ESS Info.
Topic: To Young Entrepreneurs: Frequent Encountered Setbacks and the Insights
Time: 19:30-21:00 Feb 23rd
Zoom: 975 3857 8369 Passcode: ESS
Speaker: Chen Zhao
As the pressure of social employment continues to intensify, many young graduates and even some young people at school have joined the army of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Young people have become an indispensable part of innovation and entrepreneurship nowadays. However, the road of young people’s innovation and entrepreneurship still faces many difficulties in today’s society. For instance, capital, experience, technology, and team are some of the main challenges fresh graduates face in my country’s colleges and universities to start a business on their own.
In this ESS sharing session, we are honoured to invite Chen Zhao, the managing partner of Plug and Play China, to analyze the frequent encountered setbacks faced by young entrepreneurs on their entrepreneurial journey and share his insights and solutions regarding those problems.
We are looking forward to your attendance!
Speaker Info.
Chen is currently spearheading Plug and Play Tech Center’s startup accelerator and investment activities in China. He manages a team that is specialized in both growing local technology startups and helping cutting-edge global companies enter into and expand their businesses in China market.
Since 2015, Plug and Play China has been operating in 8 cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chongqing, etc.). Chen’s led and participated in investment and cross-border acceleration of over 100 startups in both China and the U.S., including Flexiv Robotics, Hexaflake AIGPU, ZifiSense, Authing, Xpower, Archifiction, Zhen Robotics, Yours Robotics, NRJ NanoTech, King Weather, Dragon Testing, AutoX, etc.
Prior to Plug and Play, Chen worked as the team lead and Sr. Software Engineer at Investment Technology Group (NYSE: ITG), where he led a development team in designing and implementing various Equity and Foreign Exchange trading analytics applications for institutional investment firms. Chen holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management, MS from USC, and B.S. from Beihang University in Computer Science.