Min-Liang Tan was born in Singapore in 1977. As a child he pirated the game Wasteland. Years later he gave $10,000 to the Wasteland 2 Kickstarter to atone, and the developers wrote him in as a character.
He studied law at NUS and worked as an advocate and solicitor at the Supreme Court. In 2005 he and Robert Krakoff relaunched Razer, which had gone under with its parent Karna in 2001. Li Ka-shing and Temasek backed the new company.
Razer's DeathAdder mouse passed 20 million units by June 2024. The company bought THX in 2016 and launched the Razer Phone in 2017. It listed in Hong Kong under code 1337 on 14 November 2017 and rose about 18% on day one.
Razer shut its Game Store in 2019 and Razer Pay in 2021, and it was taken private in May 2022. In 2025 it opened an AI Center of Excellence in Singapore and bought StreamElements.