Location: Venice Italian Restaurant, Songjiang Road, Taipei
Travel note summary: Wednesday at the Venice Italian Restaurant on Songjiang Road in Taipei is for the crypto crowd, while Friday switches to the tech industry. In the afternoon, Yu-Jia came up to Taipei from Hsinchu. First, we met with Ken, the CTO of Inline (an online reservation company), and his friend Curtis, who previously served as CFO in the media industry, to get acquainted and chat. Ken recently started playing with an Olympus DAO clone, and its market cap has already reached $4 million in just two months. Lately, I've been having some new ideas for projects. In the evening, Yu-Jia invited friends from companies like HTC, ASUS, SiFive (semiconductors), and Owen, whom we met last time from a U.S. robotics company, to gather for dinner. Among them, Tommy holds a professional sake sommelier license from Japan and shared a lot of knowledge about Japanese sake with everyone. He also brought a sake with gold flakes and another with complex, layered flavors—Shinshu Kirei Junmai Ginjo. By the second half of the meal, Hong-Qi, a comrade from our same class during military training at the Guanxi camp over a decade ago (lik…
