By making research easy to access, and puts the academic needs of the researchers before the business interests of publishers. After purchasing ICQ in 1998, AOL initiated an arbitration against Tencent with the National Arbitration Forum in the United States, alleging that OICQs domain names OICQ.com and OICQ.net were infringing on ICQs trademark. 5 Princes Gate Court, Ma Huateng - better known as "Pony Ma" - is the elusive founder, chairman and chief executive of China's titan tech rm Tencent. Tencent Holdings Ltd., also known as Tencent, is a Chinese multinational technology conglomerate holding company founded by Ma Huateng in 1998. [37], In December 2015, Ma announced that Tencent would build an "internet hospital" set up in Wuzhen that will provide long-distance diagnoses and medicine delivery. And with Tencent, thats what they get. 10 principles for great leadership, according to Disney's Bob Iger. The company's first product came after Ma participated in a presentation for ICQ, the world's first Internet instant messaging service, founded in 1996 by an Israeli company. This method required concentration of researchers and projects in one spot. While its Western peers face further scrutiny on privacy, Tencent is less restricted. Tencent, which owns a stake in. The Alibaba Group cofounder has been laying low for the last two years amid the Chinese governments crackdown on industry. 7. 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Tencent subsequently gained the backing of two overseas venture-capital firms, and in June 2004 the firm raised nearly $200 million when it went public on the Hong Kong stock exchange. In 2004, the three partners moved to Palo Alto, California, where venture capitalist Peter Thiel invested in the firm. Among other achievements, Mark Zuckerberg reached the top five in the list of wealthiest people on earth [33]. Books > In Hong Kong, he has a rebuilt palatial mansion of 1,820 m2 (19,600 sq ft). Ma said in December 2015 that Tencent would open a internet hospital in Wuzhen to facilitate long-distance diagnosis and pharmaceutical delivery. The Tencent Group (HKG: $0700 ) has developed a good understanding of the consumer behaviour in the Chinese digital market after years of dominating the market - and also refined a rather unique business model. As the biggest gaming company in the world, Tencent certainly has global reach, even if people dont yet know it. Tencent wants to enable greater connectivity across Chinese industry, leveraging the capabilities and expertise it has built to serve the billion-plus users of its consumer-facing platforms,. It differed from other social media sites at the time in the fact that it required real names and e-mail addresses [74]. On February 4, 2004, Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard student, launched the facebook.com, a directory in which fellow students entered their information and photos into a template. 3. China 2015, 20, 99-104. Reclusive, secretive, and reserved are words frequently used to describe him. Bachelor of Arts/Science, Shenzhen University. In 2004, Tencent launched an online gaming platform and started selling virtual goods to support the games published on that platform (weapons, gaming power), as well as emoticons and ringtones. We believe, and then we see. As for external competition, Tencent has experienced plenty. It was even risky, he thought, to rely too much on the founding team. Ma Huateng is a proponent of the Chinese Communist Party. Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. Reshma began her career as an attorney and activist, and founded Girls Who Code (GWC) after witnessing first-hand the gender gap in the field of Computer Science while running for US Congress (fun fact: Reshma was the first South Asian woman to run . Internet giant Tencent founder and CEO of Ma Huateng, worth $50 billion, has surpassed Alibaba Co-Founder Jack Ma 's $48 billion fortune to become China's richest person, according to the. BAT Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent are Chinas power gang. Long ago, Max Weber described charismatic authority in his book Economy and Society [8], where he identified it as one of three types of legitimate domination. Zhang set up an autonomous unit in Guangzhou, away from the Shenzhen headquarters. What do they fundamentally do wrong? In 1859, Edison quit school and began working as a train boy on the railroad between Detroit and Port Huron. His father, Ma Chenshu, moved to Shenzhen to work as a port manager when Huateng was quite young. Ma studied computer science at Shenzhen University, where he earned (1993) a Bachelor of Science degree. [Photo by Tang Mingming/For China Daily] NPC deputy believes digital economy could become the engine driving China's next phase of development, affecting many sectors Then, other manufacturers of IBM-compatible PCs also turned to Microsoft in search of its products. During the next decade, Edison grew fast as successful mogul [62]. The article Characteristics of Visionary Leadership highlights the relevance of certain management traits in the context of greenfield projects and then associates the following attributes to those of a visionary leader [18]: (1) creators of a positive and inspirational vision, (2) supporters of organized learning and growth inside the organization, (3) innovators, and (4) pioneers. Therefore, Googles initial success was not based