Tan Siliang (), also known as Eric Tan, is a Chinese

billionaire A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least 1,000,000,000, one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The ...

businessman, the chairman and co-founder of

Qutoutiao Qutoutiao () is a Chinese mobile content aggregator. History The company was founded in 2016, and is based in Shanghai. In English, the name translates to "fun headlines." Chinese billionaire Eric Tan is the chairman and co-founder. The compa ...

, a mobile content aggregator.

Early life

Tan earned a bachelor of engineering degree in automation from

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (; abbr. THU) is a national public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education. The university is a member of the C9 League, Double First Class University Plan, Projec ...

in 2002, and a master of engineering degree in artificial intelligence from the

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences The University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS; ) is a public university for graduate education, under the direct leadership of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The predecessors of UCAS are the Graduate University of the Chinese ...

in 2006.

Career

Tan worked for Yahoo China as a senior engineer. Qutoutiao was founded in 2016, and is based in Shanghai. In September 2018, following Qutoutiao's IPO, Tan's net worth was estimated at US$1.7 billion.

References

Living people Billionaires from Shanghai Chinese technology company founders Yahoo! people Tsinghua University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences alumni {{China-bio-stub