Meng Weng Wong

Co-Founder, Legalese.com

Meng is an entrepreneur, investor, and technologist, specializing in deep-tech internet infrastructure and open-source startups. In 1995, he co-founded pobox.com, an early commercial email service. In 2003 he led the development and global adoption of the email standard SPF (RFC4408). In 2005 he co-founded a venture-funded Big Data startup which was later sold to FICO. In Singapore, he co-founded hackerspace.sg and JFDI.Asia which pioneered startup acceleration in Southeast Asia. His background in innovation is informed by Everett Rogers, Geoffrey Moore, Clayton Christensen, William Janeway, Mariana Mazzucato, and Simon Wardley, and by investing in over 70 startups. He has held fellowships at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and at Ca’Foscari University of Venice in computational linguistics. He programs in Perl, Javascript, Prolog, and Haskell.

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