Jeff Huang Goes On Blockchain Insight

Popular entrepreneur, Jeff Huang, will be the one of the first guests to be interviewed on Korean TV show “Blockchain Insight”. The show will be aired in the coming weeks

Early Trials of Jeff Huang

Jeffrey Huang was born in Huwei Township, Yunlin County, Taiwan on the 7th of November 1972. After leaving Taiwan at the age of two, Jeffrey and his family relocated to Southern California. Fast forward sixteen years later and Huang — together with Stanley, his brother and Steven Lin, his cousin — had established a hip hop group known as L.A. Boyz. With the guidance of singer Irene Yeh, the ‘Boyz’ embarked on a career in entertainment.

The L.A. Boyz’s style involved merging elements of hip-hop, rap, and street dance from America. With this balance, the L.A. Boyz became a huge hit in the Taiwanese world of pop. However, Huang wasn’t put on the same pedestal as his brother Stanley or cousin Steven.

The L.A. Boyz disbanded in 1997 and Steven went back to the United States — ultimately becoming an orthopedic surgeon. Stanley Huang remained in the music scene and in 2005, he won a Golden Melody Award for Best Male Vocalist. Meanwhile, it wasn’t smooth sailing for Jeff Huang at first. During one point, he was a media host. However, as a native speaker of both English and Taiwanese, his responses in Mandarin weren’t as effective as he would’ve hoped.

Huang also embarked on a host of other businesses that included a restaurant, a limited edition shoe store, and a club. The shoe store didn’t recoup its investment and the restaurant didn’t earn as much as Huang would’ve liked. With regards to the club, Huang sold off his shares and got out of the business amidst reports that it owed suppliers money.

This didn’t dampen Huang’s resolve to succeed and these numerous rollercoaster rides ultimately strengthened Huang’s entrepreneurial know-how when it came to decision making.

Huang — in 1998 — established an internet service provider company that translated websites in the US. During its peak, the company employed 80 workers — also gaining close to $7 million in profit. During the “dot-com bubble”, he sold the company to a Japanese company. This then began the start of his love for IT businesses of which he has succeeded tremendously.

Projects and Accomplishments

Since the sale of his internet service provider company, Huang has gone on to establish other successful enterprises.

17 App

17 is a free mobile app that shares likenesses in features with Periscope and Instagram. It provides features that include live video streaming, and instant photo and video sharing. This app is compatible with both iOS and Android platforms. 17 is aimed at creating a platform that is easy to use. It was launched on 5th June 2015 on the Apple App Store and the launch on Play Store came some five days later.

Due to the plethora of Asian celebrities on the app and its reward incentives, it became a big hit in large parts of Asia. Ultimately, the app emerged as the most popular app in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia — with approximately over 700,000 daily users. Users of the 17 app can even earn money off the number of people viewing their live stream.

Mithril and Lit App

Mithril is a decentralized social media platform that provides incentives to content creators. With the help of “social mining”, users can earn tokens regardless if they’re a celebrity or an established social media influencer. Mithril makes use of its Lit app — a social media platform that enables the social mining of MITH — to reward content creators and contributors to the Mithril network. This contribution can come in posting statuses, stories or via instant messaging.

The Lit app can even be dubbed the “Blockchain Snapchat” due to their close similarities — but with one major difference being Lit’s reward based platform. The extent of the reward will largely depend on a mathematical formula. This formula will analyze the amount of views, likes and ‘watch time’ to determine the amount of MITH to be allocated.

Catch Jeffrey Huang, founder of both the 17 app and the Lit app on “Blockchain Insight” in the coming weeks.