Chen Tianqiao on Founding and Origins

Chen Tianqiao — founder profiled in the Chinese Founder Ledger — is documented as follows: fudan University economics graduate who founded online gaming company Shanda in 1999 with family members, grew it into China's largest internet company by market capitalization by 2004, took it private in 2012, and now runs Shanda Group as a family investment firm while funding brain-science research through the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute. The profile is grounded in the 2 sources indexed for this founder.

Committed $1 billion in late 2016 to found the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for brain science research.

Chen earned an economics degree from Fudan University in 1993, worked at state-owned developer Shanghai Lujiazui Group and then Kinghing Trust & Investment, before starting online gaming company Shanda with family members in 1999.