Do you know the magic $number$ that would convince you to let go of your baby? Kai Huang, founder of Guitar Hero, shares the inside scoop on Activision buying out RedOctane. If you’ve ever wondered just how much they sold it for, here’s your answer. In a mad-money world, Kai tells us not to forget about the important goals in life: having fun with friends.

Big things continued to come his way with the collaboration that created 886 Studios: an accelerator that helps Taiwanese entrepreneurs go global with their startup projects. With the agenda planned for an internationally accessible Taiwan, this global organization is making waves in the Taiwanese startup space.

The Amber Show is comin’ in hot from Taiwan: a bi-weekly discussion of what's going on in the tech community in Asia, the Crypto and DeFi space & highlighting inspiring founders’ stories across Asia.

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Kai Huang founded Guitar Hero which was sold to Activision in 2006. He is currently working on his new project: 886 Studios in Taiwan, an up and coming accelerator.

For more information on the inner workings of 886 Studios, check it

https://www.886studios.com

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DeFi-antly creative: pplpleasr dives into art, NFTs, Stand with Asians

Are you a “people pleaser”? pplpleasr gives us the lowdown on what it’s like inside the mind of someone who feels the need to please. Maybe you already know. I was able to find out what really keeps this rising star up at night. In this deep-dive interview, we get to the root all things pplpleasr: her opinions about NFTs, her artistic vision, her background, and her involvement in the DeFi movement.

pplpleasr is one of the most influential artists in the DeFi space and has sold her work for 310 Ethereum. But she isn’t out for herself. The creative genius is first a humanitarian. She tells us about raising money for the Stand with Asians movement to end hate crimes against Asian minorities. pplpleasr is an incredibly talented artist and has risen to the challenge of working with “big names”... but she has stayed strong in her roots.

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pplpleaser is a rising influential DeFi artist that dabbles in the NFT space. She does big projects for “big names” and is making waves with her content. Memes abound.

Bid on pplpleaser NFT’s at foundation.app

https://foundation.app/pplpleasr

pplpleaser Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/pplpleasr/

pplpleaser Twitter: https://twitter.com/pplpleasr1?ref_sr...

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What is longevity? What are the possibilities for us and what are the different schools of thought we see today? Discussing the current opportunities and future on this topic everyone is curious about.

Toby Overmaat, Coherence Bio

Toby Overmaat is founder of Coherence Bio, which develops point-of-care molecular diagnostics devices. She also previously founded Zhihui Health Tech, which uses genetic and lifestyle data to predict chronic disease.

Chris Shu, Pacific 8 Ventures

Chris is the founding managing partner at Pacific 8 Ventures, an investment firm focused on disruptive technology platforms and healthcare - especially those transforming therapeutics, diagnostics and broader health services within the US market.

Ser-Chen Fu, Pacific 8 Ventures

Ser-Chen is a partner at Pacific 8 Ventures and a Doctor of Medicine with over 10 years of clinical experience.

Sam Martin, Invitae

Sam is a regional account manager at Invitae, a genetic testing company that informs you of your genetic blueprint to stay on top of your health and prevent potential risk of developing diseases.

If you’ve had to change your password countless times due to security breaches, you’ll probably get down with Clara Tsao’s agenda. Her initiative for a better, safer internet world is the foundation of this founder’s project: Filecoin.

Clara chats about all the golden opportunities of decentralized web applications and networks. We both agreed that privacy is wayyy more valuable than people give credit to. Although Filecoin did incredibly well in the crypto space, the real value in this project is those who push back against an internet behind closed curtains.

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Clara Tsao is the founding officer and director of Filecoin Foundation with Andrew Fai: DeStation Founder.

The FFDW is a charitable sister organization with a mission to ensure the preservation of humanity’s most important information by stewarding the development of open source software and open protocols.

https://filecoin.io/blog/posts/meet-the-filecoin-foundation/

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Crypto experts discuss the future of crypto integration in traditional financial services and its potential. Coinbase’s IPO is arguably the equivalent of Netscape in the 90s and how does this affect the future of crypto.

Alex Liu, MaiCoin

Alex Liu is the founder and CEO of AMIS and MaiCoin, a financial technology company with strong expertise in Bitcoin and blockchain, shared-ledger technology. Prior to MaiCoin, he was Director of Marketing at Qualcomm, overseeing a $35 million per year product line from Shanghai, where he helped usher through a cable modem standard with China’s State Administration for Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT).

Calvin Shen, Hex Trust

Calvin Shen is head of sales and business development at Hex Trust, a fully licensed, insured, leading provider of bank-grade custody for digital assets. Hex Trust has a proprietary platform – Hex Safe – that delivers an infrastructure custody solution for banks, financial institutions, asset managers, and exchanges to safely, securely, and efficiently operate in the digital asset ecosystem.

Peter Wang, Industry Expert

Peter Wang works in compliance at one of the oldest exchanges in crypto. A former financial advisor, equity analyst, and proprietary trader, Peter has converted into a crypto believer.

