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Wayne Chang
Wayne Chang (born August 3, 1983) is an American entrepreneur, angel investor, film producer, and philanthropist. He is best known for founding Crashlytics, a startup acquired by Twitter in 2013, creating a filesharing network called i2hub, making various seed investments, and his lawsuit against the Winklevoss brothers. Early life Chang was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and grew up extremely poor on a farm in rural Taiwan. At age 6, he immigrated to the United States. However, in the states, things weren't that much better. He didn't have his own bed until he was 16. Despite that, Chang displayed a natural talent for technology. He wrote his first software program on the Apple IIe at age 7. He was involved with the original Napster, the first peer-to-peer filesharing platform, while he attended high school in Haverhill, Massachusetts. In 2005, Newsweek profiled Chang for his abilities in technology. Education Chang enrolled as an undergraduate degree student at University of Mass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taipei
Taipei (), officially Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Located in Northern Taiwan, Taipei City is an enclave of the municipality of New Taipei City that sits about southwest of the northern port city of Keelung. Most of the city rests on the Taipei Basin, an ancient lakebed. The basin is bounded by the relatively narrow valleys of the Keelung and Xindian rivers, which join to form the Tamsui River along the city's western border. The city of Taipei is home to an estimated population of 2,646,204 (2019), forming the core part of the Taipei–Keelung metropolitan area, which includes the nearby cities of New Taipei and Keelung with a population of 7,047,559, the 40th most-populous urban area in the world—roughly one-third of Taiwanese citizens live in the metro district. The name "Taipei" can refer either to the whole metropolitan area or just the city itself. Taipei has been the seat of the ROC central government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benchmark (venture Capital Firm)
Benchmark is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco that provides seed money to startups. History The firm's most successful investment was a 1997 investment of $6.7 million in eBay for 22.1% of the company. In 2011, it invested $12 million for an 11% stake in Uber, worth $7 billion in 2019. The firm's most infamous investment was in WeWork, the troubled office rental social networking company. On April 1, 2012, Benchmark became WeWork's first major investor when it led WeWork’s $17 million Series-A seed funding. Companies funded by the firm include Dropbox, Twitter, Uber, Snapchat, Instagram, Discord,Takahashi"Fates Forever mobile game maker Hammer & Chisel raises funding from Benchmark and Tencent" ''Venture Beat'', February 10, 2015. Domo, New Relic, Nextdoor, Stitch Fix, WeWork, Yelp, Zendesk, Zillow and Zipcar. Partner structure Benchmark is noted for creating the first equal ownership and compensation structure for its partners. The "maverick" firm differs fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimber Lockhart
Kimber Lockhart is the Chief Technology Officer at One Medical Group. Previously, she was the Senior Director of Web Application Engineering at Box. Prior to joining Box, she co-founded Increo, a secure web-based document sharing and review service. Increo was acquired by Box in October, 2009. She holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University. Education and development of Increo Lockhart holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University. In 2007, during her junior year, she started the software project Increo with Jeff Seibert. The initial prototype was IdeaCV, an "idea feedback engine" which was created for a class assignment. The group continued to build and test it throughout the year while getting feedback from users. In May of her senior year, the idea had developed into a more general "document feedback" concept. The team had acquired enough adoption to plan ahead for graduation and raise seed funding. In June, they moved into an office and Lockhart too ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katrina Lake
Katrina Lake (born December 24, 1982) is an American businesswoman who is the Founder and former CEO of Stitch Fix, a fashion-based subscription service. Stitch Fix was established in 2011 in San Francisco and went public in 2017. In 2017, Lake became the youngest woman to take a company public at age 34 and was the only woman in 2017 to lead an initial public offering in technology. She was surpassed by Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2021, who took Bumble (company), Bumble public at age 31. As of November 2017, Lake held a 16.6% stake in Stitch Fix. In 2017, ''Forbes'' named Lake one of America's richest self-made women. Early life and education Lake was born on December 24, 1982, in San Francisco. Her mother is a Japanese immigrant who taught in the public school system, and her father was a doctor at UCSF and the University of Minnesota. She initially wanted to become a doctor before she became an entrepreneur. She began on the pre-med course but became very interested in economics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katie Jacobs Stanton
Katie Jacobs Stanton (born October 17, 1970) is an American executive. She is the Founder and General Partner of Moxxie Ventures. Prior to starting Moxxie Ventures, Stanton was the CMO of Color Genomics and the Vice President of Global Media at Twitter. Stanton was on Forbes list as the 56th most powerful woman in the world. She sits on the list for People Magazine's 25 Most Intriguing People. Stanton has also been featured in Vogue and Fortune Magazine. She worked at Twitter from July 2010 through January 2016. Stanton sits on the Board of Directors for Vivendi and Time. In January 2010 she was appointed the Special Advisor to the Office of Innovation at the U.S. State Department, where she made extensive use of Twitter. Previously, Barack Obama appointed her to the newly created Director of Citizen Participation position. Stanton is a veteran of Google, where her work has included Google Moderator, Google Finance, and the Open Social initiative. Previously, she was a producer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Kan
