FOUNDER PROFILE

Tang Yan

Tang Yan

Tang Yan

Founder, CEO and Chairman of Momo

From Hunan to Beijing, in 17 years Tang Yan has transformed from being a riotous youth from a working-class family to the CEO of Momo, China’s top social networking app worth US$7.9 billion.

Prior to founding Momo Technology, he was the chief editor of Netease from 2003 to 2011.

Tang is now the CEO and chairman of Momo.

He was named by Fortune magazine to its “40 Under 40” list of the most powerful business elites under the age of 40 in October 2014.

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