VVSEAI Event | Hard Questions with Jeffrey Tiong, founding CEO of PatSnap

Pleased to present the 1st of our Hard Questions series - with Jeffrey Tiong, Founding CEO at PatSnap - Sign up for an insightful event!

About this event

Vertex Ventures SEA led Series A in PatSnap in 2014 and has continued to work with Jeffrey and his team through ups and downs to build PatSnap to its position as a leading global player. PatSnap achieved unicorn status in 2021, when they raised US$300 million at their Series E round, participated by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Tencent Investment, Vertex Ventures SE Asia and others.

We are pleased to present the first of our Hard Questions series -- Join us for an insightful hour with Jeffrey as he answers hard questions such as

• Personal sacrifices and regrets he has made, during this arduous company building journey
• Tough decisions he has made
• Setbacks, such as being rejected by 100 different investors
• Challenges faced such as moving his business to China and overcoming them

and more! Attendees are welcomed to ask 'hard' questions too.

As we anticipate overwhelming responses, we will share the exact location of the event venue with the confirmed registrants via email.

About Jeffrey Tiong

He is the founder and CEO of PatSnap, a globally-recognized competitive intelligence innovation platform. Under his leadership, the company has grown from a small four-person operation to international prominence in the highly competitive field of patent analytics. Today PatSnap enables more than 10,000 customers in 50 countries to access market, technology, and competitive intelligence as well as patent insights to take products from ideation to commercialization.

At the outset he was told he lacked the attributes to be a successful CEO. Tiong has proven the nay-sayers wrong at every turn through sheer grit and determination. He often describes his “super power” as adaptability. As the company took shape over the years, he has raised over US$400 million dollars from world class investors such as Sequoia, Softbank Vision, Vertex, Tencent, and Shunwei - and established PatSnap as a Unicorn.

Tiong has received international recognition for his vision and leadership. He was awarded the SCS IT Leaders Award in 2019, Ernst &Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award (Singapore) in 2018, and was featured on the Peak Power List in 2017.

This is an event like no other, as we aim to allow the entrepreneurs to benefit from

• learning from our speaker's authentic sharing of experiences
• understand challenges/ problems/ to expect as the entrepreneurs continue to build their business
• Ask the speaker 'hard', close to 'heart' questions.

There will be business networking after his talk and Q&A. Light refreshments will be served.

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