What You Don't Know About Tim Chi
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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.
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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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