Elias Ek
Taipei (TWN)
Role(s):
Enspyre
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Location:
Taipei
Industry:
Human Resources
Year Founded:
2002
Number Employees:
INVALID
Description:
In 2000 Jane Wei and Elias Ek co-founded their first company, a web based vertical portal that made money by selling banner advertising and portal stores to merchants. The company quickly had a certain level of success and communication with users and customers started taking more and more time. Because the founders had other jobs during the day and handled their growing business during the nights and weekends it was tough. One obvious answer would have been to hire an employee but since the couple worked out of their 14 ping apartment, this was not practical. Nor was it economical since all they needed was someone who could in a professional manner answer and make a few phone calls every day. They then went looking for a company they could outsource with but only found companies who coul