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Bruce Chen, an Taiwanese Internet entrepreneur with dual backgrounds in fine arts and computing/mathematics, was one of the founding members of the Chinese portal Sina.com.
He was a selected art-gifted student since age 12, studied the western Fine Arts as well as the Chinese Arts in his student life. After obtaining a MScdegree in England in 3D Computing & Mathematics, he worked as a 3D Animator for SONY Psygnosis in the UK. In 1996, he joined an Internet start-up in Silicon Valley - SinaNet, later merged with China's SRSNet and became the Chinese portal site SINA.com. SINA went public on Nasdaq in April of year 2000.
In 2004, Chen was recruited by eBay to become the Head of Strategy for eBay Taiwan.
In 2010, He joined a Silicon Valley start-up SpecialDeals.com as the Chief Strategy Officer, then cofounded Yikuair.com, the Weibo commerce company in China in 2011 in a spin-off.
