Hi, I'm really excited about my next guest.

Bill Ty was introduced to me by a mutual friend,

and he said, listen, this guy's super fascinated's super fascinating got an amazing story

you see he's been around Silicon Valley from the early days he's invested in

an extraordinary amount of businesses as a VC he's built many businesses and he really sees that juxtaposition between

finance and Silicon Valley and technology that I think is becoming more and more important

to all of us.

And I really want to dig into some of those stories,

get his journey of discovery, because I think within that journey of discovery

is going to be a lot for us all to learn from.

So I hope you enjoy Real Vision. I've been looking forward in this conversation, you and I caught up on the phone and I think we've got lots of things to talk about because you've got and have had your finger in many many pies.

I'd love people to get a bit of the background about yourself because you've got a hugely

interesting and different background.

Yeah, well, I, my parents are from Taiwan. I grew up in the Midwest mostly and I ended up becoming a hardware hacker at kind of a you know teenager age following a

Following a schematic from Steve jobs and Steve Wozniac who had

built a little phone hacking device called a blue box that got into electronics. I ended up studying electrical engineering and a little bit of

computer design, became a semiconductor chip designer, and I came out the Silicon Valley

in the mid-80s when it was still

orchards and I joined a startup started by the CEO of Fairchild

Semiconductor. That startup was called Ellis I logic and the other sort of big name startups at the time were Intel and AMD National Semiconductor.

LSI Logic was a successful company. I ended up leaving there to have a very brief stint to help the government of Taiwan put together a spreadsheet that got built out for a factory that became Taiwan Semiconductor, which is now a 200 billion market cap company.

I then went to Alex Brown and Sons, which many people don't know that name, but it was a tiny boutique investment bank.

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