As recreational drone popularity takes off,Action Archives so has the wealth of DJI founder Frank Wang Tao, whose company is the world's biggest consumer drone maker.
Wang has cracked the Forbes"Richest in Tech"list of the world's top 100 in the industry, taking the 76th spot with $3.2 billion.
SEE ALSO: Drug cartels are now using hulking drones to smuggle goods over the borderAnd at 36, Wang is also Asia's youngest. The China native founded DJI 11 years ago from his dorm room at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, later setting up a manufacturing hub in nearby Shenzhen.
Frank Wang, founder of DJI. Credit: VCG via Getty Images Today, DJI dominates the drone market, particularly in the price zone exceeding $1,000, where more serious hobbyists and professional filmmakers are. Analysts say it doesn't compete aggressively in the sub-$500 category, where it faces hundreds of other companies gunning for the "toy" category.
Atop the list for Asia is Alibaba's Jack Ma, at 7th place with $37.4 billion. Alibaba is China's top e-commerce player, and also owns wildly successful Taobao retail platform.
Jack Ma, founder of the Alibaba Group. Credit: Getty Images In November, Alibaba moved $17.8 billion in sales during its Singles' Day shopping sale -- the equivalent of Black Friday in the U.S. Also consider that Black Friday only moved $4.45 billion in 2015, in comparison.
In 8th place on the Forbeslist is Pony Ma Huateng, the owner of Tencent at $36.7 billion. Tencent operates, amongst a deluge of web properties, China's dominant messenger app, WeChat.
WeChat's wallet function is so successful, it's practically ubiquitous in real-life use in China, where people use it for everything from paying street vendors, to getting the cheque at restaurants and shops by scanning a QR code.
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