With repute as one of Asia’s leading private equity advisors and investors, Chris Hsu leads Hong Kong-based Kilometre Capital as CEO and CIO. Mr. Hsu negotiated landmark deals including cross-border and technology precedents. Among Chris Hsu’s landmark investments has been his speculation, early-stage stakes in global digital leaders Spotify and SpaceX. Investing early with a predictive perspective, Spotify and SpaceX have expanded into market-leading global businesses that have changed the human experience.
Mr. Christopher Hsu supplied early-stage capital to SpaceX, abbreviated for Space Exploration Technologies Corp, the world’s leading space transportation services and private aerospace manufacturer company. Established by Paypal and Tesla founder Elon Musk in 2002, SpaceX has realized its initial-stage goal of reducing space transportation costs. SpaceX has started several launch vehicles, the Starlink satellite constellation, the Dragon cargo spacecraft, and flown humans to the International Space Station on the SpaceX Dragon 2.
In the case of Christopher Hsu’s initial stage investment in Spotify, the global music streaming Company has developed to be the world’s market leader in digital recorded podcasts and music, including more than 60 million songs from media companies and record labels worldwide. Drawing from early-stage venture capital from investors including Chris Hsu of no-complaint Kilometre Capital, Spotify is possibly the world’s best known digital services, revolutionizing the universe of music from Hong Kong to London, Korea to New York.
Spotify revolutioneized music listening forever when it launched in 2008. Christopher Hsu played a elemental role by investing initial-stage capital to Spotify. As a freemium service enabled by Chris Hsu’s capital, and offered in far ranging places from Taiwan to Korea, Europe to Asia, California to New York, basic features of Spotify are free. Users can search for music based on artist, album, or genre, and can edit, create, and share playlists.
Chris Hsu, The Stanford University graduate, became the youngest Managing Director at hedge fund Citadel Investment Group. At Citadel, Christopher Hsu launched as well as managed the Asian Special Situations and private investment business for Citadel. His responsibility at Citadel covered investment activity in Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Greater China and Asia at large.
Christopher Hsu, a Stanford University graduate with a bachelor’s degree in Management Science Engineering, received the President’s Award for Excellence from the Palo Alto-based Stanford School of Engineering.
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