2 | Boxed.com: Chris Cheung

Each week on Rock The Boat, co-hosts Lucia Liu and Lynne Guey take you into the minds of an Asian American entrepreneur, technologist, or creative  and ask them how they view success, what they struggle with, and what it means to rock the boat.

For Episode 2, Lucia speaks with Chris Cheung, one of the co-founders of Boxed.com. 

She speaks with Chris about: 

Breaking rules - lots of them - and how they led him to a path of entrepreneurship
Subverting the system and why it helped him succeed
His desire to build something from nothing with his own two hands
And his hopes for the future

If you’re someone who’s interested in starting something on your own and aren’t afraid to take the unconventional route, Chris’ story should inspire you. 

His bio (via LinkedIn): Chris is a co-founder at Boxed, an e-commerce startup destroying rainforests by delivering convenience and toilet paper in bulk. He is also a partner at Blackgate Ventures, having previously invested in prison social networks and blockchain technology for coffee shops.

Prior to Boxed and Blackgate Ventures, Chris honeymooned at Goldman Sachs before jumping out of a 45-story window to pursue mobile social gaming. As co-founder of Astro Ape SGS, he was somewhat involved in creating money-grubbing social games before being acquired by money-grubbing social gaming giant Zynga. To his dismay, he was named Director of Game Design at Zynga Mobile New York.

In a previous life, Chris worked at a number of Fortune 500 companies in a variety of roles. Blessed with insomnia and fluctuating states of funemployment, he also developed businesses ranging from auctioning clothes off the backs of Korean pop stars, to selling vampire-themed fan apparel to tweens, to defrauding Facebook's nascent ad platform, and all while sleepwalking through his day jobs.

Chris barely earned his Bachelor's in Economics from Johns Hopkins University and is in the midst of seeking a refund. Currently in self-imposed exile having been diagnosed with linkedinitis (symptoms which include compulsively referring to himself in the third person), he spends his leisure time financing companies that may one day grant him mutant powers.

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