Justin Sun

Justin Sun (born July 30, 1990) is an Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Grenada to the WTO, and a Geneva-based Chinese-Grenadian diplomat, entrepreneur, and business executive. He is best known as the Founder of TRON, a leading blockchain DAO ecosystem.

Justin Sun holds an M.A. in East Asia Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in History from Peking University.

Sun studied at the Hupan University and became the cover figure of Yazhou Zhoukan in 2011 and Davos Global Youth Leaders in 2014. In 2015 he was named CNTV's most noteworthy new entrepreneur, and was named in Forbes China 30 Under 30 from 2015 through 2017.

Sun placed the record-breaking $4.6 million bid to have a private lunch with Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett in June 2019, before cancelling it to widespread surprise. The lunch with Buffett eventually occurred in January 2020.

On 11 March 2021, Sun was the underbidder on the historic $69M auction at Christie's New York of the Beeple non-fungible token (NFT) collection Everydays: the First 5000 Days.

In October 2021, Sun participated in a $65 million funding round in Animoca.

In December 2021, Sun announced he was the winner of the New Shepard auction with a bid of $28 million to be the first paying passenger to fly on the Blue Origin vehicle in July 2021. He was not able to fly on this July 2021 mission due to a scheduling conflict. However he purchased (supposedly with the $28 million auction bid, which he paid to Blue Origin in 2021) privately a full flight of New Shepard for himself and intends to select five other participants to fly with him into space in late 2022. Sun also announced that he is a diplomat for Grenada.

In December 2021, Justin Sun retired as a CEO of tron to become a Diplomat for Grenada.

Justin Sun made 3 investments.

Oct 20, 2021 Animoca Brands — Venture Round - $65M

Oct 15, 2021 Ardana — Funding Round - $6.6M

May 20, 2021 Valkyrie — Series A - $10M