Guyi Shen

Guyi Shen (born 8 March 1979, in Hangzhou, China) is an entrepreneur best known as the founder and CEO of Save22, South-East Asia's largest mobile shopping application.[1]

Guyi Shen
OccupationCEO of Save22

Early life and education

Shen was born in Hangzhou, China on 8 March 1979. He spent his early years in London, Canada and Newcastle, Australia. He moved to Sydney, Australia in 1996 where he attended UNSW on a Co-Op Scholarship. He graduated in 2000 with a B.Sc in BIT.

Career

Shen began his career at Procter & Gamble as a Lotus Notes programmer, he then went on to work at Westpac, Nortel Networks and IBM.[1] In 2010 Shen moved to Singapore and founded Save22 with Ronald Cheung. Save22 is the largest mobile price comparison app in South East Asia[2]

Television Work

Shen was featured on Episode 3 of the reality TV series Angel's Gate,[3] which began broadcasting on Channel NewsAsia in February 2012. The show gives budding entrepreneurs in Asia an opportunity to pitch business ideas to investors.[4] On the show, Shen agreed to a deal to exchange 10% of the company for mentorship. This agreement was widely ridiculed as an example of investors taking advantage of entrepreneurs in the Singapore startup ecosystem.[5][6] It later was revealed that the agreement never progressed beyond the TV studio.[7]

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gollark: Oh, right.
gollark: If it's too similar, then the low Levenshtein distance between apiospatial config files and your APIONET config file *could* actually open an informational path through apio*meta*space, which would then allow IRC messages to travel across it, thus possibly causing incursions.
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References
  1. http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=26102849&trk=tab_pro
  2. Terence Lee. http://sgentrepreneurs.com/innovation-technology/2012/03/23/a-chat-with-guyi-shen-the-man-behind-lobangclub/ SGEntrepreneurs. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6jLd8JxHVA
  4. So you want to be an entrepreneur?, Channelnewsasia.com, 2 February 2012
  5. Derrick Ko. http://blog.derrickko.com/an-open-letter-to-angels-gate Derrick. Retrieved 5 September 2012
  6. Willis Wee. http://www.techinasia.com/angels-gate-good-bad/ Tech In Asia. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
  7. Guyi Shen. http://www.insidestartup.sg/funding/the-insider-story-on-lobangclubs-angels-gate-appearance/ Archived 28 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine Inside Startup:Official Blog of Save22. Retrieved 5 September 2012
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