Li says it took him five minutes in December 2007 to decide to invest in Facebook, even though it barely had any revenues. He also invested in Siri and Spotify.
At age 12, Li fled China with his family. Two years later his father, who had been a primary school principal in China but then worked at a watch factory, died.
At the announcement of his retirement, Li joked that he'd been "working for a long time, too long."
In Their Own Words
The burden of poverty and this bitter taste of helplessness and isolation sort of branded on my heart forever the questions that still drive me.
Taylor Swift endorsed Harris late Tuesday, and Matt Damon and Lin-Manuel Miranda will host a star-studded fundraiser for the Harris-Walz ticket in September.
CK Hutchison will control 49% of the combined business while Vodafone, Britain’s third largest mobile provider, will own the remainder, the companies said in a statement Wednesday.
Cortical Labs, an Australian startup developing a new type of artificial intelligence that combines lab-grown human brain cells with computer chips, has raised $10 million in a funding round led by Horizons Ventures, the private investment arm of Hong Kong’s richest person, Li Ka-shing.