David Chen Courtesy of Sea Ltd.Singapore-headquartered gaming and e-commerce firm Sea, best known for super hit mobile game Free Fire, has just minted the city-state’s newest billionaire. Its online gaming unit, Garena, accounts for more than half of total revenue, thanks to the worldwide cult following that Free Fire enjoys. As it branched out into e-commerce, online payments and social networking, Sea, then called Garena, became Singapore’s first internet unicorn in 2014. A computer engineering graduate from the National University of Singapore, Chen worked at Temasek-owned port operator PSA Corp before turning entrepreneur. Prior to his current role at Shopee, he was Sea’s chief operating officer and chief of staff.

Source: Forbes July 17, 2020 13:15 UTC