Alfred Lin
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 Alfred Lin at Le Web '09. Photo by Scott Allison. |
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| Alma mater | Harvard University(B.S.) Stanford University(M.S.) |
| Occupation | CFO/COO of Zappos |
Alfred Lin is a businessman and venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital and currently sits on the boards of Achievers, Houzz, Humble Bundle and Stella & Dot and also works with Trippy. Alfred focuses on consumer internet, enterprise and mobile companies.[1] He was born in Taiwan and moved to New York City at the age of six or seven.[2]
Prior to Sequoia Capital, Alfred was the Chairman, COO and CFO of Zappos.com which was acquired by Amazon.com in 2009.[3] While at Zappos, Alfred managed all financial, administrative and strategic operations.[4] Previously, Alfred was the VP of Finance and Business Development of Tellme Networks (MSFT) and co-founded Venture Frogs, an incubator and investment firm with Tony Hsieh.[1] Venture Frogs invested in companies such as Ask Jeeves (ASKJ), OpenTable (OPEN), MongoMusic (MSFT) and even Zappos.com (AMZN).[5] Prior to Venture Frogs, Alfred was the VP of Finance and Administration at LinkExchange which was sold to Microsoft for $265M.[6]
TechCrunch has stated that Alfred has the "Midas touch" since "Every company he’s worked for has been acquired, and the smallest deal was $265 million."[7]
Alfred holds a B.A. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard and an M.S. in Statistics from Stanford.[1] Tony Hsieh, the founder of Zappos, stated that he first recognised Lin's business acumen while running a student-owned pizza parlour at Harvard: Lin, his best customer, was buying whole pizzas, splitting them into slices and selling them for a profit.[8]
References [edit]
- ^ a b c "Bio: Alfred Lin", Sequoia Capital
- ^ "Interview with Alfred Lin from Zappos". meetinnovators.com
- ^ CEO Letter, Zappos , 22 Jul 2009
- ^ Alfred Lin - Zappos website
- ^ Venture Frogs
- ^ linkexchange, Crunchbase
- ^ Arrington, Michael "Alfred Lin Has The Midas Touch: The Man With $2 Billion In Acquisitions Under His Belt", TechCrunch, July 28, 2009. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
- ^ I Am CNBC Tony Hsieh Transcript CNBC. August 15, 2007.
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