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Race Capital is proud to present How to Build & Scale an Open Source Company & learn from founder & early investors in BEA Systems, Agora.io, Databricks, etc.nDespite the premise of open-source software distribution being free, companies like Databricks, Agora.io, BEA Systems, RedHat, MongoDB, GitLab, & Elastic have already become unicorns multiple times over with open source at their core.nHow do you build a vibrant & trusted developer community while finding your way to commercialize into a successful company?nIn this talk, you will meet & learn how Alfred Chuang turned JSEE into BEA Systems, & how Tony Zhao transformed WebRTC into Agora.io. Additionally, you'll hear their thoughts on how GenAI & LLM will change the open-source & enterprise world.nSpeakers include:nnTony Zhao is the founder & CEO at Agora. Founded in 2013, Agora is the #1 real-time interactive voice & video engagement platform for the enterprise. Tony previously served as the CTO & director of YY (renamed JOYY), a video-based social network listed on the Nasdaq.nPrior to joining YY, Tony was the founder & CTO at NeoTasks. Before NeoTasks, he served as a senior engineer at WebEx, where he was responsible for developing audio & video calling functions & designing backend architecture. Mr. Zhao is a graduate at Peking University.nnAlfred Chuang - General Partner at Race Capital, Founder & CEO of BEA Systems & Seed Investor in DatabricksnAlfred Chuang is is the founder & general partner at Race Capital. Recognized by Andreessen Horowitz as the Silicon Valley CEOs CEO, Alfred is an accomplished entrepreneur & venture capitalist.nRace Capital is a world class venture capital firm for all things enterprise & software infrastructure with many industry transformational portfolio companies including Databricks, Vectara, Lightning Network, Opaque, Zeet, & many more to come. Prior to Race, Alfred co-founded & took BEA Systems public (Nasdaq: BEAS). In addition, Alfred became BEAs chairman of the board where he remained until BEA was sold to Oracle in 2008 for $8.6B. BEA was the fastest enterprise technology company to reach revenue of USD$1B.nPrior to BEA, Alfred spent eight & a half years at Sun Microsystems During his tenure, Sun grew from less than 1000 to 60,000 people strong with revenue over $6B. Alfred led product development, network infrastructure, systems architecture, & expanded Suns business to Asia.nAlfreds notable awards include C/F Silicon Valley Philanthropist of the Year, SD Forum Visionary Award, CIO Magazine 20/20 Vision Award Honoree & Community Star from Asian Americans for Community Involvement, eChina Forum Silicon Valley Award Honoree, & Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist. University of San Francisco Presidents Ambassador, UC Davis Outstanding Alumnus Award, UC Davis Distinguished Engineering Alumni Medal.nAlfred is an independent advisor at the University of San Francisco School of Engineering, Member of the UC Davis Chancellors Board of Advisors, Member of the School of Business Deans Committee, City University of Hong Kong, & Member of the School of Engineering Industrial Advisory Committee, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology.nAlfred received a B.S. in computer science from the University of San Francisco & a masters degree in computer science with specialization in distributed data management from the University of California, Davis. Alfred also attended St. Andrews College & Wah Yan College.nAbout Race CapitalnnRace Capital is an early-stage venture fund focused on investing in exceptional founders who are building market-transforming companies in the data, enterprise, infrastructure, & fintech sectors. Our team are seed investors in Databricks, Solana, Agora.io, & many other great companies. For more information, visit https://race.capital/.
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