T H R E E S C R E W - U P S F R O M A S E R I A L E N T R E P R E N E U R

S T E P H E N W A N G

A B O U T M E

• Born in USA, grew up in Maryland and Los Angeles

• Started programming at 12

• Comp Sci at U.C. Berkeley, ’97

• Design Reactor

• Rotten Tomatoes

• Moved to China in 2005

• Alive Not Dead

• Senior PM at WeChat

C O - F O U N D E R S

• Lost my co-founders from first and last companies

• Self-Assessment for Co-Founders

• A Word about Respect

U N S E E N F O R C E S

• Rotten Tomatoes: Dotcom crash and 9/11

• Alive Not Dead: Blocked on the Great Firewall

• Test for Resilience

T I M I N G

• Rotten Tomatoes: Sold too early

• Alive Not Dead: Too late

• When is the right time?

Find me @swang75