Bekker founded the M-Net pay-television business in 1985 and became CEO of Naspers in 1997. He was appointed as chair in 2015. In 2001, under his leadership, Naspers bought a third of Chinese internet firm Tencent for $34 million. Tencent's total market value has since skyrocketed to more than $470 billion.
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