Huang, 43, was born in Zhejiang, China, holds a degree in computer science from the university of Wisconsin and spent his early career working at Google as a software engineer. After selling a small e-commerce business in 2010, he founded Temu parent Pinduoduo (PDD) in 2015 and now looks on course to become the world’s next Jeff Bezos, even managing to attract the praise of his billionaire rival, Alibaba founder Jack Ma, who congratulated the company for pushing the boundaries of e-commerce.