Tien Tzuo

Tien Tzuo
Born1968 (age 56–57)[1]
Taiwan
Alma materCornell University (BS)
Stanford University (MBA)
Occupation(s)Co-founder, chairman & CEO, Zuora
Years active1990–present
SpouseMariana Tzuo[2]
Children1[1]

Tien Tzuo (born 1968) is a Taiwanese-born American tech entrepreneur. He is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Zuora, and prior to that was chief strategy officer of Salesforce.

Early life and education

Tzuo was born in Taiwan, and when he was 3 years old his family moved to the Flatbush section of Brooklyn.[3][4] His parents were psychology professors, and his father also worked as an importer-exporter and in real estate.[3]

Tzuo graduated from Hunter College High School in 1986, earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at Cornell University, worked at Oracle Corporation in Manhattan for six years, and then earned his Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Stanford University Graduate School Of Business.[1][5]

Salesforce

He worked for about a year at enterprise software company CrossWorlds.[5] In 1999, he was hired at cloud computing company Salesforce as its eleventh employee. He worked there for nine years and would become Salesforce's first chief marketing officer and then chief strategy officer.[6][7][8]

Zuora

In 2007, Tzuo left Salesforce to launch Zuora as its founding CEO.[5][6] The California-based enterprise software company creates and provides subscription management software to help other companies with their subscription-based services.[7][9][10] Within a few weeks of its initial public offering on April 12, 2018, Zuora was valued at over $2 billion, and Tzuo's 10% stake in the company was worth an estimated $193 million.[11][9]

Tzuo's book Subscribed: Why the Subscription Model Will Be Your Company's Future - and What to Do About It, written with Gabe Weisert, was published by Portfolio on June 5, 2018.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b c Bessette, Chanelle (10 June 2014). "10 Questions: Tien Tzuo, founder and CEO, Zuora". Fortune. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  2. ^ Tzuo, Tien (5 June 2018). Subscribed : why the subscription model will be your company's future - and what to do about it. Penguin. ISBN 978-0525536468. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  3. ^ a b Bryant, Adam (6 January 2017). "Tien Tzuo of Zuora: 'Don't Expect Me to Manage You'". New York Times. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  4. ^ Feldman, Amy (4 November 2015). "Zuora's Tien Tzuo Had A Big Idea For Software To Drive The Subscription Economy -- He Almost Blew It". Forbes. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  5. ^ a b c Rogers, Bruce (23 August 2016). "Tien Tzuo's Zuora Set To Capitalize On Subscription Economy It Helped Build". Forbes. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  6. ^ a b Kim, Eugene (17 April 2015). "11 super successful tech leaders who struggled when they first arrived in America". Business Insider. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  7. ^ a b Gage, Deborah (11 March 2015). "Zuora Raises $115 Million to Fuel Subscription Economy". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  8. ^ Miller, Ron. "Zuora Orders aims to drive subscription renewals and expansion". TechCrunch. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  9. ^ a b Lin, Serena (30 April 2018). "CEO of billion-dollar Zuora reveals a key management lesson he learned the hard way". CNBC. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  10. ^ Paredes, Divina (3 August 2015). "Doing business with Tien Tzuo of Zuora: CMO to CEO". CIO. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  11. ^ Bort, Julie (12 April 2018). "Zuora soars in its IPO, and the founder's stake is worth nearly $200 million — 5 years after the company hit rocky times". Business Insider. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
  12. ^ Broughton, Philip Delves (17 July 2018). "'Subscribed' Review: For a Flat Monthly Fee". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 16 November 2018.