September 02, 2020

Kun Gao // Ep 10 // Building the World’s Most Popular Anime Brand, Crunchyroll

51 minutes

Welcome to Episode 10 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Kun Gao on this week's episode.

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Kun is Co-Founder and former CEO of Crunchyroll, the world's largest destination for anime and manga, with more than 50 million registered users and over 2 million subscribers. At Crunchyroll, Kun spearheaded international content, business development, corporate strategy, monetization, marketing, and brand.

He brings 15 years of experience in consumer media, including founding social mapping service Frappr, product and engineering roles at Slide and HOTorNOT. Kun graduated from U.C. Berkeley with honors B.S. in Electrical Engineer and Computer Science and B.A. in Applied Mathematics in 2004, and was a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon focusing on Database research.

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