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Originally Posted by ChiliConCarnage

Sea Limited

This was up 4-500% last year so it may pull back a lot on anything really. It has a ton of debt and doesn't make money so it's very speculative. Tencent has a large stake in this company

Shopee Ecommerce - Runs mostly in SE Asia but trying in Latin America a bit. It's Amazon-style not Ebay. Logistics, shipping, Ecommerce-as-a-service for other businesses, selling those businesses data, etc. It's probably more social media-ized than what we're used to. It's #1 or 2 in most of the countries. There are some local competitors and then Lazada. Lazada was backed by Alibaba and they finally took controlling interest

Digital Payment/wallet - Ecommerce and digital payments have been my favorite place to put money for years. They have SeaPay, people use it to interact with them but I feel like it's the Kohl's card. They don't break it out in the numbers. Feels like a throw away though the category sounds enticing. Hard part about not regularly using the product.

Gaming - This is their largest revenue source. Garena is a gaming platform like Steam, I guess, but more social media elements and eSports. They create some games and publish some as well. Free Fire has been a big hit in parts of the world. This is where the Tencent link really pays off. Tencent is the largest game publisher in the world. Sea has an exclusive deal to host their games on the Garena platform.

I bought Sea Limited at $64.14. Currently trading at $232.