Chinese entrepreneur & ex-Google engineer Colin Huang builds $1.5b startup

Chinese entrepreneur & ex-Google engineer Colin Huang builds $1.5b startup

Colin Huang, chief executive officer and founder of Pingduoduo.com, poses for a photograph at the company's new office in Shanghai, China, on Friday, Feb. 24, 2017. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg

Colin Huang belongs to a rarefied cohort of Chinese entrepreneurs who launched their careers in Silicon Valley and then returned home to start successful tech companies. Huang, an ex-Google engineer who worked on early search algorithms for e-commerce, is already on his fourth and most ambitious startup.

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