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PROFILE
Colin Huang
$32.3B
$321M (1.00%)
Real Time Net Worth
as of 8/8/26
Reflects change since 5 pm ET of prior trading day.
$45.3B
2025 China's 100 Richest Net Worth
as of 11/5/25
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From the Editor
Last Updated Mar 10, 2026, 1:01am EDT
- Colin Huang is the founder of PDD Holdings, the Chinese e-commerce company that changed its name from Pinduoduo in 2023.
- Huang, who stepped down as chairman of the company in 2021, is still a major shareholder of PDD.
- PDD launched budget shopping site Temu in 2022 to compete with Shein, led by fellow Chinese billionaire Sky Xu.
- A serial entrepreneur, Huang earlier founded online games company Xinyoudi and e-commerce platform Ouku.com.
- Huang, who has a master's in computer science from the University of Wisconsin, interned at Microsoft in both Beijing and Seattle before starting his career at Google in the U.S. in 2004.
Wealth History
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Forbes Lists
list appearances
16
Personal Stats
- Age
- 46
- Source of Wealth
- E-commerce, Self Made
- Residence
- Shanghai, China
- Citizenship
- China
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Zhejiang University; Master, University of Wisconsin Madison
In Their Own Words
I got to learn how to manage and accepted the status of being rich before I got rich.
Colin Huang
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