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Alongside his former wife Clara Wu Tsai, he owns the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA), the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), the San Diego Seals of the National Lacrosse League (NLL), and has interests in several other professional sports franchises.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"1 January 1964","date":"1964-01-01"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18165291#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Taipei","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56283112"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18165291#P19"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Canada","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16"},{"text":"Taiwan","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q865"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18165291#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"entrepreneur","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131524"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18165291#P106"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"Yale Law School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1143289","start":"1987","end":"1990"},{"text":"Yale College","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2599077","start":"1982","end":"1986"},{"text":"Lawrenceville School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11351132","start":"1977","end":"1982"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18165291#P69"}},{"key":"spouse","label":"Spouse","values":[{"text":"Clara Wu Tsai","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106007202"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18165291#P26"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Asia's Most Influential Taiwan","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115088776","date":"2021"},{"text":"Tatler Most Influential Hong Kong","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115088770","date":"2021"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18165291#P166"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Tsai","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18165291"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Joseph Tsai born?","a":"Joseph Tsai was born on 1 January 1964 in Taipei."},{"q":"Where did Joseph Tsai study?","a":"Joseph Tsai was educated at Yale Law School, Yale College, Lawrenceville School."}],"related":[{"name":"Changpeng Zhao","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/changpeng-zhao"},{"name":"Daryl Katz","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/daryl-katz"},{"name":"Galen Weston","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/galen-weston"},{"name":"Jeffrey Skoll","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jeffrey-skoll"},{"name":"Jim Pattison","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jim-pattison"},{"name":"Joseph Lubin","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/joseph-lubin"},{"name":"Lawrence Stroll","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/lawrence-stroll"},{"name":"Li Ka-shing","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/li-ka-shing"},{"name":"Stewart Butterfield","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/stewart-butterfield"},{"name":"Drake","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/drake"},{"name":"Arthur Irving","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/arthur-irving"},{"name":"Barry Sherman","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/barry-sherman"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/joseph-tsai-4028631d03.jpg","width":469,"height":620,"license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","credit":"WOWyerrr","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Tsai_at_the_2024_New_York_Liberty_Ticker_Tape_Parade_(cropped).jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Joseph Tsai","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Tsai","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q18165291","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18165291","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Joseph Tsai at the 2024 New York Liberty Ticker Tape Parade (cropped).jpg by WOWyerrr (CC BY-SA 4.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Tsai_at_the_2024_New_York_Liberty_Ticker_Tape_Parade_(cropped).jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Joseph Tsai, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Joseph Tsai at the 2024 New York Liberty Ticker Tape Parade (cropped).jpg — WOWyerrr, CC BY-SA 4.0.","cite":"\"Joseph Tsai\". DigiNepal. Last updated 30 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/joseph-tsai. Retrieved 5 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-30T06:22:56Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-05","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/joseph-tsai","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/joseph-tsai","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/joseph-tsai?lang=ne"}}