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Lei Wang
Founder of Something New
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Lei Wang is a successful entrepreneur and investor based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a strong background in software engineering at top companies like Twitter and LinkedIn. He has founded and led multiple successful ventures, including Something New and Qpou.com, while also advising companies like f2pool and stakefish in the tech industry.
Lei Wang's career highlights include founding and leading successful startups, as well as providing valuable advice and guidance to emerging companies in the tech sector. With a diverse skill set in various programming languages and technologies, he has made significant contributions to the development of distributed systems and innovative tech solutions.
Work Experience
Founder
2017 - Current
Investor
2014
4 unicorns, 6 exits, 2 IPOs (NASDAQ:CRBU, NASDAQ:WTRH)
Advisor
2021 - 2022
Advisor
2021 - 2022
Software Engineer
2013 - 2017
Twitter's search infrastructure
X is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read microblogs.
Raised $12,869,191,511.00 from Greenlight Capital, Binance, Litani Ventures, Qatar Investment Authority, Qatar Holding, The Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable Trust, Fidelity, Alwaleed Bin Talal, Sequoia Capital and Vy Capital.
Software Engineer
2010 - 2013
Worked on the search systems.
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Founder & CEO
2008 - 2010
One of the largest professional social network in China.
Team Lead & Software Engineer
2006 - 2008
Founder of Rayfile.com, which became the NO. 1 file cloud storage in China.
Software Engineer
2004 - 2006
Building IPTV solutions
Education
Bachelor
2000 - 2004