Billionaire's 28-Year-Old Son Picks Digital Music Empire Over Palm-Oil Riches

Yoolim Lee

Yoolim Lee of Bloomberg News at Bloomberg Seoul in South Korea, on Wednesday, July 30, 2025. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho HIT

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He's learned a lot from blues legend B.B. King.

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Kuok Meng Ru didn't spend much time with his billionaire father when he was growing up.

Kuok Meng Ru is working to turn startup BandLab into a global cloud-based community for people to create, collaborate and share music.

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