24 Facts About Min-Liang Tan

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Min-Liang Tan or Tan Min Liang was born on 5 November 1977 and is a Singaporean businessman, internet entrepreneur and former lawyer.

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Min-Liang Tan is the co-founder, chairman, chief executive officer and creative director of the gaming hardware company Razer Inc.

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Min-Liang Tan oversees the design and development of all Razer products.

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Apart from Razer, Min-Liang Tan is a founding member of the Open Source Virtual Reality platform, which aims to create a common standard for VR program design.

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Min-Liang Tan is a board member of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore.

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Min-Liang Tan debuted in 2016 on the Forbes Singapore Rich List with a net worth of US$600 million and became the youngest self-made Singaporean billionaire at the age of 40 with a net worth of US$1.6 billion when Razer went public in 2017.

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Min-Liang Tan attended Raffles Institution and Hwa Chong Junior College prior to attending university and graduated from the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law.

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Min-Liang Tan graduated with a Master of Laws, and was ranked top 20 in his post-graduate law class when he graduated in 2002.

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Subsequently, Min-Liang Tan acquired the rights to the brand and officially incorporated Razer Inc, subsequently taking on the role of CEO and Creative Director of Razer.

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On March 31,2015, Min-Liang Tan was appointed as a board member of Intellectual Property Office of Singapore.

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On November 13,2017, Razer had their IPO and Min-Liang Tan became the youngest self-made Singaporean billionaire at the age of 40.

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Min-Liang Tan has a cult-like following worldwide and his fans have created fansites of him as well as even tattooed Min-Liang Tan's name on themselves.

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Min-Liang Tan was included in the "Top 10 Most Influential Leaders in Tech" in 2015 by Juniper Research.

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Min-Liang Tan was named one of "The 25 Most Creative People in Tech" by Business Insider.

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Min-Liang Tan has been ranked one of the top 40 most powerful people in gaming by Kotaku in their "The Kotaku Power 40" list.

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Min-Liang Tan was ranked No 1 of the 30 top Southeast Asia tech founders by TechinAsia.

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Min-Liang Tan was named the Asian of the Year in 2016 by Singaporean newspaper The Straits Times.

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Min-Liang Tan has won awards from his alma mater, the National University of Singapore, including their Outstanding NUS Innovator Award in 2011, and as one of their Outstanding Young Alumni in 2015.

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In March 2012, Min-Liang Tan contributed US$10,000 to the Wasteland 2 Kickstarter project where he admitted it was to atone for infringing the copyright of Wasteland when he was a child.

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Brian Fargo replies that Min-Liang Tan has more than made up for his downloading of the game.

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In November 2014, Min-Liang Tan donated US$10,000 and did the Ice Bucket Challenge in an effort to raise funds for ALS.

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Min-Liang Tan was a backer of Wasteland 2 and Torment: Tides of Numenera on Kickstarter which resulted in him being added to both games as a non-player character.

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Min-Liang Tan appears in Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues.

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Min-Liang Tan has had cameos in movies like Dead Rising: Watchtower where he acted as a zombie.