Tan Min Liang

🇸🇬 Tan Min Liang

🎮 From courtroom to gaming powerhouse: Tan Min-Liang swapped his law degree for Razer’s green logo in 2005, secured early backing from IDG-Accel, Temasek, Intel Capital and Horizon Ventures, IPO’d in Hong Kong for US$529 million in 2017, hit roughly US$4 billion in revenue by 2023 and took the company private at a US$3.2 billion valuation in 2022—making him Singapore’s youngest self-made billionaire (US$1.1 billion).

👉 Lesson learned: Leverage your professional expertise to solve a genuine passion point, build a community-first brand, bring on the right investors early, and expand into adjacent services. Tan Min Liang himself said “If there’s one thing I’ve learned from gaming, you’re going the right way if there are obstacles in your way.”