Changing the Game
Last year, Razer co-founder and CEO Tan Min-Liang posted an April Fool’s joke on his Facebook page: “Given that I’ve created the entire gaming peripherals industry, reinvented the gaming laptop industry, kickstarted the entire gaming phone category and steadfastly refused to create the gaming kitchen appliance industry ... I believe my time here is almost done.”
A fake want-ad for his replacement was a typical move for the famously cheeky Tan, an avid gamer who set his career as a lawyer aside (and didn’t tell his parents) when he decided to start Razer in 2005 with his American online gaming pal Robert Krakoff. Other recent exploits include a 2019 announcement that he was committing S$10 million in
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