Andrew Lin

US corporate attorney focused on cross border transactions, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital. Consults clients on evolving ICO/STO securities regulations, cryptocurrency laws and smart contracts.

NFTs is taking the world by storm,  we gather IP holders, games industry veterans and music industry professionals to discuss how they are affected or see adapting to metaverse and digital collectables how they hit it.  Industry leaders discuss how NFTs will change the creative economy and how we think about intellectual property and the future of entertainment and work.

Jonathan Shecter, Defi Investor, Founder of The Source Magazine

Jonathan Shecter is a music and media entrepreneur with over 25 years industry experience. Best known as founding editor of The Source magazine—the world’s leading hip-hop music and culture publication—Shecter founded several music and media companies and served as an executive producer, editor-in-chief, and programming executive across a broad range of platforms, including an influential position at Medium.com.

Shecter is a cryptocurrency investor and consultant, a DeFi enthusiast, and a specialist in content creation, programming, and curating—with an eye towards high quality output.

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William Bao Bean Investor to Superworld

William Bao Bean is a General Partner at SOSV He has been investing in the NFT space, including investing in Superworld. Superworld is a virtual real estate platform where users can buy, sell, collect, and curate over 64 billion unique plots of virtual land.

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 Eric Jou Gaming Industry Expert

Writer, gamer, and dog lover, Eric Jou strives to connect people through gaming. As a member of the global publisher relations team and lead in Asia Pacific Japan, Eric works with ESL turtle entertainment, closely with game developers and publishers to bring their competitive esports ambitions to fruition.

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 KK Yang - President of Beast Kingdom

KK Yang is the President of Beast Kingdom Co., Ltd. a leading Taiwanese global toy manufacturer that has distributed products into thousands of shops in over 40 different countries and received various awards since 2012. Beast Kingdom has been awarded Disney’s “Licenser of the Year Award” for many consecutive years and is also a major licenser for Line Friends. 

Jimmy Weng, Senior Sales Bandai Namco Collectibles

Jimmy Weng is the senior e-commerce sales manager at Bandai Namco Collectibles, the leading master and channel distributor of Japanese toys, collectibles, novelty and hobby products. Jimmy has over 20 years of experience in e-commerce.

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 Patrice Chou, Art Curator

Patrice Chou is an interdisciplinary curator and actively participates in international art events. Having focused on UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in recent years, Chou collaborates with professionals from different fields for a variety of creative projects.

 Yuan Wang, Chief Strategy Officer at Algorithmic Creations and Grizzled Game Veteran

Yuan Wang is the Chief Strategy Officer at Algorithmic Creations and mentors startups at Chinaccelerator and MOX. As a game designer and programmer, he has previously worked at Blizzard Entertainment, Disney, and LucasArt, and helped design, code, and operate award-winning 3D video games including Descent, Jedi-Knight, and WoW.

Andrew Kang, Mechanism Capital

Andrew Kang is Co-Founder of Mechanism Capital, which invests in crypto - prop trading, mining, venture, and secondary markets. Andrew previously worked in portfolio management and venture capital at Digital Capital Management. In 2020, Andrew was deeply involved in various DeFi related ventures, he is also very active in providing analysis on DeFi projects through Twitter.

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Yenwen Feng, Perpetual Protocol

Yenwen Feng co-founded Perpetual Protocol, a decentralized perpetual contract protocol with Virtual AMM on top of Ethereum.

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Tom Schmidt, Dragonfly Capital

Tom Schmidt is a partner at Dragonfly capital, a cross-border crypto-asset investment firm. He was previously Product at 0x Project, PM on ads at Facebook and Instagram, and engineering at Apple.

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Ryan Rodenbaugh, TrustToken

Ryan leads Strategy and Business Development for TrustToken. He previously focused on the TUSD stablecoin and is now focused solely on TrueFi, an on-chain unsecured lending protocol. Ryan has worked extensively throughout Asia leading partnerships with exchanges, trading firms, and other institutional partners. You can find his writings on crypto at https://ryanrodenbaugh.com/tag/crypto/ and you can probably find him exploring Taipei's bars and nightlife.

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K, anonymous trader

“K” is an anonymous trader who has been in the DeFi and trading industry since 2015.

The tech community in Asia is calling for founders' stories. So, here it is: get insider knowledge from one of the best in biz. William, the general partner at SOSV (the most active global venture capital firm), set up MOX: a mobile only accelerator that connects internet companies. 

Host Amber gets down to the root of William’s recent promising investments, finding your perfect market fit & doing smart business in China. But the core of this week’s podcast is William’s journey of investing in BitMEX.

William was the first investor in the multi-billion dollar company that rocked the crypto space. Listen in to learn more about how they started off in Shanghai and the scoop on how they first generated income thanks to a market fit with retail bitcoin investors. The end resulted in huge portfolio gains across Southeast Asia. 

The Amber Show is comin’ in hot from Taiwan: a bi-weekly discussion of what's going on in the tech community in Asia, the Crypto and DeFi space & highlighting inspiring founders’ stories across Asia/Taiwan. 

