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Jia Shen
CEO
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AKA Virtual
A serial entrepreneur in-between the San Francisco Bay Area and Tokyo, Jia is focused on offline-to-online technologies, mobile and gaming, and the arbitrage between Asia and the West. A strong technologist by training, he specializes in growth hacking, social mechanics, deep analytics, and gamification. Named one of Businessweek's top twenty-something entrepreneurs, Jia has always had a passion for cutting-edge technologies, and is a die-hard gamer and hacker/programmer. Jia has founded, funded, and operated large startups in the USA, China, and Japan.