Justin Kan (born July 16, 1983) is an American internet entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder of live video platforms Justin.tv and Twitch, as well as the mobile social video application Socialcam. He is also the cofounder and former CEO of law-tech company Atrium. He was formerly a partner at Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator. His attempt to broadcast his entire life at Justin.tv, which he named after himself, popularized the term "lifecasting". Kan also started a Reddit-style electronic music discovery platform, The Drop. In March 2019, along with YouTube co-founder Steve Chen he became advisor to Theta, a peer-to-peer video streaming platform that uses blockchain technology. Career Justin.tv In 2007, Justin Kan and partners Emmett Shear, Michael Seibel and Kyle Vogt started Justin.tv, a 24–7 live video feed of Kan's life, broadcast via a webcam attached to his head. Kan was 23 years old at the time. Kan's "lifecasting" lasted about eight months. Kan' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordan Fliegel
Jordan Fliegel (born 1986) is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist, focused on the sports industry. Fliegel is currently Managing Director of thTechstars Sports Acceleratorin Indianapolis, which he launched in 2019, and the Techstars NYC Accelerator. Through the two accelerators Fliegel invests in 25 startups annually, and provides access to 200+ mentors and hands-on support. His accelerators have over 50 portfolio companies, including Ergattawhich raised $30M at a $200M valuationin 2021. Fliegel is an investor in over 250 startups as co-founder and Managing Partner oFounders First and is on the Advisory Board of several high-growth startups, includinFight CampanBotkeeper Fliegel was previously co-CEO of Draft.com ("DRAFT"), a venture-backed fantasy sports company headquartered in NYC. In 2017, hsold DRAFT for $48M to Paddy Power Betfair Fliegel was Founder and CEO of sports coaching company CoachUp.com, backed by $14M in venture-capital and headquartered in BostonNBA M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Orlowski
Jeff Orlowski-Yang is an American filmmaker. He is best known for both directing and producing the Emmy Award-winning documentary ''Chasing Ice'' (2012) and ''Chasing Coral'' (2017) and for directing ''The Social Dilemma'' about the damaging societal impact of social media. Life and career Born and raised in Staten Island, New York, Orlowski-Yang attended Stuyvesant High School where he served as editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, ''The Spectator''. At the age of 18, Orlowski-Yang moved to California to study anthropology at Stanford University. In his senior year at Stanford, he joined environmental photographer James Balog's Extreme Ice Survey, a time-lapse photography project monitoring glacier retreat around the world. Hired first as the team's videographer, he eventually went on to direct the documentary ''Chasing Ice'' based on Balog's work. The feature-length documentary received international acclaim, screening on all seven continents and capturing more than 40 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Costolo
Richard William Costolo (pronounced: ) (born September 10, 1963) is an American businessman. He was the CEO of Twitter, Inc. from 2010 to 2015; he also served as the COO before becoming CEO. He took over as CEO from Evan Williams in October 2010. On June 11, 2015, it was announced that Costolo would step down as CEO on July 1, 2015, and would be replaced by Twitter co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey on an interim basis until the Board of Directors could find a replacement. On August 8, 2015, ''The New York Times'' reported that Costolo would be leaving Twitter's Board of Directors by the end of the year or when a new CEO was appointed. Career Costolo was born in Royal Oak, Michigan. In 1985, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer and communication sciences from the University of Michigan. Upon graduation, he decided not to accept offers from technology companies and instead moved to Chicago to work in improvisational comedy. After his improv career in Chicago, Costo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Cancel
David Cancel is an American entrepreneur, investor, and founder of several software companies. He is the CEO and founder of Drift, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company which creates messaging software for businesses. Education Cancel attended Queens College and dropped out before attaining a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Accounting. Career Cancel was Chief Product Officer at Internet marketing company HubSpot from 2011 and 2014. He joined HubSpot after the acquisition of his previous company Performable for $20 million. While at HubSpot, Cancel hired most of the HubSpot engineering team, growing from 20 to 100 engineers. HubSpot CEO and co-founder Brian Halligan has called Cancel a “visionary product development leader” and at the time of the Performable acquisition, said “we now have the best product development team in B2B software.” Prior to Performable, Cancel was the co-founder and CTO of Lookery, the founder and CTO of Compete.com, which was acq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Lee (entrepreneur)
Brian Sung Lee (born March 15, 1971) is a Korean-American entrepreneur who co-founded LegalZoom, Legalzoom.com, ShoeDazzle, ShoeDazzle.com, and The Honest Company. Professional life Lee was an attorney with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and a former manager at Deloitte. Lee attended Servite High School in Anaheim, graduated with a B.A. in Economics/Business from UCLA, and received his J.D. from UCLA School of Law. Fame with startups Brian Lee is known for co-founding startups with celebrities. Legalzoom His first startup, Legalzoom.com, was with Robert Shapiro (lawyer), Robert Shapiro.First online dating, then online wedding planning, now this (22 January 2004). ''USA Today''. Last accessed 17 April 2009 Legalzoom is an online legal docum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April Underwood
April Underwood was the chief product officer at Slack. Before joining Slack, she held positions at Twitter, Google, and WeatherBill. She is a co-founder of #Angels, an investment group for early-stage start-ups. Education Underwood graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2001 with a BBA in information systems, and later received an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. While at Berkeley, she completed an MBA internship at Apple. Career Underwood has held various positions in the technology industry at companies including Intel, Deloitte, and Travelocity. She joined Google in 2007 as a senior partner technology manager, where she led content acquisition and monetization strategies. She then joined Twitter in 2010, where she was a product manager on features including the "tweet" and "follow" buttons, and led the creation of the Ads API. She also managed search partnerships with Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google, and directed Twitter's business development t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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