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William Bao Bean is now based in Taipei, Taiwan after years of making waves in Shanghai. 

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Connect with Mox: https://mobileonlyx.com/

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This week brings big bitcoin energy. Our podcast guests give you the downlow on what it was like to be one of the first bitcoin miners and the ins-and-outs of forking bitcoin today. Edward was young when he became a bitcoin believer, and partnering with Andy only increased their explorations and investments. 

There were struggles, network attacks and more, but the pair didn’t quit tinkering within the bitcoin space. Edward worked on bitcoin gold, one of the two forks he was passionate about, and has all the opinions of the pros & cons of mining. They’re excited to share stories & tips on:

• Security in bitcoin transactions (exchange and personal wallets)
• Selling all their mining equipment and its effect on their Trading fund performance of bitcoin (only set up last year)
• Advice on mining: the good, the bad, the ugly
• Being a bitcoin maximalist

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Edward Guo was a Participant in 2 bitcoin forks, early miner and currently working on transaction security.

Andy Wang is Co Founder of Adein Tek and VC in Crypto Startup Space

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If you’re in the crypto market, listen up. This episode dives deep into cyber security and data-driven industrial blockchain solutions with Ivan from Red Building Capital in Taiwan & Clavin Shen from Hex Trust. 

In the podcast, Ivan shares his journey with us (and it’s a good one). All the way from starting a business and working with large corporations in Taiwan (right out of school), to working with TMSC - Ivan has now started pursuing his own fund.  

Host Amber and Ivan talk strategy on quant trading and how they managed to 200X their year-to-date performance. Calvin Shen from Hex Trust chimes in with his opinions on the importance of custody today, and how it ties into crypto adoption.

Hex Trust Capital recently received A-series investment from leading blockchain firms, and Calvin is here to tell you how. From a small HK startup to leading institutional adoption of blockchain in Asia, Hex Trust has made huge strides in the crypto market in Asia. 

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Content of the video

00:00 - - Intro

00:18 - - Welcoming the guests Calvin Shen-Hex Trust & Ivan Li-Red Building Capital

00:53 - - Ivan Li's background

02:21 - - Calvin Shen's background

03:56 - - About Hex Trust

05:35 - - Will it be difficult for large institutions to enter Asia market?

06:30 - - What is your view on the sector here in Taiwan? 

08:29 - - What is your approach to Cybersecurity?

10:54 - - What are other technologies that are being deployed besides blockchain?

12:09 - - Are there other companies in your portfolio focused on security?

13:13 - - Who needs a third-party custody solution?

15:43 - - How do we keep our Crypto or data safe?

19:30 - - What are the main questions or solutions that your clients ask for?

23:18 - - What kind of licenses or regulations have you acquired?

26:03 - - How was your fund’s performance this year?

27:29 - - Red Building Capital

29:23 - - Are you looking for new projects or interesting startups to invest in and do you only focus on Taiwan-based teams?

33:02 - - What is your view on expanding your startups beyond Taiwan?

36:48 - - How is Hex Trust competitive with others in the regional market?

40:50 - - What's stopping others from providing their own custody solutions?

42:37 - - Are you thinking about getting into Defi, NFTs?

43:44 - - What words of caution would you give to people getting started with crypto?

48:24 - - What do you see happening in the next six months to a year?

50:46 - - What do you think is the next big thing to encourage adoption?

54:08 - - Closing note

55:02 - - How do you think Covid has affected the crypto  industry in Taiwan?

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Calvin Shen is the head of Sales and Business Development at Hex Trust,  leading provider of bank-grade custody for digital assets.

Linkedin:

Hex Trust: https://hextrust.com/

Ivan Li is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Red Building Capital, 

Linkedin:

Red Building Capital: https://www.rbcap.io/

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What you oughta know about the startup scene in Taiwan

How much do you know about tech founders in Taiwan? And the infamous rush for the Gold Card visa? In the first ever podcast episode, host Amber and co-host Chrissy talk to Jack Fu from Draco Capital & YouTube founder Steven Chen about the ins and outs of:

• Moving to Taiwan (the world leader in preventing spread of COVID) 
• Getting the Gold Card visa
• The next steps for founders in Taiwan

Steve and Jack offer insight into entrepreneurship in Asia in our modern times. If you’ve ever been curious about the Taiwan startup ecosystem, this is your chance to hear about its growth from an inside source. Jack gives us insight into his AI hedge fund and offers his opinion on the future of Taiwan in the face of the global pandemic.

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Steve Chen is the first person to hold the Taiwan Gold Card, an initiative to bring high level, foreign talent to Taiwan.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/stevechen?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Information on the Gold Card: https://goldcard.nat.gov.tw/en/

Jack Fu is the Managing Director at Draco Capital, a macro hedge fund based in Newport Beach and Taipei.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-fu-446297199/

Connect with Draco Capital: https://www.dracocp.com/about.html

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