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Victor Wong
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Victor Wong (victorw@pwrtools.com) Born in Hong Kong in 1967, Victor got on a plane and flew to the United States by himself when he was seven because he was bored with Hong Kong. He stayed with his uncle in Los Angeles for 4 years, until his parents moved to the States because he wouldn't go back. A graduate of the University of Texas (Austin) in 1986 with a degree in economics, his first job was with Bottom Line distribution where he learned to love the Macintosh Platform. Since then, he's served as the VP of North American sales for CRA systems and co-founded XLR8. He recently co-founded PowerTools and now serves as its CEO. He wants to run for senator some day.
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Victor Wong was a first generation Chinese-American born in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1927 to recent immigrants. His father was a Confucian scholar who had established himself as a journalist in Shanghai before migrating with his Baptist wife. Young Victor and his younger siblings were forced to go to the First Chinese Baptist Church every week, and Victor was affected by this, often proselytizing on the streets of San Francisco with his brother Zepplin.
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Victor Wong graduated with a BSc in Electrical Engineering in 1989 when the industry of digital media was only beginning to emerge. The fast development of the industry in the past decade means that what Victor learned in school is constantly being transformed; Victor relies on the internet to continuously update himself with new cutting edge technologies that allow him to produce work of a high standard and relevance in the digital media industry.
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As the father, Victor Wong (who in real life was a Jack Kerouac companion and one of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters) is a charming, small-time manipulator. "You know what to do with this?" he asks his son, grabbing his own, uh, area of concern.
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Victor Wong was born in San Francisco on July 31, 1927. He was the eldest son of the late Sare King Wong, a Chinese calligrapher, journalist, poet and advisor to Chiang Kai-Shek, Taiwan’s president at the time. His mother Alice taught at a Chinese language school. When Wong was 3, his family moved to Locke to open a school in nearby Courtland for the children of Chinese farmers and laborers. The Wongs returned to San Francisco three years later. He spent his childhood in the bachelor society of Chinatown.
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The memory of Victor Wong will be honored at three different memorial events in the coming weeks. The first will occur at 2 p.m. this Sunday, October 21, at the First Unitarian Universalist Church, 1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco (415) 334-5844. B.L. Kennedy is dedicating this year’s 21st annual Kerouac tribute reading to the memory of Victor Wong. It will be held at 7 p.m, October 26, at the Gallery Horse Cow, 1409 Del Paso Blvd. in Sacramento (916) 922-9142. Wong’s family and friends in Sacramento are holding another special memorial at 2 p.m. on November 24... at the Gallery Horse Cow, 1409 Del Paso, Sacramento.
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