Min-Liang Tan is CEO of Razer, which hit $1.2 billion in sales in 2020.
Min-Liang Tan is CEO of Razer, which hit $1.2 billion in sales in 2020.
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Min-Liang Tan: How Razer weathered the pandemic and hit $1.2B in sales

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Razer reported last week that it hit $1.2 billion in 2020 revenues, up 48% from a year earlier. It also turned a slim profit ahead of plan, and it announced its how it wants to become a carbon-neutral sustainable company in the next decade.

Those are some big milestones for Min-Liang Tan, cofounder, chairman, and CEO of the gaming peripherals maker that has transformed itself into a “global lifestyle brand for gamers.” I spoke with Tan about the past year, which started with the company announcing that it would use its contractors to make a million masks to help with pandemic relief. That was an odd move for a company whose motto is “by gamers, for gamers.”

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.