on disruptive innovation, but rather on revolutionary innovationthe development of relevancy ranking in the search engine sector [49, 50]. By 2004, Tencent became the largest Chinese instant messaging service (holding 74 percent of the market),[33] prompting Ma to list the company on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Chuanzhi, Zhang Ruimin, Ma Yun (Jack Ma) and Ma Huateng (a description of the five companies and their leaders is provided on page 4). FANGs Facebook, Amazon, Netix and Google preside happily over Silicon Valley. Think of Apples iPhone, which rolled the iPod, cell phone and web access into a single device. Eventually, during the last two decades, this model helped Google to be involved in a relevant number of discontinuous innovations, including Android, YouTube, Google Books, and Google Maps, and some continuous ones, such as Chrome or Gmail [54, 55]. By partnering with Silicon Valleys favoured few, Tencent can enjoy exclusive invitations to the global party. Again, Zuckerberg is as charismatic as Jobs or Edison [39, 45, 71, 72]. There are few companiessimilar to Apple, Microsoft, or Googlethat are really disruptively successful over the span of, for instance, a decade, so it is not possible to collect enough samples as to conduct a statistical study. Later, Microsoft also played a key role in another emerging industry: gamingXbox [68, 69, 70]. [Nikola] Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. Through its participative leadership, Tencent is able to enhance employee motivation, and increase organizational commitment and ownership amongst employees as well as other stakeholders. Red Packets are a good example. He is said to possess property in Hong Kong as well as art items worth . Ma is a member of the 5th Shenzhen Municipal Peoples Congress and the 12th National Peoples Congress, according to the official Tencent website. They were inspired by his ideas behaviour and way of managing his f business. Jack Ma, the former English teacher who founded Alibaba, is the antithesis of his namesake: fting world leaders, setting bold targets and his penchant for shooting from the hip leave his minders. The key leadership style of Ma Huateng is transformational, as he has been able to inspire his employees to achieve great things Autocratic leaders make all the decisions without consulting their followers. This model gave Ohno ideas on how to reduce inventory and simplify assembly lines [84, 86, 87]. The actual scheme was not so much based on sparks of disruptive innovation and genius, but on a systematic approach toward producing inventions [64]. This is related to our culture. Ma Huateng is a business magnate, an entrepreneur, an engineer, a philanthropist, and an investor. Ma Huateng (Chinese: ; pinyin: M Hutng, born on October 29, 1971), also known as Pony Ma,[2] is a Chinese billionaire business magnate. And how do we power our organization to really focus on that and really drive it at a high rate? [59]. Both students were interested in finding a way for extracting useful information from the mass of data in the Internet. Ma and his colleagues were inspired by the concept and developed a comparable program with a Chinese interface and a slightly different name OICQ (or, Open ICQ). Ortega also is, as most of the previously analyzed leaders, an introvert. Let China's internet giants tell you", "Ma vs. Ma: The most expensive house in Hong Kong belongs to one of China's internet kings - but is it Jack or Pony? That's why the need for online management is increasingly urgent. The definition of entrepreneurial leadership can be traced back to different theories about entrepreneurship [14], entrepreneurial orientation [15, 16], and entrepreneurial management [16]. A charismatic leader is a person, who has the ability to influence people and who, consequently, has some controlling power over them [9]. In 2007, 2014,[6] and 2018, Time magazine named him one of the world's most influential people,[7] while in 2015, Forbes credited him as one of the world's most powerful people. People dont go to Toyota to work, they go there to think [88]. [30] He also worked for Shenzhen Runxun Communications Co. Ltd. () in the research and development department for Internet calling services. Ultimately, though, the combination of Onhos leadership and revolutionary innovation transformed Toyota from being an average car maker in Japan to becoming the number one global leader. They usually miss the future. For a while, Ma went back to his former job as a public servant, but then, in 1999, Ma persuaded his team at the ministry to go to Hangzhou and found the Alibaba Group [91]. Only in the case of Larry Page, the achievements and profile of the leader appears to be, arguably, less remarkable than that of his own company. Openness also means sharing. Enjoy reading!! Agility was their ability to do it. With this high score, he would have been able to attend Tsinghua University in Beijing, or Fudan University in Shanghai. Edison also was one of the first entrepreneurs to apply the principles of organized teamwork to the process of invention [65]. If you havent registered yet, please register and log in. That social media post reflected an uncharacteristic step for the Tencent founder, who has kept a low profile in recent years amid China's regulatory crackdowns. In 2007, Alibaba.com raised US$1.7 billion dollars in its initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong [91]. Youve got to be looking for changes you can make for the benefit of the people who are working there [89]. How has he created the capacity to pivot in anticipation of and response to changes? Zero-Covid rules, geopolitical tensions and a sliding yuan reshape Chinas growth outlook. [34] With the pager market declining, Ma improved the messaging platform by allowing QQ users to send messages to mobile handsets. He has an estimated net worth of 38.7 billion. The other most plausible alternative option, direct interviews or direct surveys, would not have been doable, given the challenge of obtaining response from a large number of highly profiled business leaders. First, the ubiquitous messaging app WeChat. He also supports organized learning and growth inside of his firm. Steve Jobs ranked top in the list of the 20 most influential Americans of all times [34]. Lulu Chen's book charts how the success of WeChat has placed Pony Ma's. Tencent launched its own portal (QQ.com) in 2003 and entered the online games sector. Resour. Jack Ma's wealth gain for the year all but evaporated, after Alibabas stock was dragged lower on renewed worries over the companys growth prospects. The 46-year-old magnate shies away from the spotlight, preferring to lead rather decisively from the shadows. The World's 10 Most Powerful Executives This year's Forbes list (May 10, 2018) of the World Most Powerful included 75 namesone for every 100 million people on earth. February 22, 2019. [19] Ma Huateng ranks fourth in the list of Forbes's China's 100 Richest, with a net worth of US$23.4 billion in December 2022. As well as empowering younger employees to take the lead, Ma and his team put in place simple rules. In 1975 William Henry Gates IIIknown as Bill Gates, a student then at Harvard University, and his friend, Paul Allen, partnered and founded a developing software company, called Microsoft [66]. Entrepreneurial Leadership is that leadership that creates visionary scenarios that are used to assemble and mobilize a supporting cast of participants who become committed by the vision to the discovery and exploitation of strategic value creation [17]. He didnt want to lead, he said. He believes in leading a transformational leading style by giving an affable environment to his employees. Ma Huateng's fortune is derived from his 9.7 percent ownership of Tencent Holdings. Ma now sits atop the worlds fth most valuable public rm, worth US$556 billion (402 billion). Next, the chapter describes a conducted multi-case study that tested the actual possible correlation between the chosen leadership framework and the profile of the leaders of their disruptively successful corporations. However, less work has been done in terms of determining which frameworks would suit better some particular organizational outputs. It has stakes in electric car maker Tesla and music-streaming service Spotify, which in turn has a stake in its Tencent Music. Here's a countdown of the 20 richest people on the planet by net worth as of spring 2022, as well as a look at who was bounced from Forbes' 2021 list. The three most common leadership styles include skill based, trait based, and behavior based approaches. [Google Scholar] Vera, D.; Crossan, M. Strategic leadership and organizational learning. In regard of the reasons why this type of profile is required in the studied context, one may be the fact that, in the case of disruptive innovation, nobody, even clients, may be able to forecast or imagine items such as the final functions and aspect of the products, the expected demand, and other features. Past attempts at breaking the international market alone havent fared well. The list of selected American corporations included the top five that could be considered disruptively successful firms as per the rapid growth: Apple, Google, Microsoft, General Electric, and Facebook [29]. Menlo Park hub was then succeeded by a larger laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey [53]. Ma quickly rose to the top of Chinas telecom business after the company raised $200 million in its IPO in June. Ma quickly discovered that it was his job to keep bureaucracy at bay. Spain. [12][13][14][15][16][17][18], As of January 2023, he has a net worth of US$43 billion according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Steve Jobs leadership style & personality. Gates is as introverted, similar to Larry Page [45, 55] and, definitively, he is not as charismatic as Steve Jobs [39, 45, 71, 72], but, still, he has been equally visionary. And lets face it, with a market of almost 1.4 billion, the state economy is still ripe for the picking. On being a supporter of organized learning and growth inside the organization: I think as a company, if you can get those two things righthaving a clear direction on what you are trying to do and bringing in great people who can execute on the stuffthen you can do pretty well [75]. These two leadership styles shaped Tencent's markethierarchy orientation culture and teamwork\innovation orientation culture respectively. As the rm realised its rapid growth ambitions, Ma feared it would lose its nimbleness and become an overly complex, cumbersome giant. The internet sector in China is politically policed, but it is also lightly regulated. Based on the contingency leadership theory,this paper analyzes the leadership style of Ma Huateng and examines