Euwyn Poon is a Singapore-born entrepreneur who founded

Spin Spin or spinning most often refers to: * Spinning (textiles), the creation of yarn or thread by twisting fibers together, traditionally by hand spinning * Spin, the rotation of an object around a central axis * Spin (propaganda), an intentionally b ...

, a shared electric scooter company based in San Francisco that was acquired by Ford in 2018, and is the founding partner of venture capital firm Moso Capital. Poon graduated from

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

in 2004 at the age of 18 with a degree in Computer Science and

Cornell Law School Cornell Law School is the law school of Cornell University, a private Ivy League university in Ithaca, New York. One of the five Ivy League law schools, it offers four law degree programs, JD, LLM, MSLS and JSD, along with several dual-deg ...

in 2007. After earning a J.D. from Cornell Law School, he practiced M&A and securities law at

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is an international white shoe law firm headquartered in New York City. The firm specializes in litigation and corporate practices, particularly mergers and acquisitions, with over 1,000 attorneys in 11 offices worl ...

from 2007 to 2009.

Early Startups

In 2010, Poon founded Opzi which later became the software platform behind the First Round Network.

Spin

In 2017, Poon and co-founders Derrick Ko and Zaizhuang Cheng started

, which became the first company to launch a shared micro-mobility solution in the United States when it launched orange-colored bicycles with GPS-enabled locks in Seattle in July. In early 2018, Spin introduced electric scooters to its fleet of shared vehicles, which resulted in rapid growth of the business until its acquisition by Ford in November. Spin operated as the micro-mobility unit of Ford as part of Ford Smart Mobility until March 2022, when it was acquired by Berlin's Tier Mobility, a leading shared mobility company.

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