About Paul

This is about some of what I do…

I recently wrote a new book on the “Why Now” question — or how timing impacts product success.

I help companies understand and improve their unit economics (Lifetime Value and Customer Acquisition Cost) and then use that to guide their growth strategy. Based on my time helping companies, I wrote a book on unit economics called Growth Units.

I build startup accelerators and incubators, including the University of Southern California’s Incubator (a program for businesses created by alumni, students, and faculty), AcceleratorHK (Hong Kong’s first startup accelerator), the Laudato Si startup accelerator in Rome (partnered with the Vatican), and a community health incubator for the Humana Foundation and Volunteers of America.

Earlier I co-founded a B2B startup in New York, where I learned a lot of lessons the hard way.

I have consulted and spoken extensively on incubators/accelerators and product development at Fortune 500 firms and funded startups. Here are testimonials from some companies I’ve helped.

My work has been in media including TechCrunch, Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and more. I advise startups, corporates & institutions.

I graduated from Cornell and Columbia and was one of the winners at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon. I’m fluent in Mandarin and ok in Cantonese. Since I’ve been teaching at USC, I wrote multiple published case studies on incubators and accelerators.

I also wrote over 100 articles on unintended consequences.