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Yishan Wong (Chinese: 黃易山; pinyin: Huáng Yìshān) is an American engineer and entrepreneur who was CEO of Reddit from March 2012 until his resignation in November 2014. With Niniane Wang he is also co-founder of the Mountain View coworking space Sunfire Offices, and was an advisor at Quora.
Yishan Wong. Founder & CEO. Engineer and climate activist. Specializes in rapid growth tech impact. Ex-engineer at PayPal, Facebook. Ex-CEO of Reddit. Berry Kennedy. Chief Operating Officer & VP of Operations. Turns insight into action. Delivering great experiences and results for forest creators and partners. Ex-Built, Uber, FMCN.org. Damien Kuhn.
Jun 9, 2021 · Yishan Wong applies Silicon Valley know-how to restore actual valleys, forests, and other green areas.
In 2017, Terraformation’s founder, Yishan Wong, began evaluating gigaton level climate solutions. His personal mission was to find a carbon capture plan that was practical, affordable, and offered the best possible chance to scale in this urgent decade for a livable climate future.
After two decades in the tech sector, former Reddit CEO Yishan Wong is building a company based on his favourite climate technology: trees.
Apr 4, 2024 · Former Reddit CEO Yishan Wong is applying Big Tech lessons to climate change. Terraformation. Ten years ago, I left Big Tech. I’d spent over a decade in Silicon Valley: first at PayPal, then...
Apr 17, 2023 · Yishan Wong talks Fortune through his résumé including the advice former boss Mark Zuckerberg gave him at Facebook, and nearly founding WeWork before WeWork.
Jan 23, 2024 · Yishan brings Silicon Valley’s expertise in scaling to the climate movement. Yishan founded Terraformation in 2020 to build and deploy tools that tackle the largest bottlenecks to mass-scale reforestation.
To solve a problem as big as climate change, we need to use highly reliable technology. Yishan Wong. January 25, 2021. Scaling Reforestation with Solar-Powered Desalination. Terraformation’s Pacific Flight at Kaupalaoa restoration project is helping restore one of the rarest ecosystems in the world.
