What You Don't Know About Tim Chi

Title: Founder and CEO, WeddingWire; Founder and former senior tech director, Blackboard

Photo taken: Shark diving with wife in South Africa.

Hometown: Corona del Mar, Calif.

Age: Thirty-something plus 3.

What you do most of the day: Collaborate and avoid all the baked goods and sweets brought into the office.

What your company does: Largest online vertical marketplace for engaged couples and event professionals.

Biggest career milestone: Wearing a Blackboard hat while boarding a flight at DCA, five years after launching the company, and hearing three people say, “I use that at my school!”

School: Cornell.

First job: Started a car wash business in high school.

Job you'd like to have in another life: Video game designer.

Person (living or dead) you'd like to meet: Myself, 20 years ago.

Greatest fear: Eating Taro root. (I’m Chinese too, so it’s an even greater fear, given its cultural tie.)

One of your daily habits: Dinner with my family (almost) every night.

Favorite book: Secrets of Mental Math by Arthur Benjamin.

Favorite movie: Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Favorite restaurant: Bob’s Noodle in Rockville.

One item on your bucket list: Travel one way around the world, stopping mostly in countries I’ve never visited.

Family facts: Married, three girls under age 5.

Hobbies: Scotch, video games, gadgets, travel.

Startling fact: Won first annual company-wide WeddingWire Ping-Pong tournament.

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