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Andy Chen
Andrew Chen is a co-founder and the CEO of
PowerReviews, Inc., a technology company that provides the customer
reviews platform for Internet retailers such as Staples and Toys R
Us<ref>http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070918006009&newsLang=en</ref>.
Biography
Andrew
Chen (
1971-10-24
– in
Wellsville , New York) is an
American entrepreneur. He lives in San Francisco,
California.
Together with Robert Chea, Chen founded
PowerReviews, a privately-held Silicon
Valley start-up in 2005. The duo moved on the idea that
user-generated product reviews, particularly reviews from verified
buyers of a given product, could play a critical role in the online
shopping research experience. The company recently completed a
second round of venture funding in September
2007.<ref>http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/10/more-money-for-product-reviews-powerreviews-lands-15-million/</ref>
Prior
to PowerReviews, Chen founded
Fogdog
Sports, an early online sporting goods storefront, along with
Brett Allsop and Robert Chea.<ref>
Profiles of
Successful Internet Businesses: Field of Dreams: Sports on The
Web.</ref> Several years after Fogdog was acquired by
GSI Commerce,
Chen joined Yahoo! Shopping.
References and notes
External links
PowerReviews: corporate bio San
Mateo Daily Journal: interview Get Elastic: eTail
midmarket podcast