Visual Bio of My Silicon Valley Adventures

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Interwoven (Nasdaq: IWOV, 1999);AdKnowledge (acq’d byCMGI, 1999);PurePayment (acq’d by iMall/Excite@Home, 1999);Bluelark Systems (acq’d by Handspring, 2001);Dante Software (acq’d by WebMethods, 2003);BigNetwork (acq’d bye-Universe/Internex, 1999,

then by News Corp as MySpace, 2005); ZipRealty (Nasdaq: ZIPR, 2005);

RedOctane (acq’d by Activision, 2006); Spreadtrum (Nasdaq: SPRD, 2007); Encentuate (acq’d by IBM,2008);Digital Fountain (acq’d by Qualcomm, 2009);CafePress (Nasdaq: PRSS, 2012);A Bit Lucky (acq’d byZynga, 2012);DeCarta (acq’d byUber, 2015).Nauto (a Playground portfolio company)

My Brief BioJohn F.C. Cheong is an angel investor and tech entrepreneur in Silicon Valley; withprofessional experiences spanning: FinTech, EdTech, and GPS car navigation. He writes theblog series: “Trading Wall Street from Silicon Valley” and holds the Series 65 investmentadvisor certification. John created and led the GPS car navigation business as founder andCEO of Space Machine from 1999-2012; co-founded KidSpring Studio to develop children’seducational apps for iPads during 2011-2012; and was a Computer Scientist at U.C. Berkeleyfrom 1995-1998. John was also the author of “Internet Agents” (1995).

John had participated in the early-stage financing of over 30 start-ups in Silicon Valley in thelast 20 years, resulting in 10 acquisitions and 4 successful IPOs):

John received the M.S. (1988) and Ph.D. (1992) degrees in Computer Science from theUniversity of Michigan, and the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering (high honors) from theUniversity of Texas at Austin in 1986.

John F.C. CheongSpace Machine, Inc.

303 Twin Dolphin Drive, Suite 600Redwood Shores, CA 94065

EXPERIENCE

2013-Present Space Machine, Inc., Redwood Shores, CACEO & Chief Scientist

2011-2012 KidSpring Studio, Sunnyvale, CACo-Founder & Investor

1999-2010 Space Machine, Inc., Sunnyvale, CAFounder, President and CEO

1997 AdKnowledge (f/k/a ClickOver), Inc., Palo Alto, CAFounding Investor

1995-1998 University of California, Berkeley, CAComputer Scientist

1992-1994 Enterprise Integration Technologies, Palo Alto, CASr. Software Engineer

1989 Summer Xerox Webster Research Center, Webster, NYSummer Intern

EDUCATION

1986-1992 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MIPh.D., M.S. Computer Science and Engineering

1983-1986 University of Texas, Austin, TXB.S. Electrical Engineering, High Honors

PUBLICATIONS

John F.C. Cheong. Blog series: Trading Wall Street from Silicon Valley. 47 postings to date from Oct 9, 2014 to Feb 18, 2016.

Fah-Chun Cheong (Editor). The Berkeley Digital Library Project: Quarterly and Annual Reports. 13 Total, Dec 1995 to Dec 1998. Internally published reports submitted to DARPA, NASA and NSF, and available on the web.

Fah-Chun Cheong. Internet Agents: Spiders, Wanderers, Brokers, and ‘Bots. New Riders Publishing, 1996.

Sandhya Narayan, Paul Losleben, and Fah-Chun Cheong. A market-based economic model for multi-media object storage and distribution. Proc. International Workshop on Multi-Media Database Management Systems, 1995.

Fah-Chun Cheong. Oasis: An agent-oriented programming language for heterogeneous distributed environment. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Michigan, 1992.

Fah-Chun Cheong. Almost tag-free garbage collection for strongly-typed object-oriented languages. Technical Report CSE-TR-126-92, University of Michigan, 1992.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

2015-2016 Team Advisor, Woodland Rocketeers, Woodland School.2015-2016 Den Leader, Cub Scout at Stratford School, Palo Alto.

CV Updated: February 2016

BLOG SERIES: “Trading Wall Street from Silicon Valley”

Mar 11, 2016 Basic Income History

Feb 18, 2016 Basic Income Design

Feb 18, 2016 From Triangle to Hexadecagon

Feb 17, 2016 Bandit Experiments

Feb 17, 2016 Community Currency

Feb 15, 2016 Binero vs. Dinero

Feb 15, 2016 Basic Income?

Feb 15, 2016 Alternate Outcomes

Nov 19, 2015 Working Together + Getting Along

Jun 19, 2015 The Star Thrower

Jun 16, 2015 Bridges and Tunnels

Jun 16, 2015 Tic-Tac-Toe

Jun 15, 2015 Lean Environment

Jun 14, 2015 All Else Being Equal

Jun 12, 2015 Numbers from Noise

May 31, 2015 Triffin Dilemma

May 30, 2015 Perpetual Imbalance

May 29, 2015 This Time is Different

May 7, 2015 All That Glitters…

Apr 24, 2015 Into the Woods

Apr 22, 2015 Stone Money

Apr 21, 2015 Planet Bitcoin

Apr 9, 2015 Quantamental Universe

Apr 9, 2015 Lean Experiments

Apr 8, 2015 Collective Intellect

Apr 7, 2015 Wisdom of the Tribe

Mar 28, 2015 Neither Brains nor Brawn

Mar 25, 2015 Who Domesticated Humans?

Jan 9, 2015 Work or Play?

Dec 12, 2014 Machine Intelligence

Dec 11, 2014 Cauldron of Changes

Dec 9, 2014 Stone Soup

Dec 4, 2014 Collective Invention

Nov 26, 2014 Economy of Attention

Nov 23, 2014 Participatory Universe

Nov 21, 2014 Invention or Discovery?

Nov 12, 2014 Quit, Stick or Pivot?

Nov 12, 2014 Causal Entropic Forces

Nov 10, 2014 Island Economy

Nov 7, 2014 Holographic Universe

Nov 1, 2014 Computationally Efficient Markets

Oct 29, 2014 The Limits of Reason

Oct 26, 2014 Why Computational Finance?

Oct 25, 2014 Maker and Taker: Catch Me If You Can

Oct 17, 2014 A Ship and A Treasure Map

Oct 13, 2014 Human vs. Bot: Rise of the Machines

Oct 13, 2014 Minimum Viable Business Model

Oct 8, 2014 A Journey of Discovery

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