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| San Jose Mercury News
- February 6, 2001 |
- SVPLAYERS - A LOOK AT THE MOVERS & SHAKERS OF SILICON VALLEY
- K. Bobby Chao
- DragonVenture, Inc.
- Title: Founder, Chairman
- Age: 51
- City: San Jose
- What does your company do?
- We are an incubation and investment consulting firm bridging
the U.S. and greater China markets.
- Last job: General partner
of Technology Associates Management Co., a venture capital firm.
- Education: M.S. in physics,
Georgia State University; M.S. in aeronautical engineering from
Stanford
- Hometown:
Taipei, Taiwan
- What do you like most about your job?
The pace, the deal-making and the idea that my company is making
history as the Chinese marketplace opens its doors to the world
for the first time.
- What's the biggest risk you ever took?
Making the decision to co-found Cadence Design Systems. At the
time, myself, along with the other four co-founders, had stable,
well-paying jobs as engineers for a large corporation. We had
no money, no VC support and no customers when we started Cadence.
- What's the worst management mistake
you ever made?
Selling off 51 percent interest in VA Linux 10 months before it
filed for IPO. The company had the highest first-day opening price
in history.
- If you could be any movie or TV character,
who would you be?
Chow Yun Fat -- he's tall, Chinese and he has a head full of hair.
- What's your favorite escape?
Vigorous downhill skiing with my childrenin Squaw Valley.
- What do most people not know about you?
I was a concert violinist for the Taipei Symphony Orchestra.
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