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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.
View Yishan Wong’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members. Accelerating global forest restoration to help solve the climate crisis.
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Jun 9, 2021 · Yishan Wong applies Silicon Valley know-how to restore actual valleys, forests, and other green areas.
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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.
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...
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Yishan Wong left the tech sector to focus on his favourite climate technology: trees. He is building a company that aims to plant a trillion trees and extract carbon from the atmosphere.
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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.