He founded a startup in Silicon Valley in his early career, and the company was recognized as one of the Top 500 Online Retailers in the United States. He has worked for a SoftBank-backed dot-com company in the San Francisco Bay Area, and also led a deep-tech startup accelerator that has graduated over 100 research-driven startup teams and helped raise more than US$200 million in total funding. He currently serves on the boards of several companies.