I Wish I Knew this When I Was a Young Entrepreneur_Silicon Valley Asian Business Talk_Alfred_Chuang

Thank you, Roger. Thank you for inviting me. This is my honor and really it's a privilege to be here today. Thanks Haist and FKS Tha to actually have me speak today. I think the last time I actually spoke at a Haist event was maybe 22 years ago, which someone just found it. I think I went to a dinner in Catino and I spoke at the dinner. It was very well attended and so I have extremely fond memories and it's been a long time and so far to be back. So I was born in Hong Kong and I graduated from University of San Francisco with a computer science degree. And then I went to UC Davis for my graduate studies and then I got my master's degree from them. And then halfway through my PhD program I quit and I went to work for Sun. I was at Sun for about just under nine years and I founded my own company called BEA Systems. BEA was a very successful venture. We went public in four years and pivoted the company into the web space in the late '90s and reached $58 billion in market cap and eventually got to just under $2 billion in revenue and sold to Oracle for just under $9 billion during the financial crisis. And then I've done other companies and been very active in investing in early stage companies for the past decade plus. And so about five years ago I started a firm with two other partners focusing on seed stage investment in infrastructure technology. So that's what I've been very focused on in the past few years. I'm having a grand time. This is like 2000 all over again for this AI era. So very thankful to be here. I wish I knew this when I was a young entrepreneur.