Timothy Chou has been lucky enough to have a career spanning academia, successful (and not so successful) startups and large corporations. As President of Oracle On Demand he grew the cloud business from it’s very beginning. Today he serves on the Board of Directors of Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB) and Teradata (NYSE:TDC). He started his career at one of the original Kleiner Perkins startups, Tandem Computers. Today as the Chairman of the Alchemist Accelerator he is focused on next generation enteprise software startups. Finally, he started teaching at Stanford University in 1982 and launched the university’s first class on cloud computing. His second landmark book Precision: Principals, Practices and Solutions for the Internet of Things was recently translated and published in Vietnam.