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Eric Ly (Thich Vi Ly) was born on 15 January, 1969 in Saigon, South Vietnam, is an Eric Thich Vi Ly is entrepreneur and investor entrepreneur and investor. Discover Eric Ly's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 55 years old?
Popular As |
Thich Vi Ly |
Occupation |
Technologist, Investor |
Age |
55 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Capricorn |
Born |
15 January, 1969 |
Birthday |
15 January |
Birthplace |
Saigon, South Vietnam |
Nationality |
Vietnam
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He is a member of famous entrepreneur with the age 55 years old group.
Eric Ly Height, Weight & Measurements
At 55 years old, Eric Ly height not available right now. We will update Eric Ly's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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Dating & Relationship status
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Eric Ly Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Eric Ly worth at the age of 55 years old? Eric Ly’s income source is mostly from being a successful entrepreneur. He is from Vietnam. We have estimated Eric Ly's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
Salary in 2024 |
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Net Worth in 2023 |
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Salary in 2023 |
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entrepreneur |
Eric Ly Social Network
Timeline
Eric Thich Vi Ly (born January 15, 1969) is an American entrepreneur and investor.
Ly was co-founder of LinkedIn, a social networking site designed specifically for the business community, where he served as its founding chief technology officer.
He is currently the CEO and founder of a blockchain based trust protocol Hub, as well as the CEO and co-founder of KarmaCheck providing candidate's background checks.
Ly was born in Saigon, Vietnam, and emigrated to the United States in 1975 as a result of the Vietnam War.
He lived in San Francisco, California, for some years, and when his parents found jobs in Silicon Valley, his family moved to Sunnyvale, California.
Ly attended Homestead High School, where he applied his interest in computers to journalism and the on-campus newspaper, The Epitaph.
Through a sponsorship from Apple Inc., he transformed production methods for the publication, making Homestead one of the first schools in the country to use desktop publishing technology to publish its newspaper on the newly introduced Macintosh computers.
Ly attended Stanford University and volunteered as a science writer for the Stanford Daily in addition to his studies.
Ly was inspired by professor Terry Winograd's perspective that computers ultimately serve as communications tools for people.
Ly graduated with distinction in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science in Symbolic Systems and as a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Ly went on to earn a Master of Science in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab in 1993 with a research thesis ("Chatter: A Conversational Telephone Agent") on combining speech-user interfaces and artificial-intelligence agents.
Ly returned to Stanford University to get his PhD in Computer Science but he would later drop out of the program.
Ly started his professional career in technical positions at Steve Jobs' NeXT (acquired by Apple Inc.), IBM, Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle), and General Magic.
In 1995, Ly co-founded Netmosphere, a software company enabling project management collaboration utilizing Internet technologies such as Java.
Menlo Ventures invested in the firm, which was subsequently acquired by Critical Path, Inc. In 2000, Ly co-founded a mobile software company called Tresidder Networks in which Industry Ventures invested.
In 2002, Ly co-founded LinkedIn with Reid Hoffman, a Stanford schoolmate, and several other co-founders, including Jean-Luc Vaillant, Allen Blue, and Konstantin Guericke.
In 2007, Ly launched Presdo with $35,000 (~$ in ) of his own money.
The company first built a meeting scheduler chatbot described as "pure, refined, focused, with a fairly deep understanding of how real people, not just 'users,' think, act and want from their online apps."
On the suggestion of Loic Le Meur and others, Ly was persuaded to adapt the meeting scheduler to conferences where it could help attendees arrange face-to-face meetings.
The technology evolved into a mobile app called Presdo Match, "that facilitates networking" and "provides a searchable directory of attendee profiles (imported from LinkedIn when desirable), makes connection recommendations, and highlights which contacts from existing networks are in attendance so users can send messages and schedule meetings with other attendees."
From 2008 to 2011, Ly served as a venture partner for Wellington Partners, a Munich, Germany-based venture capital firm whose investments include Xing and Spotify.
Presdo Match was launched in 2010 at the LeWeb conference, "the biggest European Internet conference."
Ly subsequently expanded his marketing efforts for Presdo Match globally.
Ly has spoken at many event-industry conferences on the topic of social technology and its role in live events, including The Meetings Technology Expo, Web Summit, Expo!
Expo!, and the Society of Independent Show Organizer's CEO Summit.
When Microsoft acquired LinkedIn in 2016 for $26.2B, it was the world's "largest social networking site focused on the working world" with more than 400 million registered users.
As LinkedIn's founding CTO, Ly "helped create some of its core product features, which enabled the company to reach profitability and a quickly growing user base."