Joseph Tsai
businessman
Joseph Chung-Hsin Tsai (Chinese: 蔡崇信; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chhòa Chông-sìn; born January 19, 1964) is a Taiwanese-Canadian billionaire business magnate, lawyer, and philanthropist. He is a co-founder and chairman of the Chinese multinational technology company Alibaba Group. Tsai, with his former wife Clara Wu Tsai, owns the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA), the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), the San Diego Seals of the National Lacrosse League (NLL), and has interests in several other professional sports franchises.
Early life and education
Tsai was born in Taipei, Taiwan, to Paul C. Tsai (Chinese: 蔡中曾; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chhòa Tiong-cheng, d.2013), a second-generation lawyer, and Ruby Tsai. He has three younger siblings: Eva, Vivian, and Benjamin.
Tsai's grandfather, Ruchin Tsar, left the Chinese mainland in 1948, part of the Kuomintang exodus of millions fleeing the communists as the country's civil war ended. Tsar had been an adviser to the Kuomintang government of nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek.
At age 13, Tsai was sent to the U.S. to attend the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, where he played both lacrosse and football (inside linebacker) and was a member of Cleve House. Tsai enrolled at his father's alma mater, Yale University, in fall 1982. He played for the Yale varsity lacrosse team for four years and has remained a supporter of the team.
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