Primary Job Title Co-founder and CEO Primary Organization 
Minus
Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
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Carl Hu is Cofounder and CEO of Minus, a mobile chat and photo sharing application. Prior to Minus, Hu served as the Principal Engineer of Amazon.com; the Chief Technology Officer at Appzero.com; and Director of Technology at Progress Software.
Hu also invented the lockless threadsafe queue, widely used in the Windows NT Kernel, while at
Microsoft Research in Redmond. For six years, he helped build SQL Server's query processing and storage engine. Hu graduated in Physics from the University of Toronto.
