This is a conversation about massive success in social media and online business. Ro is a seasoned Silicon Valley executive, well spoken, articulate and down to earth. In this brief podcast he shares some key principles on the road to success.
Ro Choy is not the typical internet entrepreneur, we kid around because even though he has had a couple of massive successes it was not all a cake walk for the Stanford grad. He and his wife worked together as a team in a few of the ventures. He shares the story of how he was able to get auto dealerships to warm up to his business proposition. It might have been something like reverse sex discrimination…if there is such a thing.
Ro’s automotive experience got him on the path to e-Bay Motors managing a $2 Billion parts business unit on e-Bay. Find out how Ro made his payroll using e-Bay, most entrepreneurs have to get creative when times are tough.
Ro is now with Rock You, a leading application provider on the web. Driving 40,000,000 — 50,000,000 users with widget applications and 700,000,000 page views on a monthly basis these guys are using some serious bandwidth. Reaching these kinds of numbers was no accident. One of the key ingredients to success at Rock You is a team that can dynamically engineer also called viral engineering, responding to client demands and requests Meeting the needs of the user is key especially if you want to keep 40,000,000 – 50,000,000 unique users per month satisfied.
Here is another interview with Ro Choy with talking about the power of widgets and Facebook applications. This interview is courtsey of Jeremiah Owyang of Forrester Research.
