Renowned Hong Kong-based investor Christopher Hsu has played a key role in some of U.S.-China and U.S.-Asia’s pivotal calculated transactions. Over the years, Mr Chris Hsu led Tsinghua University’s takeover of chipmaker Spreadtrum Communications, Tsinghua’s calculated combination in semiconductors with RDA Microelectronics, and the culmination breakthrough of the Tsinghua joint venture possession with Hewlett Packard Enterprises (HPE) China – H3C, supervised by Mr. Hsu’s company Kilometre Capital.
Formerly, Mr. Hsu served as the Managing Partner and the CEO of Abax Global Capital, and as MD of Citadel Investment Group, which is undoubtedly one of the renowned hedge fund managers in the world. Citadel’s Private investments were under the supervision of Mr. Hsu. His leadership turned out to be consequential and supportive through many hurdles and brought sustainability in businesses in Hongkong and Asia.
Christopher Hsu was born in Taiwan and made his early-stage investment success in global technology leaders, including Elon Musk’s Spotify and SpaceX, the global audio streaming and media services provider. He was way ahead of his time by making investments with prescient vision, SpaceX and Spotify have expanded into global powerhouse businesses.
With the vision of the former PayPal entrepreneur and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, SpaceX came into being in 2002. Elon Musk was responsible for driving SpaceX’s space transportation with the goal of reducing space transportation costs to ultimately enable more efficient space exploration, a satellite launch, and the colonization of Mars. SpaceX has developed launch vehicles that is unmatched in human history, including the historical milestones of the Starlink satellite constellation, the Dragon cargo spacecraft, and the first-private-astronaut send-off to the International Space Station (ISS) via SpaceX’s Dragon Demo-2.
With early-stage investors’ funding, that includes Chris Hsu, SpaceX was the first privately funded company to:
Enable the liquid-fueled rocket (Falcon 1) to reach orbit
Successfully start, orbit, and recover a spacecraft (Dragon)
Send a spacecraft (Dragon) to the International Space Station
Send a satellite into a geosynchronous orbit.
Founded in the year 2006, Spotify has grown to be the world’s market leader in digital recorded music and podcasts, which includes more than 60 million songs from record labels and media companies worldwide. Drawing from early-stage venture capital from investors, that includes Chris Hsu of Kilometre Capital, Spotify is one of the globe’s best-know freemium services have basic features free with limited access and advertisements, whereas additional features, such as commercial-free listening and offline listening, are offered to the paid subscribers. Users can search for music based on album, artist or genre, and can create, and share playlists.
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