Person profile
Founder and chief executive of NetEase
"Valued as of" is the effective date of the market closes, exchange rates, and filings inside the estimate. "Sources checked" is when the pipeline last verified those sources successfully. A weekend check can confirm a Friday valuation without inventing weekend movement.
As of September 4, 2026, William Ding's estimated net worth is about $34.6B(34.6 billion US dollars). That places William Ding at #12 among the people Net Worth Leader currently tracks.
This is an estimate of assets minus documented liabilities. It is not a cash balance, and many holdings may be restricted, pledged, illiquid, or difficult to value.
William Ding founded NetEase in 1997 and has been its chief executive since 2005, building one of the largest video game publishers in the world on top of an early internet portal. His estimate converts the ordinary shares disclosed in NetEase's annual report into depositary share equivalents valued at the Nasdaq close.
Ding started NetEase as an email and portal service, listed it on Nasdaq in 2000, and pivoted to online games in the early 2000s with titles such as Fantasy Westward Journey. The company added a Hong Kong listing in 2020.
The estimate moves with the NetEase depositary share price. The share count updates with each annual report.
William Ding's estimate rose mainly because NetEase, Inc. shares increased from the prior comparable close.
A one-day estimate change is not the same as income, profit, or a realized gain or loss.
| Component | Class | Ownership | Valuation basis | Central value | Supported range | Evidence date | Price date | Sources | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NetEase ordinary shares held by Shining Globe International Limited (five ordinary shares per ADS)NetEase, Inc. (NTES, American depositary shares (1 ADS = 5 ordinary shares)) | listed equity | indirect (1,450,300,000 units) | Listed close | 34.6 billion US dollars | Priced value | [1] NetEase, Inc., annual report on Form 20-F for 2025, [2] Daily unadjusted closing prices, chart endpoint | current |
Liabilities without a documented value are never shown as zero; they are simply not included, and that limitation is part of source coverage below.
100.0% of this profile's modeled gross value is supported by Tier 1 or Tier 2 evidence (primary filings, official documents, licensed market data, or audited accounts). The profile carries a strong coverage label.
No meaningful range beyond the central estimate is supported for this profile, so only the central value is published. Unknown liabilities are not evidence that no liabilities exist. No personal liability is documented for this profile, so none is deducted.
The timeline runs from June 12, 2026 to September 4, 2026; the latest estimate is lower than the first point. Points before August 20, 2026 are labeled modeled reconstructions: today's reviewed ownership records applied to the closing prices of each earlier market date. Published history begins August 20, 2026 and grows one point per completed market date.
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| 34.6 billion US dollars | Published snapshot | |
| 34.0 billion US dollars | Published snapshot | |
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| 34.8 billion US dollars | Published snapshot | |
| 35.3 billion US dollars | Published snapshot | |
| 34.8 billion US dollars | Published snapshot | |
| 36.9 billion US dollars | Modeled reconstruction | |
| 36.2 billion US dollars | Modeled reconstruction | |
| 36.1 billion US dollars | Modeled reconstruction | |
| 36.3 billion US dollars | Modeled reconstruction | |
| 35.6 billion US dollars | Modeled reconstruction | |
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| 37.6 billion US dollars | Modeled reconstruction | |
| 36.9 billion US dollars | Modeled reconstruction | |
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| 34.7 billion US dollars | Modeled reconstruction | |
| 34.9 billion US dollars | Modeled reconstruction | |
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| 37.6 billion US dollars | Modeled reconstruction | |
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| 35.9 billion US dollars | Modeled reconstruction | |
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| 34.1 billion US dollars | Modeled reconstruction | |
| 34.6 billion US dollars | Modeled reconstruction | |
| 35.3 billion US dollars | Modeled reconstruction | |
| 35.2 billion US dollars | Modeled reconstruction | |
| 35.1 billion US dollars | Modeled reconstruction | |
| 35.3 billion US dollars | Modeled reconstruction | |
| 36.5 billion US dollars | Modeled reconstruction | |
| 36.5 billion US dollars | Modeled reconstruction |
On paper, William Ding's estimated net worth is equivalent to about 53,200,000 PlayStation 5 consoles.
Reference value $650, effective 2026-04-02. PlayStation.Blog (Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Uses Sony's US recommended retail price effective April 2, 2026, before sales tax.
Spending this estimate over a full century would take about $11 every second, around the clock.
Constant spend rate over exactly 100 years. Net Worth Leader formula
Divides the estimate evenly across every second of 100 years. It is arithmetic, not a spending plan.
Split evenly across every person on Earth, the estimate works out to about $4 per person.
Cited population 8,200,000,000, effective 2024-07-01. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division
Divides the estimate evenly across the United Nations 2024 world population estimate of 8.2 billion. Arithmetic only.
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The count of 1,450,300,000 ordinary shares comes from NetEase's April 2026 Form 20-F, which attributes them to Shining Globe International Limited, owned through a trust settled by Mr. Ding. Each ADS represents five ordinary shares. Dividends received and private assets are not modeled.
Identity facts stored separately for this profile: citizenship China; residence China; ranking attribution China. Attribution reason: Chinese citizen resident in Hangzhou; NetEase is headquartered in Hangzhou and its Nasdaq and Hong Kong listings are financing venues.
Reviewed by Net Worth Leader editorial desk on August 20, 2026. General rules live in the methodology.
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