the impact of his leadership style evolution on Tencent culture.Ma's leadership style changed from transactional leadership to transformational leadership.These two leadership styles shaped Tencent's markethierarchy orientation culture He then worked in research and development for China Motion Telecom Development Ltd. before founding (1998) Tencent with several friends. WeChat is the worlds largest instant messaging application, with 48 percent of Internet users in the Asia-Pacific area using it in 2015. Tencent embraced mobile and moved with the times. Under Ma's leadership, Tencent has moved into web portals, social networks, multi-player online games and e-commerce, making the company today an Internet powerhouse and China's number one brand. The leader has grown Tencents using transformational leadership style, which is also in line with his vision in the direction of continuous innovation, encouraging employees to experiment and has provided a unique model to inculcate the innovative spirit. [33], After AOL (America Online) bought ICQ in 1998, the company filed an arbitration against Tencent with the National Arbitration Forum in the United States, claiming that OICQ's domain names OICQ.com and OICQ.net were in violation of ICQ's trademark. Japan, Alibaba Group Holding Limited; Jack Ma. The resulting corporation was General Electric Company (GE) [61, 63]. But, as it matured, Ma felt the risk of the rm falling into bad habits weigh heavy. Chairman and CEO, Tencent Holdings. He Defines Failure as Giving Up: This is one of his popular leadership quality and skill that defines him a successful leader. 4. Yet, Chinese business leaders including Jack Ma (Alibaba), Lei Jun (Xiaomi), Ma Huateng (Tencent) and Wang Jianlin (Wanda) have successfully reversed the prevailing cultural prejudice. I try to focus on that: What is the future really going to be? Some Jobs words, recorded in the mentioned documentary Triumph of the Nerds [45], can give a sense of his ability for creating positive and inspirational visions [18]: To me, the spark of that (birth of personal computer industry in Silicon Valley in the early seventies) was that it was something beyond the sort of you see every day. Part of Mas deck-spreading strategy is to take Tencent worldwide, in line with the Chinese governments One Belt, One Road national grand plan. Ma Chenshu, his father, acquired a position as a port manager in Shenzhen, and the young Ma went with him. Ma himself was hailed by Time magazine in 2014 as one of the world's most influential people. Tencent had grown to become Chinas top instant messaging service by 2004, prompting Ma to list the firm on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. In 2006 Ma announced a ve-year business plan: to reach annual revenues of 10 billion renminbi (1.14 billion). Xiaomis founder and CEO Lei Jun admitted that WeChat eclipsed his product because Tencent could release one or two versions every week. The launch of WeChat is a case in point. Facebook: thebiographyscoop Since that time, the principle of lean manufacturing has been adopted by many firms and industries [84, 86, 87]. Rudy Ma, the founder of financial services company Yuanta Financial Holdings, died Tuesday evening at age 82. The innovation is the latest to integrate WeChat into peoples everyday lives cementing its status as the app for everything. 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Unlike Western app constellations, Tencent combines as many features into one app as possible. [42], Ma Huateng's wealth comes from the 9.7 percent stake in Tencent Holdings. 2023 Forbes Media LLC. We are still striving to create something really cool, trying to create things we couldnt even imagine without our new technologies. In this process, store managers constantly communicate customer feedbacks to collection designers, who immediately update models and production [77, 78]. Explore the Think at London Business School Hub. He reportedly owns property in Hong Kong and art pieces worth US$150 million. As Steve Jobs, Mas idol, once quipped, If you dont cannibalise yourself, someone else will. . Ma Huateng expressed that our basic research in science and technology is still weak, and we don't have many unique innovations. Each month product managers run 10 end-user surveys, read 100 users blogs and collect user-experience feedback from 1,000 people. Some quotes from Ma that also proves his talent as an inspirator and team builder are as follows: A good boss is better than a good company; If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one of us can defeat ten of them; We never lack money. However, he definitively qualifies as a visionary leader. One former long-term CEO of Inditex, and Mr. Ortegas business partner for 31years, Jos Mara Castellano, says that his ex-bosss working method is to discuss things intensely with small groups, delegate paperwork, listen hard to others and prefer oral over written communication [79]. As organisations grow larger they often become insular and bureaucratic. Two months later, one team presented WeChat, a text messaging and group chat software that was released in January 2011. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. The other quality of a visionary leader, supporting internal growth, was clearly evinced by the way that he spoke about Toyota and its organizational style over the length of his career. Several quotes from Larry Page that highlight his visionary skills are as follows: On being an inspirator: What is the one-sentence summary of how you change the world? In May 2005, Facebook received additional money from a venture capital firm (US$12.7 million) [74]. Tencents immense success made Ma, who was widely referred to as Pony Ma (the nickname was a play on his surname, which means horse in Chinese), one of the wealthiest individuals in China. Ma changed the softwares name to QQ in December 2000. This is the first search effort that proves the link between the visionary leadership framework and firms that experienced disruptive successunicorns. Tencent chairman and cofounder Pony Ma Huatengwho was the No. [Google . Facebook was banned in China in July 2009, the same year WhatsApp launched. However, 2years later, he closed his first company because of strong competitors such as Chinesepage [91]. WeChat, a mobile instant-messaging application that was introduced in 201, soon gathered 650 million users [94]. Innovation Tencent is also the world's largest gaming company, and amongst the world's largest technology investors, social media networks, and web/mobile app makers. By 2016, it employed 40,000 people, up from 1,000 in 2004. At an internal leadership conference, its creator, Xiaolong Zhang, put the products success down to simplicity and agility. Huateng is clearly a pioneer and innovator. By setting the right cultural tone. Tencents third source of revenue is an ecosystem built around its one billion users. Ma completed his remaining schooling from there and found a keen interest in computer technologies. Ma Huateng is the originator, CEO, and Chairman of Tencent Holdings Ltd. Six years later, in 2005, Alibaba attracted the attention of Yahoo!, which bought a 40 percent stake. The companys influence on the Chinese market was immense. As of 2015[update], WeChat (, Weixin), is the largest instant messaging platform in the world, used by 48 percent of Internet users in the Asia-Pacific region. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). How Tencent CEO Pony Ma became the richest man in China . Taobao did not charge a fee but made money from online services and advertising. Then, his two roommates, Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz, helped him add a few features and they made Facebook available to other universities [74]. Many other tech rms, such as Facebook when it acquired WhatsApp and Instagram, have legitimised internal competition. He is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Tencent Holdings, a Chinese technology conglomerate and holding company that is best known for its instant messaging app WeChat and also for mobile gaming. Zhang emailed Ma asking for permission to create a competitor to Kik Messenger, founded in 2009 by a group of students from the University of Waterloo in Canada. All Rights Reserved. Zhang was concerned that Kik or similar products could rival Tencents QQ. Under Mas leadership Tencent greatly expanded its offerings to provide users with a range of what the company described as online lifestyle services. In addition to instant messaging, those services included e-commerce sites, online media outlets, gaming and other interactive entertainment, social networking sites, online advertising, and online payment processing. In the case of entrepreneurial leadership, Gupta, MacMillan, and Surie came up with a list of 19 leadership attributes that appeared to be the most relevant [17]. (TIE) Zhao Changpeng (Canada) Bloomberg. Legend of Yulong and Legend of Xuanyuan, two online games, increased sales by more than half, to US$5.1 billion, with a profit margin of US$1.5 billion. 2004, 29, 222-240. [26] The product quickly became popular and garnered more than a million registered users by the end of 1999, making it one of the largest such services in China. In June 2004, Tencent raised nearly US$200 million in the capital market [94]. Finally, it would also be interesting to test how other leadership frameworks fit in the same context and how the same leadership framework fits in the different ones. Ma himself was hailed by Time magazine in 2014 as one of the world's most influential people. Ma quickly embraced open-source software. One is Alibaba founder Jack Ma, who is fairly well known in the States, and the other is Ma Huateng, . She's been named one of Fortune's World's Greatest Leaders, Fortune's 40 Under 40, a WSJ Magazine Innovator of the Year, a Future Lion of New York by the New York Times, a Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education winner, one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in New York by the New York Daily News, CNBC's Next List, Forbes's Most Powerful Women Speed The study described in this chapter explores how some leadership models may be linked to some exceptional occurrences, such as disruptive success. This label can be applied to startups or more maturebut not yet elitecompanies that, at some point, grew fast and became world leaders in a period of less than 20years. Yizhou Chen originated from government, therefore he took care of HR, legal, administration and government relations, Ma explained. Tencent is among the largest video game, social media, venture capital, and investment corporations in the world [93]. On being an inspirator: We look for people who are passionate about something. 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