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    Stephen Liu

    Stephen Liu

    Managing Director @ a2Collective.ai Entrepreneur @privy Capital, Mentor @spark-79 Labs, EIR @lmu

    Marketing Los Angeles University of Souther...
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    Experience
    Rotten Tomatoes
    Exit
    Rotten Tomatoes
    Advisor
    SparkLabs
    SparkLabs
    Mentor
    M8
    M8
    CMO (Chief Matchmaking Officer) & Co-Founder 2017 - Present (almost 9 years)
    Bootstrapped a mobile matchmaking startup featured at Techcrunch Disrupt. Raised $700k+ in Seed investment – structured pro forma financials, capitalization tables and debt/equity... more offerings and closed over 25 high net worth investors.
    Founder
    Reelplay.com, APEX.org, PrivyCircle.com
    Employee
    M8
    Investor
     
    Incubator
     
    Advisor
    Rotten Tomatoes
    Attorney
     
    Board Member
     
    Mentor
    SparkLabs
    Member
     
    Acquired
     
     
    Projects
    M8 Launches IOS app at Techcrunch Disrupt
    M8 IOS app
    Forget algorithms. M8 is a dating app powered by human matchmakers. And these aren’t just any matchmakers, they’re your friends and friends of friends.
    Linda Kim
    With Linda Kim
     
    Education
     
    About
    Achievements

    Most recently, I bootstrapped a mobile matchmaking app featured at Techcrunch Disrupt, TrendHunter, Yahoo, and HackerNoon. Previously, I created a luxury lifestyle brand targeting transpacific affluentials which developed brand activation partnerships with Toyota, Chase Bank, Lexus, LVMH Hennessy, City of Hope and HiteJinro. Before that, I led the turnaround of a China-based textile manufacturer in the apparel, promotional, sports, and uniform markets and sold it at an above-average multiple. Prior, I launched a Softbank-backed streaming video-enabled “Forbes Top 200 B2B” digital marketplace for the film and television industry.

    I started out as a private banker and strategy consultant. I’m probably best known as the founder of APEX, a community service and professional development association of millennial professionals that just celebrated our 25th anniversary.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Business Development Sales Business Operations Team Building
    Locations
    Los Angeles Hong Kong Seoul Shanghai Tokyo Singapore New York City San Francisco Taipei Beijing
     
    Q&A
    If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?

    I bought my first bitcoin in Jan 2017. I'm intrigued about the future of blockchain technology and it's potential applications.

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