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The Birth of Motherapp

Entrepreneurship is truly dear to the hearts of the MotherApp team.

Long before MotherApp, the two founders Ken and Leo met while in college. However, they soon parted ways, Ken to the Silicon Valley, while Leo stayed in Hong Kong. After obtaining a MS from Stanford, Ken became intrigued by Google. He joined the first group of interns, becoming a full-time employee in 2000. While there, Ken developed a patented algorithm to find related pages. He also led a project that allowed Google to evaluate its quality in real time. After four years at Google, Ken returned to Hong Kong to pursue a Ph.D. in Computer Science.

Leo worked as a software engineer for two years, but the serial entrepreneur inside of him urged him to quit and take the path less travelled. In 2000, he founded his first company on Interactive Voice Response System, which he sold it to ACT International in 2002. His second company, which he started in 2003, specialized in the implementation of government software projects. During this time period Leo’s startups survived the technology bust intact and he was more than ready for his next challenge.

In 2005, Ken and Leo started up a company that focused on the intersection between internet media and mobile. Consequently, Ken dropped out of his Ph.D. program, taking with him Hang, the best engineering student he knew at school. Hang had been an entrepreneur since high school, unlike the majority of students who preferred to find safer careers as big company employees.

During the first two years, the team endured several challenges that tested their persistence and vision. Their first two products were focused on the team’s internal objectives and not the market needs. Consequently, they both failed, placing tremendous stress on the team. Despite these early mistakes, the MotherApp team stuck together and aimed to conceive a new product that embodied the vision whole of using technology as an enabler for people to do what they couldn’t before, wholeheartedly. They became even more determined to apply this vision towards the successful launch of their third product. In late 2008, after more than a year of hard work, the MotherApp Generator was born. It became an instant success, allowing the company to break even right at the start. MotherApp's victories caught the attention of a forth entrepreneur, Hau Man. He was so convinced that he left his job at Google to commence his journey at MotherApp.

Where do we go from here? It is only the beginning and a grand adventure lies before us, waiting to be discovered. Instead of taking safe jobs at a large companies, we prefer to wear many hats and explore the great unknown. But the end goal is clear: To place the power of technology in your hands so that anyone, yes, even your five-year-old, can create an app and share it with the rest of the world.