Zhang Xiaolong, also known as Allen Zhang, is dubbed the "father of WeChat," the Chinese multi-purpose messaging app that has over 1.24 billion monthly active users in the first quarter of 2021, according to statista.com.
Zhang Xiaolong is the president of WeChat Group at Tencent. Zhang and his team started the WeChat project in 2010, which attracted 100 million users barely two years later.
Now almost all Chinese people who have a smartphone, home and abroad, use WeChat to message or call each other, share news or pictures or videos, or to pay for almost everything on a daily basis. Zhang, being liked or feared for WeChat's ubiquity or dominance, has become a legend in the mobile internet world.