Tien Tzuo (born 1968) is a

Taiwanese-American Taiwanese Americans ( Chinese: 臺灣裔美國人; pinyin: ''Táiwān yì měiguó rén''; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ''Tâi-Bí-jîn'') are Americans of Taiwanese ancestry, including American-born descendants of migrants from the Republic of China (Taiwan) ...

tech entrepreneur. He is the founder, chairman, and CEO of

Zuora Zuora, Inc. is an American enterprise software company headquartered in Redwood City, California that creates and provides software for businesses to launch and manage their subscription-based services. Zuora's applications are designed to auto ...

, and prior to that was chief strategy officer of

Salesforce Salesforce, Inc. is an American cloud-based software company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It provides applications focused on sales, customer service, marketing automation, e-commerce, analytics, artificial intelligence, and ap ...

Early life and education

Tzuo was born in Taiwan, and when he was 3 years old his family moved to the

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section of

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. His parents were psychology professors, and his father also worked as an importer-exporter and in real estate. Tzuo graduated from

Hunter College High School Hunter College High School is a public academic magnet secondary school located in the Carnegie Hill section of the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It is administered and funded by Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY) and no t ...

in 1986, earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at

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, worked at

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in Manhattan for six years, and then earned his

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(MBA) from the

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Salesforce

He worked for about a year at enterprise software company CrossWorlds. In 1999, he was hired at

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company

as its eleventh employee. He worked there for nine years and would become Salesforce's first chief marketing officer and then chief strategy officer.

Zuora

In 2007, Tzuo left Salesforce to launch

as its founding CEO. The California-based

enterprise software Enterprise software, also known as enterprise application software (EAS), is computer software used to satisfy the needs of an organization rather than its individual users. Enterprise software is an integral part of a computer-based information ...

company creates and provides subscription management software to help other companies with their subscription-based services. Within a few weeks of its

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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. Tzuo's book '' Subscribed: Why the Subscription Model Will Be Your Company's Future - and What to Do About It'', written with Gabe Weisert, was published by

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on June 5, 2018.

References

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