Creator of Free Fire: This is the billionaire life of Forrest Li, regarded as the game's owner
According to Forbes, the Free Fire creator's fortune currently stands at $18.5 billion dollars approximately R$ 101 billion reais.
Without a doubt, one of the most downloaded games and which has one of the largest communities currently in Brazil is Free Fire , the game has taken over all the cell phones of young people around the country and currently there are very few people who do not know what it is this Battle Royale , however what few people know and know is its owner Forrest Li .
Forrest Li is a Singaporean billionaire known as the " creator of Free Fire ", simply because he is the founder of Garena and responsible for the development of Battle Royale.
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This is the life of the billionaire creator of Free Fire
Forrest Li , 44, was one of the founders of Garena , which is not only the developer of Free Fire but also provides services to several other companies in the area of e-Sports, ecommerce and digital finance applications, however the game was without a doubt, the company's greatest success, this is represented by the increase in the company's revenue, which in 2019 exceeded 3 billion dollars, more than 15 billion reais.
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Meet Forrest Li, the "creator of Free Fire"
Forrest Li , the CEO of Garena and considered to be the creator of Free Fire , is one of the richest men in the world, was aware of the South Asian market and quickly acquired the publishing rights to Free Fire Battlegrounds . For the first time his company was part of the development of a game: Garena Free Fire, released on December 4, 2017.
This great businessman and billionaire, is born in China and currently lives in Singapore and throughout his career has created several very successful companies that you may have seen, like Shopee for example.
Forrest Li then majored in engineering and an MBA. Throughout his period of studies, he always liked games and, when he wasn't studying, he enjoyed his time playing.
After completing his degree, he worked for Motorola while pursuing his MBA.
Billionaire on account of a game
As stated earlier, Forrest Li became a billionaire in large part because of his huge success with Free Fire making it to a select list.
Currently, he was the second person to achieve this milestone, following the path of Tim Sweeney, who was the founder of the famous game developer Epic Games, creator of Fortnite, one of the direct competitors of Free Fire.
Fortuna of Forrest Li, the creator of Free Fire and Garena
You might be curious to know, after all, how many billions does Forrest Li have and the value will probably impress you!
According to Forbes, the fortune currently stands at US$ 18.5 billion, approximately R$ 101 billion reais . With that gigantic fortune he joined the list of richest people in Singapore, a country known for having several billionaires in its territory. This happened after listing his company, Garena, on the New York Stock Exchange.
The project that made this man one of the richest in the world started as a simple game produced by the company 111dots Studio , currently the game belongs to Garena and as we said, Forrest Li owns 14% of this company.
This percentage was greatly appreciated during the pandemic, as he said during this period he is working every day of the week so that his company can meet the demand of players.
Other millionaire companies besides Free Fire
As we said before, Forrest Li also owns some other companies within the technology field and also outside of it, as we will show here.
SEA LTD
SEA LTD is the company responsible for all others, as the mother of all other Forrest Li creations, including Garena, Shopee and several others.
In the year 2020 alone, while many people turned their eyes to Apple and Amazon, several other tech giants, Sea LTD became one of the fastest growing companies totaling an 880% appreciation in recent months.
shopee
While browsing your social networks you have probably already seen some ads for this store. Shopee started operating here in Brazil in 2019 and works as Aliexpress.
The company was very successful in China where it was created and even counts with Cristiano Ronaldo as one of its main promoters, hired by the owner of Garena, who is a big fan of football !
Lion City Sailors
And if you're the type of fan who knows everything about your favorite game and about the company that develops it, in this case Garena, there's a curiosity that you probably had no idea about!
Garena owns a football team in Singapore known as Lion City Sailors. Despite not being as well known, it is another investment by the Garena owner and his companies in a completely different field.
New games from Garena?
The company's CEO is always on the lookout for everything that can "bomb" on the Internet and, according to him, is working seven days a week during this period to meet all demands.
Finally, what few people know is that the focus is not just on Battle Royale, which is already a great success, but Forrest Li, the creator of Free Fire , is looking to bring new games both to Brazil and to everyone the other countries in which your company operates.
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