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Bill Liao

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Born

Melbourne, Australia

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Bill Liao (born William Fu Wei Liao, 1967) is an Australian entrepreneur. He is a general partner with SOSventures and listed as an influential investor on Twitter.[1] He is married with three children and lives in Cork, Ireland.
Liao is a social networking pioneer,[2] author,[3] speaker,[4] and is engaged in not for profit work.[5] Among his non-profit endeavors he is a CoderDojo Co-Founder and champion and he has participated as an investor and volunteer in The Hunger Project in Uganda, New York and Mexico. He is Co-Founder of WeForest.org which has planted tens of millions of trees to reverse global warming. WeForest also lifts people out of poverty while restoring eco systems. [6]
He has also been appointed as a special diplomatic envoy f Bill Liao (born William Fu Wei Liao, 1967) is an Australian entrepreneur. He is a general partner with SOSventures and listed as an influential investor on Twitter.[1] He is married with three children and lives in Cork, Ireland.
Liao is a social networking pioneer,[2] author,[3] speaker,[4] and is engaged in not for profit work.[5] Among his non-profit endeavors he is a CoderDojo Co-Founder and champion and he has participated as an investor and volunteer in The Hunger Project in Uganda, New York and Mexico. He is Co-Founder of WeForest.org which has planted tens of millions of trees to reverse global warming. WeForest also lifts people out of poverty while restoring eco systems. [6]
He has also been appointed as a special diplomatic envoy for St Kitts and Nevis for sustainable development and the environment. Liao has contributed to the St Kitts and Nevis recovery fund for the sugar cane industry there.[7]
He is also a regular attendee at the TED conferences[8] and also the World Economic Forum New Champions conference.[9]
Liao was also the Director of Operations (DOO) of telecommunications company Davnet, which achieved the fastest capital value growth in the history of the Australian Stock exchange[10] and which aggregated Internet access in the riser space[11] of office buildings. Davnet was acquired by Japanese telecommunications carrier Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) in 1996. Liao left Davnet after the acquisition, turning his attention to other IT endeavors.
He was the first external investor in XING.com, then called openBC.com, which was founded by Lars Hinrichs in Germany in 2003. Later, Liao became a supervisory board member.[12]
In 2009, he founded WeForest.org, an organisation promoting reforestation as a way to combat global warming.[13] WeForest.org continues, with a stated goal of planting two trillion trees by 2020 and is run from Belgium by its current CEO Marie-Noelle Keijzer. Liao is still involved with WeForest and spoke at TED Long Beach 2011 about it.
He was an official part of the delegation of St Kitts and Nevis to the COP15 UN climate change summit in Copenhagen where he also promoted the science and concepts behind WeForest.org.[14]
In 2011, Liao joined SOSventures as their European Venture Partner specialising in Internet and social media. He has invested in Mark Little's Storyful[15] venture, and Silicon Republic.[16]
Bill Liao and James Whelton founded CoderDojo,[17] a not-for-profit organisation that teaches children how to code. It aims to teach children creative problem-solving skills and practical creative skills and was launched in Ireland in mid-2011. Liao and Whelton also hope to provide an outlet for children who know how to code to meet other children with similar interests and work on projects in an environment with their peers, similar to a co-working space but less formal. ...more

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	What the Tweet!?: Write Funny One-liners, Paraprosdokians, "Quotations" and Aphorisms for Twitter by Bill Liao (Goodreads Author), Deirdre Nuttall 3.34 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Creëren met <Code>: Bouw je eigen website by Clyde Hatter, Bill Liao (Goodreads Author) 4.48 avg rating — 23 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stone Soup: The Secret Recipe for Making Something from Nothing 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What the Tweet!? Write Funny One-liners, Paraprosdokians, "Quotations" and Aphorisms for Twitter liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forests: Reasons to be Hopeful by Bill Liao (Goodreads Author), Tutu Desmond (Foreword) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forests by Bill Liao (Goodreads Author), Desmond Tutu (Foreword) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Forests by Liao, Bill (2013) Hardcover 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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