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Allen Lau is a Hong Kong-born Canadian entrepreneur who is the co-founder and former CEO of Wattpad. Biography. Lau was born in Hong Kong, and at age 19, he immigrated to Canada where he attended St. Robert Catholic High School and the University of Toronto.
Allen Lau is a serial entrepreneur, a leader in Canada’s tech community, and a board member of TIFF and MaRS. He co-founded Wattpad, a global entertainment company for original stories, and is now an executive advisor to WEBTOON, a webnovel platform.
Dec 13, 2022 · Allen Lau is the co-founder of Wattpad, a social-storytelling platform that was acquired by Naver in 2021. He also co-founded Two Small Fish, a VC fund that invests in transformative technology with global scale.
May 9, 2022 · Allen Lau, a pioneer of Canada’s technology renaissance of the past decade, is stepping aside as the CEO of Wattpad, a year after South Korean Internet giant Naver Corp. bought his company for...
- Sean Silcoff
As CEO and co-founder of Wattpad, Allen Lau leads the company's efforts to transform the way people around the world discover and share stories. Prior to Wattpad, Allen was the co-founder of FeedM8, a mobile advertising company that was acquired in 2008.
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- Toronto, Ontario
Wattpad founders Allen Lau (left) and Ivan Yuen set up the business in 2006. The BBC's weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world. This week we speak to...
May 9, 2022 · Allen Lau, who launched Wattpad and pioneered the webnovel format, will step aside as CEO and become an advisor for Wattpad and WEBTOON. Wattpad President Jeanne Lam will take over the leadership of the company, which has over 94 million users and one billion uploads.
