When Jameson Hsu came to Taiwan from the San Francisco Bay Area in early 2020, he was fleeing Covid-19. “We thought we would stay a few weeks,” said Hsu, a serial tech entrepreneur from a Taiwanese-American family.
A year later, he is still in Taipei after founding a new company and becoming involved in mentoring and investment for local start-ups.
Hsu is part of a wave of American tech entrepreneurs that has hit Taiwan’s shores. From Steve Chen, co-founder of YouTube, to Susan Wu, an investor who was involved in the early stages of Twitter, dozens of global tech entrepreneurs are sheltering from the pandemic in the country. They are also trying to help Taiwan build the viable and dynamic start-up sector that has long eluded it.