26 Facts About Min-Liang Tan

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Min-Liang Tan was born on 5 November 1977 in Singapore to Min-Liang Tan Kim Lee, a real estate consultant, and Low Ken Yin, a homemaker.

Min-Liang Tan is the youngest of four children in his family.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Min-Liang Tan has won awards from his alma mater, NUS, such as the Outstanding NUS Innovator Award in 2011 and Outstanding Young Alumni in 2015.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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