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Chris Hsu Kilometre Capital - Private Equity & Hedge Fund Investing

Christopher Hsu is known for his pioneering investments in the in the globe-dominant online music service Spotify and SpaceX, Elon Musku2019s revolutionary space exploration and space launch business. Read more at https://chrishsukilometrecapital.blogspot.com/

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Chris Hsu Kilometre Capital - Private Equity & Hedge Fund Investing

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  1. Chris Hsu Kilometre Capital - Private Equity & Hedge Fund Investing Visit - https://chrishsukilometrecapital.blogspot.com/

  2. CEO of Kilometre Capital Management in Hong Kong, Christopher Hsu is known for his pioneering investments in the in the globe-dominant online music service Spotify and SpaceX, Elon Musk’s revolutionary space exploration and space launch business. Chris Hsu is known for his pioneering investments in the in the globe-dominant online music service Spotify and SpaceX, Elon Musk’s revolutionary space exploration and space launch business. The early-stage investment and history of Spotify provide a compelling case study in business strategy from early-stage challenger to global incumbent, enabled by capital from early stage investors such as Chris Hsu and venture capital funds in combination with technology adoption.

  3. Chris Hsu’s complaint free investment enabled expanding convenience with Spotify, in the digital music era. One of the most important considerations in consumer-facing technology investing is asking whether the product alleviates pain points, reduces friction or enhances convenience. Whether it is Amazon, Netflix or Peloton, all winning consumer platforms exhibit these attributes.

  4. Enabled by investors like Hong Kong’s Chris Hsu, Spotify transformed music listening forever when it launched in 2008. Discover, manage and share over 60 million tracks, including more than 1.9 million podcasts. Christopher Hsu played an integral role in providing capital to Spotify, which offers digital copyright restricted recorded music and podcasts, including more than 60 million songs, from record labels and media companies. As a freemium service enabled by Chris Hsu’s private equity capital, and offered in far ranging places from Taiwan to Korea, California to New York, Europe to Asia, basic features of Spotify are free with advertisements and limited control, while additional features, such as offline listening and commercial-free listening, are offered via paid subscriptions. Users can search for music based on artist, album, or genre, and can create, edit, and share playlists.

  5. With capital from such key sources as Chris Hsu of Asia and Hong Kong’s Kilometre Capital, SpaceX came into existence in the year 2002 by the vision of the former PayPal entrepreneur and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk. SpaceX’s space transportation focus is driven by Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs to ultimately enable more efficient space exploration, satellite launch, and the colonization of Mars. SpaceX has developed launch vehicles unprecedented in human history, including the historical milestones of the Starlink satellite constellation, the Dragon cargo spacecraft, and the first-private-astronaut launch to the International Space Station (ISS) on SpaceX’s Dragon Demo-2.

  6. Relying on early stage capital from core investors including Chris Hsu, SpaceX was the first privately funded company to: ● Enable the liquid-fueled rocket (Falcon 1) to reach orbit ● Successfully launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft (Dragon). ● Send a spacecraft (Dragon) to the International Space Station; ● Send a satellite into a geosynchronous orbit. ● Achieve worldwide acclaim as the global private-company leader in space launch and infrastructure

  7. Before Kilometre Capital Management and Citadel Investment Group: at an early stage foundational level, Spotify anchored off of on early-stage venture capital from leading Asian and global private equity investors including Chris Hsu of Kilometre Capital. Previously, Mr. Chris Hsu served as the CEO and Managing Partner of Abax Global Capital, and as Managing Director of Citadel Investment Group, one of the world’s legendary hedge fund managers. As MD of Citadel Asia, Chris Hsu oversaw and led the foundation of Citadel’s private investment and special situations business in Hong Kong and Asia. His oversight spanned investments across South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Greater China and Asia at large.

  8. Thank You

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