beijing in 2006 as China's first marketplace lending company and leads NYSE-listed Yiren Digital.
Tang Yan
Tang Yan (唐岩) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who co-founded Momo, the Beijing-based social networking company known as Zhiwen Group and listed on Nasdaq as MOMO.
Victor Zhang
Victor Zhang (Zhang Yuejia) is a Chinese education executive, co-founder and president of the online English tutoring company VIPKid from 2015 until his departure in 2022.
VIPKid
VIPKid is a Chinese online education company founded by Cindy Mi in 2013 that connected Chinese children with North American teachers for live video English classes.
Wang Peng (internet entrepreneur)
Wang Peng (王鹏), also known as Peng Wang, is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who co-founded and co-led the community group-buying platform Shihuituan (Nice Tuan) until it shut down in 2022.
Wang Ruixu
Wang Ruixu (王锐旭), born 1990 in Shantou, Guangdong, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded JoiWay in 2013 as a student, creating the part-time and flexible-jobs platform Jianzhimao (兼职猫).
Wang Sicong
Wang Sicong (王思聪) is a Chinese investor and esports entrepreneur, son of Wanda founder Wang Jianlin, who founded Prometheus Capital and the Panda TV streaming platform.
Wang Xing
Wang Xing (王兴) is a Chinese technology entrepreneur, the founder, chairman, and CEO of Meituan, the Beijing food-delivery and local-services platform founded in 2010, after co-founding the social network Xiaonei and microblogging service Fanfou.
Wang Xinwen
Wang Xinwen (王信文) is a Chinese games entrepreneur who co-founded the Shanghai mobile-games developer Lilith Games in May 2013 and has served as its chief executive since.
Wang Yi
Wang Yi (王一) is a Chinese games-industry executive, founder and CEO of ZLONGAME, a Beijing mobile game developer founded in 2015, known for the hit Langrisser and for publishing in Japan and South Korea.
Weiyi
Weiyi (为艺) was a Beijing music-education O2O platform founded in September 2014 by Yan Bojun, matching students with teachers for offline lessons until October 2015.
WeLab
WeLab is a Hong Kong fintech group founded by Simon Loong in 2013, operating the WeLend lending platform and the digital banks WeLab Bank and Bank Saqu.
Wen Chenghui
Wen Chenghui (温城辉, born 1993) is a Chinese entrepreneur from Guangdong who founded the gift e-commerce app Liwushuo, dubbed the "post-90s Jack Ma" by Chinese media.
Wu Bin (Chinese entrepreneur)
Wu Bin (吴彬) is a Chinese entrepreneur from Nanning, Guangxi, founder and CEO of Qunjielong (群接龙), a WeChat mini-program supplying group-buying tools to community sellers.
Wu Xinhong
Wu Xinhong (吴欣鸿), born 1981, is the founder, CEO, and chairman of Meitu, Inc., the Xiamen photo-editing app company he started in 2008 and listed in Hong Kong in 2016.
Xian Le Pin
Xian Le Pin (鲜乐拼) is a Chinese community group-buying platform for fresh produce and household goods, launched in May 2018 in Shijiazhuang and operated by Beijing Tianxia Yimao Technology.
Xiao Dun
Xiao Dun (肖盾) is a Chinese education-technology entrepreneur who co-founded 17zuoye with Liu Chang in 2011, one of China's largest online homework platforms for primary and secondary students.
Xiao Zhilong
Xiao Zhilong (肖志龙) is a Chinese entrepreneur, founder and chairman of Linlin Yi, a Suzhou community group-buying platform launched in March 2018 that raised nearly US$100 million before merging into rival Tongcheng Life in July 2020.
Xu Jianwen
Xu Jianwen (许建文), born in 1984, is a Chinese internet-finance entrepreneur who founded and led Renren Jucai, a Shenzhen P2P lending platform specializing in car-backed loans.
Xue Liang
Xue Liang (薛亮) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded the wealth-management platform Jucaimao in Shanghai in 2014 and was convicted of fundraising fraud in 2021.
Xuebajun
Xuebajun (学霸君) was a Shanghai-based Chinese K12 education-technology company founded in 2013 by Zhang Kailei, known for its photo-search homework app and abrupt December 2020 shutdown.
Yang Jun (internet entrepreneur)
Yang Jun (杨俊) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur, born in 1984, who co-founded the social network Xiaonei, was Meituan's vice president of sales, and founded Songshu Pinpin.
Yao Runhao
Yao Runhao (姚润昊), born 1988, is a Chinese gaming entrepreneur who founded Paper Games in Suzhou in 2013, a studio specializing in games for female players such as Love and Producer.
Yu Dan (business executive)
Yu Dan (于丹) is a Chinese internet executive and CEO of Huafang Group, the live-streaming company behind Huajiao Live, listed in Hong Kong in 2022.