Tencent is a complicated company - the parent company of WeChat, the WhatsApp of China with over 1.2 billion users.

Tencent also owns, an entire entertainment arm, owning movie rights such as Terminator: Dark Fate, and a music group (Tencent Music Group) with 1.5 times the users of Spotify.

But its most profitable segment is on games, owning League of Legends, Clash of Clans and Honor of Kings.

This Chinese empire have humble and mystical beginnings that can be traced back to when a little carp, who's name was Tony Ma, decided to swim up stream to join the new wave of Chinese Billionaire Dragons.

In Ep 1. We tell the grueling rise of the founding team, creating QQ - the MSN of China In Ep 2. We detail the epic battle battle between QQ vs MSN that cemented Tencent as the Microsoft Killer In Ep 3. We breakdown its gaming empire that led to the highest revenue mobile game in the world - Honor of Kings In Ep 4. We learn about the rise of WeChat - the app that made Tencent famous, and China's tech crackdown that wiped trillions off the Chinese stock market

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