Joseph Tsai (; born January 1964)
is a Hong Kong-Canadian billionaire businessman, lawyer, and philanthropist.
He is a co-founder and executive vice chairman of the Chinese multinational technology company
Alibaba Group and owns the
Brooklyn Nets
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of the American
National Basketball Association
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(NBA), the
New York Liberty
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of the
Women’s National Basketball Association
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(WNBA), the
San Diego Seals
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History
On August 30, 2017, the NLL award ...
of the
National Lacrosse League
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The NLL currently has fifteen teams: ten in the United States and five in Canada. The N ...
, and has interests in several other professional sports franchises. Tsai holds a Hong Kong SAR passport.
Tsai's net worth is estimated to be US$8.1 billion.
Early life
Tsai was born in
Taipei
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, Taiwan, to Paul C. Tsai (, d.2013), a second-generation lawyer, and Ruby Tsai. He has three younger siblings: Eva, Vivian, and Benjamin.
The Tsai family had escaped to Taiwan as part o