Pei Li is currently the co-founder of Venue, was previously the founder of CodeMode, a small development agency specializing in building MVPs. Studied at University of Toronto after that he has worked as a software engineer at Wealthsimple.

We talked about growing in an unprivileged family, taking internships at companies like IBM, raising funds, building consultation firm and much more.

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OUTLINE

(0:00) - Growing up in a financially poor background

(4:23) - Landing internship at IBM, Shopify & Wealthsimple

(11:41) - First shot at building startup

(15:42) - Travelling & consulting

(24:05) - Joining Venue

(26:25) - Replacing in-person conferences

(30:00) - Venue's value proposition

(37:30) - Raising $4M

TOP EPISODES

77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]

75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread

74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust

68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast

62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]

Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shane Mac, Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Adam Jackson, Tyler Denk, Anshul Rustaggi, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.