Su Hua

Su Hua founded Kuaishou as a GIF-maker app in 2011, then transformed it into a video-sharing and live-streaming platform.The app has garnered a wide user base (including many in rural China), topping more than 110 million daily active users as of December 2017.Backed in part by Chinese Internet firm Tencent, Kuaishou's valuation surged to a reported $18 billion in January 2018.Su, a native of Hunan, was reportedly born in a village that didn't have electricity until 1998.Before founding Kuaishou, Su worked as a programmer at Baidu and Google.