| Website | reality.org |
| @sw |
| Tufts, BA | |
| Cornell University, MBA | 2006 |
Susan Wu is the Founding Partner at the Obvious Corporation. She was most recently the cofounder of ohai, a games company dedicated to creating the world’s first massively social online games. She was formerly principal and venture advisor at Charles River Ventures. While at CRV, she was involved in the firm’s investments in Twitter, Conduit Labs (acquired by Zynga), Metaplace (acquired by Playdom/Disney), and LiveGamer. Susan is currently an active angel investor and advisor to emerging startups such as Square and Mixer Labs/GeoAPI (acquired by Twitter.)
Susan was formerly CMO of Apache Software Foundation, one of the world’s leading open source software organizations. She began her career as the chief architect of an early text Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) and was active in online gaming as a competitive Quake player and a key contributor to a leading Quake mod and open source gaming engine. A serial entrepreneur, Susan was the co-founder of a “Software as a Service†(SaaS) startup with a successful IPO, and a senior executive at a NASDAQ listed white hat security company.
Susan is well regarded as an entrepreneurial leader and pioneer of the virtual goods business model. Fast Company named Susan one of the “100 Most Creative People in Business†and one of the “Most Influential Women in Technology.†She was named by the San Jose Mercury News to be one of the “10 Most Influential People in Silicon Valley.â€
She has spoken at Le Web, SXSW, E3, GDC, Austin GDC, Web 2.0 Expo and many other conferences.
