With repute as one of Asia’s leading private equity advisors and investors, Chris Hsu leads Hong Kong-based Kilometre Capital as CEO and CIO. Mr. Hsu negotiated landmark deals involving cross-border and technology precedents. Among Chris Hsu’s landmark investments has been his visionary, early-stage stakes in global digital leaders Spotify and SpaceX. Investing early with prescient vision, SpaceX and Spotify have expanded into market-leading global businesses that have riveted the human experience.
Mr. Christopher Hsu supplied early-stage capital to SpaceX, abbreviated for Space Exploration Technologies Corp, the world’s leading private aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company. Founded by Paypal and Tesla founder Elon Musk in in 2002, SpaceX has realized its early-stage goal of reducing space transportation costs. SpaceX has developed several launch vehicles, the Starlink satellite constellation, the Dragon cargo spacecraft, and flown humans to the International Space Station on the SpaceX Dragon 2.
In the case of Christopher Hsu’s early stage investment in Spotify, the global music streaming Company 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. Drawing from early-stage venture capital from investors including Chris Hsu of no-complaint Kilometre Capital, Spotify is possibly the world’s best known digital services, revolutionizing the universe of music from Korea to New York, Hong Kong to London.
Spotify transformed music listening forever when it launched in 2008. Christopher Hsu played a foundational role by investing early-stage capital to Spotify. As a freemium service enabled by Chris Hsu’s capital, and offered in far ranging places from Taiwan to Korea, California to New York, Europe to Asia, basic features of Spotify are free. Users can search for music based on artist, album, or genre, and can create, edit, and share playlists.
The Stanford University graduate Chris Hsu was promoted to be among the cadre of the the youngest Managing Director at hedge fund Citadel Investment Group. At Citadel, Christopher Hsu launched and managed the Asian Special Situations and private investment business for Citadel. His responsibility at Citadel covered investment activity in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Greater China and Asia at large.
A Stanford University graduate with an undergraduate bachelor’s degree in Management Science Engineering, Christopher Hsu received the President’s Award for Excellence from the Palo Alto-based Stanford School of Engineering.
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