黄峥 (Huáng Zhēng) · Colin Huang (Huang Zheng), founder of…

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1 Colin Huang (Huang Zheng), founder of Pinduoduo

About Colin Huang

born 1980 · 企业家 entrepreneur

Former Google engineer who founded the group-buying shopping app 拼多多 (Pinduoduo) in 2015 and stepped down as its chairman in 2021; its overseas arm Temu has since grown worldwide.

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HSK 7-9

黄峥是拼多多的创始人。

Huáng Zhēng shì Pīnduōduō de chuàngshǐrén.

Huang Zheng is the founder of Pinduoduo.

HSK 7-9

黄峥2021年辞去了拼多多董事长的职务。

Huáng Zhēng èr líng èr yī nián cíqù le Pīnduōduō dǒngshìzhǎng de zhíwù.

Huang Zheng stepped down as Pinduoduo chairman in 2021.

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In August 2024 he briefly passed 钟睒睒 as China's richest person. The 拼 of 拼多多 means 'to pool': shoppers team up with friends for a group price, and 拼单 'to pool an order' is now an everyday word.

In Pop Culture

黄峥 Huáng Zhēng

Colin Huang

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.