《Mai Gang: He Changed Pop Mart and Bitcoin》

Labubu is popular worldwide, and Pop Mart's market value of HKD 340 billion has made founder Wang Ning the richest person in Henan.

A joke that is often mentioned again:

Before Pop Mart went public, investors evaluated Wang Ning as: average education, never held a proper job, speaks calmly without charisma, and the team lacked elites. After Pop Mart went public, investors evaluated Wang Ning as: Wang Ning has a steady personality, speaks little, does not show emotions, and possesses many excellent qualities of a 'consumer entrepreneur'.

The same treatment was also given to Pop Mart's angel investor — Mai Gang.

Before this trendy toy giant rose, Mai Gang jokingly referred to himself as an 'alternative investor' who was 'kicked out of the group chat' by the mainstream capital circle; yet when Pop Mart's market value soared, he was invited onto the 'altar' and transformed into a legendary figure in the investment world.

However, Mai Gang's legend goes far beyond the trendy toy field.

Little known is that Xu Mingxing, the founder of the global leading crypto trading platform OKX, is also an investor in Pop Mart, reaping thousands of times returns, and all of this is inseparable from Mai Gang.

Mai Gang was also Xu Mingxing's mentor, founding and investing in his earliest entrepreneurial project Dou Ding Wang, and later co-founding OKCoin.

In fact, Mai Gang was also the guide for He Yi, co-founder of Binance, in the crypto world.

In 2014, at a private gathering organized by Mai Gang, he introduced He Yi, who was then still a TV host, to Xu Mingxing, facilitating He Yi's entry into OKCoin. Subsequently, He Yi introduced Zhao Changpeng (CZ), the current founder of Binance, to the team, thus unveiling the curtain on the global crypto exchange rivalry.

His investment map spans two seemingly unrelated fields, yet in each respective arena, it has nurtured giant enterprises that have changed the industry landscape. It can be said that Mai Gang not only made Pop Mart successful but also changed Bitcoin to a certain extent.

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