Serial Internet entrepreneur: Alivenotdead.com, XMFish.com, Rotten Tomatoes, Design Reactor
China
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- CTO, Co-founder at AliveNotdead.com
- Past
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- COO at XMFish.com / Xiaban.com
- VP/Publisher, Rotten Tomatoes at IGN Entertainment
- CTO, Co-Founder at Rotten Tomatoes
- Technical Director, Co-Founder at Design Reactor
- Webmaster (previously, Site Architect) at Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley
- Education
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- University of California, Berkeley
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Stephen Wang’s Summary
Online entrepreneur with lots of ideas and the desire to create great new useful online tools for myself and my friends. My newest venture is AliveNotDead, a new online community for artists (filmmakers, musicians, performing artists, and more) and their fans.
Stephen Wang’s Specialties:
internet systems integration, consumer-facing online products, online communities, Greater China online industry, film marketing
Stephen Wang’s Experience
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CTO, Co-founder
AliveNotdead.com
(Internet industry)
December 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)
An online community for artists (filmmakers, musicians, performing artists, and more) and their fans allowing communication, interaction, and collaboration. Our mission is to remake the way artists market, distribute, and communicate with their fans starting with Asia.
Teaming up with three other of my Rotten Tomatoes colleagues -- we all love Hong Kong movies and become friends with many great filmmakers, musicians, and other artists in Hong Kong, China, and elsewhere who we hope will find this site as a great new way to gain exposure here in Hong Kong and abroad.
Recently, I've just moved to Beijing to further expand alivenotdead.com's reach into mainland China. -
COO
XMFish.com / Xiaban.com
(Internet industry)
January 2006 — January 2007 (1 year 1 month)
Operating a mainland China city portal helping people find the best places to eat, shop and play. We also operate one of China's most active local forum communities (and the most trafficked web site in Fujian province) with over two-thirds of Xiamen's online population visiting our web sites each week. I moved from the comfortable surroundings of the San Francisco Bay Area to my second favorite city of Xiamen, Fujian, China -- a wonderful coastal city near Taiwan where my two college friends had started a new internet business. I came into a company that had already been around for about a year and a half, but needed someone with my kind of expertise.
The fun challenge here was to work with a completely local Chinese team daily and redesign and grow a site from nearly scratch in a unique, but tremendously heated market. I continue to serve as a director. -
VP/Publisher, Rotten Tomatoes
IGN Entertainment
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
July 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 6 months)
IGN Entertainment, a unit of Fox Interactive Media, Inc. (acquired September 2005), is a leading Internet media and services provider focused on the videogame and entertainment enthusiast markets.
During my time at the head of Rotten Tomatoes, I helped grow traffic from 2.7M unique visitors in the month of June 2004 to 6.2M unique visitors in the month of January 2006 right after I left. We also launched great new features like the Certified Fresh label for the best reviewed movies and the Rotten Tomatoes media player to serve up a huge library of trailers and online video clips. We also conducted our first publicity tour of all of the major and minor movie marketing departments in order to expand our partnerships with the studios.
As a department head for IGN, I was able to be a part of the lead up and aftermath of our acquisition by Fox Interactive Media and ultimately departed so that I could get back to the exciting, new startup life, this time in China. -
CTO, Co-Founder
Rotten Tomatoes
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
April 2000 — July 2004 (4 years 4 months)
Leading entertainment web site (Alexa ranking ~700) acquired by IGN Entertainment in July 2004.
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Technical Director, Co-Founder
Design Reactor
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
June 1997 — April 2000 (2 years 11 months)
Design Reactor is a leading digital communications agency primarily for technology and entertainment clients. During its initial years, the firm was a leading developer for various film and TV clients including ABC.com, DisneyChannel.com, ZoogDisney.com, ToonDisney.com, Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, and more.
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Webmaster (previously, Site Architect)
Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
June 1995 — June 1997 (2 years 1 month)
Stephen Wang’s Education
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University of California, Berkeley
BA , Computer Science , 1993 — 1997
Go Bears!
- Activities and Societies:
- Alpha Phi Omega, Cal Wushu Team, Haas School of Business Webmaster
Additional Information
Stephen Wang’s Websites:
Stephen Wang’s Interests:
film, community web sites, wushu, hiking, badminton
Stephen Wang’s Groups:
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Cal Alumni Association | UC Berkeley -
Alpha Phi Omega - UC Berkeley Chapter
Stephen Wang’s Honors:
2005 HSBC Young Entrepreneurs Award
Articles about me and my past ventures:
http://www.theculturalconnect.com/magazines/asia/2006-02-02/pro
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001956859
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Stephen Wang’s Contact Settings
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