Jia Shen is an American technology

entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk (assumed by a traditional business), and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones. An entreprene ...

best known as the co-founder of

RockYou RockYou was a company that developed widgets for MySpace and implemented applications for various social networks and Facebook. After 2014, it had engaged primarily in the purchases of rights to classic video games; it incorporated in-game ads an ...

, a company that developed games and widgets for social networks, such as

Myspace Myspace (formerly stylized as MySpace, currently myspace; and sometimes my␣, with an elongated Whitespace character#Substitute images, open box symbol) is a social networking service based in the United States. Launched on August 1, 2003, it w ...

and

Facebook Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta Platforms, Meta. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andre ...

. At RockYou, Jia led the company to acquire over 400 million users and raise over $140 million in investment. In 2014, Shen founded the company PowerCore, which creates smart toys and branded merchandise for brands, such as Battle Tails, Mino Monsters, and Business Fish. Most recently Shen leads the Asian efforts of Game Closure, the creator of EverWing on the Instant Games platform in Facebook Messenger and a launch partner on the LINE Quick Games platform. During Shen's career, one of the biggest mistakes was the largest password compilation of all time leaked online. Shen is currently managing and operatin
GC Turbo
(gaming)
AKA Virtual
(mocap and animation production), an
SHISA.AI
(AI machine-learning).

Public Appearances

Shen was invited to deliver the keynote speech "Virtual Characters and Real-Time Content Creation" at Google EMEA's Think Global APAC Summit 2023 held in Tokyo, Japan on May 10, 2023. Shen also appeared on the stage of Web Summit 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal, delivering a speech alongsid

on virtual content production. In 2024, Shen will appear at East Meets West 2024 in Honolulu, Hawai`i.

References

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