Shanda founder Chen, the missing China mogul, returns with $1b for brain research

Shanda founder Chen, the missing China mogul, returns with $1b for brain research

Billionaire Tianqiao Chen, chief executive officer of Shanda Group, poses for a portrait in his office in Singapore on Friday, June 9, 2017. Photo: Sanjit Das/Bloomberg

A dozen years ago, the largest internet company in China wasn’t Alibaba or Tencent, but game developer Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd. Its founder was a young man named Chen Tianqiao, who had become a billionaire at 30.

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