About Stephen Wang

My Professional Story: I am a technology entrepreneur and product leader best known as a co-founder of Rotten Tomatoes, where I served as founding CTO, and later, headed our Rotten Tomatoes team after it’s acquisition by another company. I also co-founded Design Reactor, an agency in the San Francisco Bay Area that developed interactive games and web sites for entertainment studios, and Alive Not Dead, a social network connecting artists in the Asian entertainment industry and based in Hong Kong and Beijing. These experiences allowed me to help build companies on both sides of the Pacific.

In 2013, I joined Tencent in China in a product role for one of their leading apps. Since 2021, I have continued working with the same team, but now in an international leadership position based in Singapore.

• University of California, Berkeley Days (1993-1997)
• Design Reactor (1997-2000)
• Rotten Tomatoes (2000-2005)
• IGN Entertainment (2004-2005)
• Xiaban.com (2005-2006)
• Alive Not Dead (2007-2013)
• Tencent (2013-2019, 2021-now)

My Personal Story: I was born in the Ohio and grew up in Maryland and California. I later studied computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. Since then, I have been fortunate to call several places around the world home while working across the United States and Asia and am fluent in both English and Mandarin Chinese.

Watching films remains my primary hobby (which probably helps explain Rotten Tomatoes and Alive Not Dead). I also enjoy traveling and feel fortunate to have visited a wide range of countries, cities, and other memorable places around the world.

• Stephen's mini-autobiography
• My Favorite Films