Scott Chou
Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ ESO Fund
About
I'm the author of "Maxims, Morals, and Metaphors" which is a humorous treatise on the art of venture capital. I co-founded the Employee Stock Option which provides innovative financing so that employees can afford to exercise their own stock options without all the risk. I'm also an advisor at the Michigan eLab Ventures fund which specializes in auto tech, AI, and security innovations . In my leisure time, I'm a big college football fan and gadget junkie.
United States
Los Altos
Venture Capital & Private Equity
Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Start-ups, Strategic Partnerships, Due Diligence, Corporate Development, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Strategy, Business Development, Strategy, Product Management, Competitive Analysis, Mergers, Private Equity, Management, Angel Investing, Investments, Mobile Devices, Venture Financing, M&A experience
Experience
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
ESO Fund
San Mateo, California
The Employee Stock Option fund provides non-recourse cash advances to cover the expenses associated with exercising stock options. These employee-friendly financings have no principal or interest payment requirements until liquidity is reached.
Advisor
Michigan eLab Ventures
San Mateo, CA
Michigan eLab is a technology venture capital fund dedicated to fostering entrepreneurial innovation within the Michigan ecosystem. It features a unique affinity network of Michiganders who are willing to coach and open doors for promising entrepreneurs.
General Partner
eLab Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Early stage technology venture capitalist that specializes in funding research laboratory spinouts.
Director
NextG Networks
San Jose
Board of Directors
Director
LVL7 Systems
North Carolina
Board of Directors until successful sale to Broadcom in late 2006
Kauffman Fellow
Onset Ventures
venture capital associate who assisted with deal sourcing and due diligence.
Kauffman Fellow
CID Capital
venture capital associate that sourced investment opportunities and performed due diligence
Engineering Manager
Integrated Computing Engines
MIT supercomputing spinout that developed graphics workstations.
Staff Engineer
IBM Storage Systems Division
Design engineer for a memory controller ASIC in an enterprise storage system. Also started out designing test fixtures for manufacturing support.
Engineer
Poqet Computer
Sunnyvale, CA
variety of roles from manufacturing management to applications engineering
Education
Caltech
Electrical Engineering
Harvard University
Stanford University
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