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Forrest Li

CEO & Founder, Sea Limited

Search every verified Forrest Li interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Forrest Li, founder and CEO of Sea, discussed the company's growth and strategy at Stripe Tour Singapore in September 2026. In a fireside chat with Stripe Chief Revenue Officer Tyler Bryson, Li reflected on Sea's origins and the early skepticism about building large-scale internet businesses in Southeast Asia. He described his practice of personally reading customer emails, stating that he takes them seriously and that more than half of the cases reveal underlying process issues. Li also noted that Sea has a loan book exceeding $10 billion, with about 50 million people holding outstanding credit, and he emphasized the importance of humility, adaptability, and perseverance throughout his entrepreneurial journey. On the company's Q2 2026 earnings call in August 2026, Li reported that Sea generated $7.8 billion in revenue, up 48% year-on-year, with over $917 million in adjusted EBITDA. He expressed optimism that Shopee would achieve $1 billion in adjusted EBITDA for the full year. During the call, Li also discussed maintaining market share in certain regions, gaining share in South Asia and Taiwan, and growing faster than competitors in Brazil. He addressed the balance between growth and profitability, and mentioned plans to launch a game developed with Capcom in familiar markets such as Southeast Asia, Latin America, Taiwan, and potentially the Middle East within the year.

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“At this moment we have over $10 billion loan book. So it's like we lend out throughout ourself lend out like over $10 billion and this at this moment there's about 50 million people have outstanding credit with us. So if you do the math it's about $200 per person. So I think again so in the Singapore setting maybe 200 yeah it's just a not much but it's like for a lot of part for a lot of people in our market and this”

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