Victor Tsao

Taiwanese-born American entrepreneur

Victor Tsao (born 1951), or Ts'ao Ying-wei (Chinese: 曹英偉; pinyin: Cáo Yīngwěi), is a Taiwanese-American entrepreneur born in Taiwan and hardware engineer. Tsao and his wife Janie co-founded Linksys, a consumer home networking pioneer, and sold the company to Cisco Systems for $500 million in 2003.2

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Born 1951.1

Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedIllinois Institute of Technology3
  • Date not recordedPepperdine University3
  • Date not recordedTamkang University3

Born Ts'ao Ying-wei, Tsao received his bachelor's degree in computer science at Tamkang University in Tamsui, Taiwan. At the university, he met his future wife and business partner, Wu Jian (later known as Janie Tsao), an English literature major.

Janie Tsao moved to the United States in 1975, and a year later, Victor went to Chicago to attend graduate school at Illinois Institute of Technology, where he obtained his master's degree in computer science in 1980. The couple married and moved to California after graduate school. He worked in various computer-related jobs at Montgomery Ward, Kraft Foods, TRW and Taco Bell, and earned a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from Pepperdine University.

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Career

Occupation: businessperson.5

Personal life

  • Born1951, Taiwan6
  • CitizenshipTaiwan7

Tsao and his wife have two sons, Michael and Steven. Through the Tsao Family Foundation, they work with the Center for Asian American Media to produce documentaries "promoting understanding and communication."

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