Tien Tzuo

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Tien Tzuo
Born1968 [1]
Taiwan
Alma mater Cornell University (BS)
Stanford University (MBA)
Occupation(s)Co-founder, chairman & CEO, Zuora
Years active1990–present
SpouseMariana Tzuo [2]
Children1 [1]

Tien Tzuo is a Taiwanese-born American tech entrepreneur. He is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Zuora, and prior to that was chief strategy officer of Salesforce.

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Early life

Tzuo was born in Taiwan, and when he was 3 years old his family moved to the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. [3] [4] His parents were psychology professors, and his father also worked as an importer-exporter and in real estate. [3]

Education

Tzuo graduated from Hunter College High School in 1986, earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at Cornell University, worked at Oracle Corporation in Manhattan for six years, and then earned his MBA from Stanford University Graduate School Of Business. [1] [5]

Salesforce

He worked for about a year at enterprise software company CrossWorlds. [5] In 1999, he was hired at cloud computing company Salesforce as its eleventh employee. He worked there for nine years and would become Salesforce's first chief marketing officer and then chief strategy officer. [6] [7] [8]

Zuora

In 2007, Tzuo left Salesforce to launch Zuora as its founding CEO. [5] [6] The California-based enterprise software company creates and provides subscription management software to help other companies with their subscription-based services. [7] [9] [10] Within a few weeks of its initial public offering on April 12, 2018, Zuora was valued at over $2 billion, and Tzuo's 10% stake in the company was worth an estimated $193 million. [11] [9]

Tzuo's book Subscribed: Why the Subscription Model Will Be Your Company's Future - and What to Do About It , written with Gabe Weiser t, was published by Portfolio on June 5, 2018. [12]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Bessette, Chanelle (10 June 2014). "10 Questions: Tien Tzuo, founder and CEO, Zuora". Fortune. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  2. ↑ Tzuo, Tien (5 June 2018). Subscribed : why the subscription model will be your company's future - and what to do about it. ISBN   978-0525536468 . Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  3. 1 2 Bryant, Adam (6 January 2017). "Tien Tzuo of Zuora: 'Don't Expect Me to Manage You'". New York Times. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  4. ↑ Feldman, Amy (4 November 2015). "Zuora's Tien Tzuo Had A Big Idea For Software To Drive The Subscription Economy -- He Almost Blew It". Forbes. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  5. 1 2 3 Rogers, Bruce (23 August 2016). "Tien Tzuo's Zuora Set To Capitalize On Subscription Economy It Helped Build". Forbes. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  6. 1 2 Kim, Eugene (17 April 2015). "11 super successful tech leaders who struggled when they first arrived in America". Business Insider. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  7. 1 2 Gage, Deborah (11 March 2015). "Zuora Raises $115 Million to Fuel Subscription Economy". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  8. ↑ Miller, Ron. "Zuora Orders aims to drive subscription renewals and expansion". TechCrunch. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  9. 1 2 Lin, Serena (30 April 2018). "CEO of billion-dollar Zuora reveals a key management lesson he learned the hard way". CNBC. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  10. ↑ Paredes, Divina (3 August 2015). "Doing business with Tien Tzuo of Zuora: CMO to CEO". CIO. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  11. ↑ Bort, Julie (12 April 2018). "Zuora soars in its IPO, and the founder's stake is worth nearly $200 million — 5 years after the company hit rocky times". Business Insider. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  12. ↑ Broughton, Philip Delves (17 July 2018). "'Subscribed' Review: For a Flat Monthly Fee". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
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