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Awards & Recognition

★Member of Phi Beta Kappa society at Stanford

★Graduated with distinction from Stanford University (1991)

Notable Facts

→Co-founder and founding CTO of LinkedIn (2002), which was acquired by Microsoft for $26.2B in 2016

→LinkedIn had over 400 million users at time of acquisition

→Founded multiple companies: Presdo, Hub (blockchain trust protocol), KarmaCheck (AI background checks)

→Former venture partner at Wellington Partners (2008-2011), whose portfolio includes Spotify and Xing

→Stanford University graduate (1991) with BS in Symbolic Systems, MIT Media Lab MS (1993)

→Vietnamese refugee who emigrated to US in 1975 at age 6

→Has 500+ LinkedIn connections and 154 Twitter followers

→Regular conference speaker on trust, technology, and background checks

→Serves on advisory board of Movoto.com

→Founded Kubet 9x in Vietnam (2026)

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