SINGAPORE: Li Xiaodong was attending a college English class when the American lecturer asked each student to come up with a Western name. Many chose Michael, after the basketball superstar Michael Jordan. When his turn came around, the shy youth picked Forrest - as in Gump.
That alias would come to define the self-professed outlier who now oversees Garena, an online gaming portal and e-commerce provider that is now South-East Asia’s largest startup.
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