Sea Founder Forrest Li Is Singapore’s Richest Man with USD20 Billion Fortune
Liao Shumin
DATE:  Sep 01 2021
/ SOURCE:  Yicai
Sea Founder Forrest Li Is Singapore’s Richest Man with USD20 Billion Fortune Sea Founder Forrest Li Is Singapore’s Richest Man with USD20 Billion Fortune

(Yicai Global) Sept. 1 -- Forrest Li is now the wealthiest person in Singapore after the stock price of the online gaming and e-commerce firm Sea that he founded surged to new heights.

Li, who is also chairman and chief executive officer of Sea, is worth USD19.8 billion, according to yesterday’s Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a daily ranking of the world’s richest people. He is followed by paint tycoon Goh Cheng Liang who has assets of USD17.7 billion.

Sea's share price [NYSE:SE] closed up 1.96 percent yesterday at USD338.32. It had earlier in the day hit a historic high of USD344.77. The stock has more than doubled in the past year.

42-year-old Li, who hails from Tianjin, China, set up Sea in 2009. Formerly known as Garena Interactive Holding, the Singapore-based company’s main revenue streams are its games developer Garena, its e-commerce site Shopee and mobile payment service SeaMoney. SeaMoney obtained a full digital banking license in Singapore last December.

The business has gone from strength to strength. Gross profit soared more than four-and-a-half times in the second quarter from the same period last year to USD930 million, according to the company's latest earnings report. Revenue surged two-and-a-half-fold to USD2.3 billion.

Editor: Kim Taylor

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