Pinduoduo - Wikipedia Pinduoduo was founded in 2015 by Chinese businessman and software engineer Colin Huang and initially focused on the agriculture industry [5][6] It developed at a time when Alibaba and JD had significantly consolidated the Chinese e-commerce market and many analysts believed there was limited room for new market entrants [7]: 45 On 7 June 2018, Legal Evening News reported that Pinduoduo