He Xiaopeng, 47, is the billionaire co-founder and chief executive of Xpeng, one of China’s leading makers of electric vehicles. The New York- and Hong Kong-listed, Guangzhou-based firm has a market cap of more than $17 billion. Xpeng’s robotics division…
…founded in 2016, unveiled a humanoid robot last year. The company plans to begin mass production in 2026, He said on a quarterly earnings call in May. He previously founded software company UCWeb, which he sold to Alibaba in a multibillion dollar deal in 2014. He has a net worth of $3.6 billion, according to Forbes, and holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from South China University of Technology.
