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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Family name hatnote Шаблон:Infobox person Forrest Li Xiaodong (born 1977 or 1978) is a Singaporean billionaire businessman. He is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Sea Limited, a company with subsidiaries including Garena and Shopee.[1] He is also the chairman of Lion City Sailors FC, which is owned by Sea.

Biography

Forrest Li Xiaodong was born in Tianjin, China. He earned a bachelor's degree in engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University, and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.[2]

Li did not come from generational wealth; Li was $100,000 in student loan debt and along with his wife previously lived in a single bedroom within a three-room public housing HDB flat at Braddell. He later decided to settle permanently in Singapore, taking up citizenship.[3]

Li's first company was Garena in 2009. At the time, the company had only operated out of a single shophouse off Maxwell Road at Tanjong Pagar.[4]

In March 2019, after the share price of his consumer internet company Sea Ltd increased by 45%, Li's net worth increased to more than $1 billion.[5]

Li is a football fan.[6] He is the chairman of the Lion City Sailors, a Singapore Premier League football club that was acquired by Sea in 2020.[7][8]

Personal life

Li is married and lives in Singapore.[2] Li appeared on the August 2020 cover of Forbes Asia, the Asia edition of Forbes magazine.[9] According to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Li's net worth was estimated at US$4.2 billion as of September 2022, making him the 11th richest person in Singapore.[10]

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