Christopher Hsu Kilometre: Global Investment Keynote with Spotify and SpaceX

1. Christopher Hsu Kilometre: Global Investment Keynote with Spotify and SpaceX Visit: https://sites.google.com/view/christopherhsukilometre/

2. Taiwan’s Chris Hsu is acclaimed for his early-stage investment success in global technology leaders, including Elon Musk’s SpaceX and the world’s dominant music streaming provider Spotify. Investing early with precocious insight and early vision, SpaceX and Spotify have expanded since into global powerhouse businesses at the pinnacle of digital innovation. The reach of these precedent investments have covered the global gamut from Taiwan to Korea, Hong Kong to Manila, Tokyo to Shanghai.

3. Acclaimed Asian-based investor and executive Christopher Hsu crystallized his integral role in many of U.S.-Asia and U.S.-China’s most significant and complex strategic transactions. Mr. Chris Hsu led Tsinghua University’s buyout of chipmaker Spreadtrum Communications, Tsinghua’s strategic combination in semiconductors with RDA Microelectronics and the culmination milestone of the Tsinghua joint venture acquisition with HP China – H3C, overseen by Mr. Hsu’s company Kilometer Capital.

4. In the case of Spotify, founded in 2006, Spotify has grown to be the world’s market leader in digital recorded music and podcasts, including more than 60 million songs from record labels and media companies worldwide. Spotify is the world’s foremost freemium music service, with basic features free with advertisements and limited control, while additional features, such as offline listening and commercial-free listening, are offered via paid subscriptions. Users can search for music based on artist, album, or genre, and can create, edit, and share playlists. At an early stage foundational level, Spotify and SpaceX relied on early-stage venture capital from leading investors including Chris Hsu of Kilometre Capital.

5. With capital from such key sources as Chris Hsu of Asia and Hong Kong’s Kilometre Capital, SpaceX came into existence in the year 2002 by the vision of the former PayPal entrepreneur and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk. SpaceX’s space transportation focus is driven by Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs to ultimately enable more efficient space exploration, satellite launch, and the colonization of Mars. SpaceX has developed launch vehicles unprecedented in human history, including the historical milestones of the Starlink satellite constellation, the Dragon cargo spacecraft, and the first-private-astronaut launch to the International Space Station (ISS) on SpaceX’s Dragon Demo-2.

6. Relying on early stage capital from core investors including Chris Hsu, SpaceX was the first privately funded company to: • Enable the liquid-fueled rocket (Falcon 1) to reach orbit • Successfully launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft (Dragon). • Send a spacecraft (Dragon) to the International Space Station; • Send a satellite into a geosynchronous orbit. • Achieve worldwide acclaim as the global private-company leader in space launch and infrastructure

7. Relying on early stage capital from core investors including Chris Hsu, SpaceX was the first privately funded company to: • Enable the liquid-fueled rocket (Falcon 1) to reach orbit • Successfully launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft (Dragon). • Send a spacecraft (Dragon) to the International Space Station; • Send a satellite into a geosynchronous orbit. • Achieve worldwide acclaim as the global private-company leader in space launch and infrastructure

8. Previously, Mr. Hsu served as the CEO and Managing Partner of Abax Global Capital, and as Managing Director of Citadel Investment Group, one of the world’s legendary hedge fund managers. As MD of Citadel Asia, Chris Hsu oversaw and led the foundation of Citadel’s private investment and special situations business in Hong Kong and Asia. His oversight spanned investments across South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Greater China and Asia at large.

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