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.
