Ex-Google engineer builds US$1.5bil startup in 21 months


  • TECH
  • Friday, 28 Apr 2017

Colin Huang, chief executive officer and founder of Pinduoduo, poses for a photograph at the company's office in Shanghai, China, on Friday, Feb. 24, 2017. Pinduoduo, or PDD, is a kind of Facebook-Groupon mashup that Huang believes could revolutionize e-commerce. 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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