Primary Job Title Co-Founder Primary Organization Fara
Location Mountain View, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
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Josh Chen is a Co-Founder at Fara. Josh previously worked at Yintai.com as a Vice Technical Director. He attended Southwest China Normal University.
Josh grew up in a rural village in China. A college dropout, Josh moved to Shanghai 10 years ago and taught himself to program before landing a $100usd/month web development job. Josh continued
to hone his programming skills which landed him an engineering position at Newegg.com.
Most recently, Josh led the development, launch and scaling of Yintai.com (a popular fashion e-commerce site in China) as the site grew from $0 to $50 million in sales. Josh has been building full-stack, massive e-commerce platforms for 8 years.
Prior to Monogram, Josh founded Packagetrackr.com (a side project) and grew the site to 2 million monthly page views and 40,000 registered users. Josh teamed up with Leo in 2011 to work on Packagetrackr and launched an iPhone version of the package tracking app. Packagetrackr generates enough revenue to cover Josh & Leo's living expenses.