Alvin Wang Graylin, China President at HTC, Virtual Reality VR, XR, metaverse

Between Meetings

Takeaways:

• Metaverse allows more fluidity for economic class
• 5% of your customers generate 80-90% of your profitability
• The right timing is key to success
• I‘ve been lucky throughout my career that people have trusted me to execute and to be able to think independently
• Entrepreneurship is tough
• All the things that we have been seeing in sci-fi movies are going to be a part of our real world soon
• I learned more in that year and a half than I did at all my courses at MIT
• You need to be very careful looking at your legal documents
• We did all the mistakes you could do as a venture-backed entrepreneur

Mr. Graylin （汪丛青） is the China President at HTC leading all aspects of HTC's business in the region (Vive/VR, phone, Viveport content platform, partnerships and investments) and the company’s XR Suite Business globally. He is also currently Vice-Chairman of the Industry of Virtual Reality Alliance (IVRA.com) with 300+ company members, President of the $18B Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance (VRVCA.com) and oversees the Vive X VR Accelerators (VIVEX.co) in Beijing, Shenzhen and Tel Aviv. Mr. Graylin is a sought-after speaker and thought leader in the areas of VR/AR, AI, Entrepreneurship, and doing business in China by events and media globally.

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