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Eric Tsai.
Chief Executive Officer, eriQoo.com
Eric Tsai is the CEO and founder of eriQoo.com, a Japan-based search engine start up company. He is based out of Tokyo, Japan.
Mr. Tsai founded eriQoo.com in 2006. Before launching eriQoo.com, Mr. Tsai had a global education, attending primary schools in Taipei, high school in the United States, and Sophia University in Japan. While attending university, Mr. Tsai gained experience working at Mitsubishi, where he assisted the Oversea Business Division in the export of vehicles to Central and South America, as well as South East Asia.
Mr. Tsai joined Credit Suisse in 2004, working as a fixed income trader and derivative structurer. He joined the prestigious bank in the Investment Banking Department, where he worked on several mergers and acquisitions transactions, before being transferred to the Fixed Income Department.
In 2006, Mr. Tsai began gathering investors for his Internet start-up company. An early participant in online BBS and Internet culture, Mr. Tsai became interested in founding a company that would assist people in finding information about the world around them.
This desire led to the founding of eriQoo.com, a search engine that allows users to discover the best information in a better way. Traditional search engines contain millions of listings for the keyword "doctor." eriQoo.com uses quantitative statistics and user opinion to help users sort through those millions of listings and find the best doctor via eriQoo.com’s ranking and recommendation technology. eriQoo.com combines data analysis and user opinion to create easy-to-find ratings and recommendations about nearly anything.
Aided by both private and institutional investors, Mr. Tsai founded eriQoo.com in 2006, with the site going into beta later that year. Using the motto "Because better matters" as an organizing principle, the website quickly became one of the fastest growing internet properties in Japan. The company has now more than quadrupled in size, with Mr. Tsai managing an international staff located in four overseas offices while continuing to work in Tokyo.
Mr. Tsai earned his bachelor's degree at Sophia University in Japan, where he majored in International Business and Economics. Mr. Tsai was named one of "Asia's Best Under 25" by BusinessWeek magazine in 2006, and he was later voted number one of "Asia's Best Entrepreneur Under 25" by the readers of BusinessWeek in 2007. He was a speaker for the 2008 Harvard Business Conference, and also guest speaker to Beijing University in 2009. In 2010, Mr. Tsai was named the Chinese CEO of the Year by the Ministry of Commerce of China, and is speaker to 2011 Global Competitiveness Forum.
eriQoo.com Summary
eriQoo.com is an online recommendation and referencing engine that utilizes quantitative statistics and majority public opinion. While traditional search engines can only tell users which websites contain, for example, the keyword "doctor" or "car resale value," eriQoo.com allows users to find the best doctor, or the car with the highest resale value. Through algorithmic data analysis combined with user opinion, eriQoo.com creates easy-to-find ratings and recommendations about nearly anything. eriQoo.com finds the best in a better way. Because better matters.
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