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Beijing

Unit 1, Level 10, Tower W2
Oriental Plaza
No.1 East Chang An Ave
Dong Cheng District
Beijing 100738 P.R. China
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+011 8610 6511 1700 Tel
+011 8610 6511 1799 Fax

Silicon Valley

2420 Sand Hill Road
Suite 200
Menlo Park, CA 94025
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+1 650 233 1400 Tel
+1 650 854 9159 Fax

Tokyo

the ARGYLE aoyama 15F
2-14-4 Kita-aoyama, Minato-ku,
Tokyo, 107-0061 Japan
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+011 81 3 4520 2310 Tel
+011 81 3 4520 2311 Fax

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Business plans can be submitted to DCM at businessplan@dcm.com

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Meredith Obendorfer
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(415) 321-1882
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David Chao 赵克仁 茶尾克仁
Silicon Valley, U.S.

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Co-Founder and General Partner

About

David is Co-Founder and General Partner at DCM. At DCM, he guides portfolio companies in formulating corporate and product marketing strategies, developing strong management teams and implementing domestic and international partnerships. David is the Chairman of 51job (Nasdaq: JOBS), the largest HR advertisement & outsourcing company in China. He is also responsible for the investments in 99Bill (Wanda Group), All About Japan, Inc. (JASDAQ: 2454), Careem (Uber), eDreams (ODIGEO), Fortinet (Nasdaq: FTNT), Kabu.com (TSE: 8703), Musical.ly (TikTok), Recourse Technologies (Symantec), Sling Media (EchoStar/Dish Networks), SMIC (NYSE: SMI), SoFi (Nasdaq: SOFI), StarFlyer, and UCloud among others. David also serves on the Advisory Board of Legend Capital in China and is a Trustee of The Thacher School. He has been listed as one of the top venture capitalists in Asia and the U.S. by Forbes Magazine since 2004 and was named to the Forbes Midas List Hall of Fame in 2016.

Prior to DCM, David was a Co-Founder and acting CFO/CTO of Japan Communications Inc. (Nasdaq Japan - Hercules: 9424), Japan’s first publicly traded mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). Previously, David worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company in San Francisco, focused on communications and software industry clients. Earlier in his career, David worked in marketing and product management at Apple Computer, where he co-authored and implemented Apple Japan’s One Billion Dollar Revenue Plan, successfully growing revenues from $25 million to $1 billion. David also managed Apple's portfolio of start-up investments in the U.S. Prior to Apple, David was an account executive at Recruit, Japan’s largest HR advertising and web infomediary corporation.

The lighter side of David: At the tender age of 13, David was recruited by a renowned Sumo-house in Japan but had the foresight to turn down the offer and fly to the United States and develop his mind instead of his girth. He then dropped out of Brown University’s 7-year medical school program due to excessive vomiting induced by cadavers. Despite his achievement of playing more rounds of golf than any other student in his Stanford Business School class, David had to give up his dream of joining the PGA and resort to being a fanatical food lover, car collector, and a gadget junky.

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Highlights

Will travel anywhere to back great entrepreneurs

Co-Founder of JCI and DCM

Audiophile, food lover, gadget junky

Education

Brown University
B.A. with high honors in Economics and East Asian Studies (Anthropology)

Stanford University
M.B.A.

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