Full-Time MBA Student Profile Ray Liu, ’17
Senior Product Manager, Amazon, Seattle, WA
Hometown: Harbin, China
Education: People’s Public Security University of China, Bachelor of Law in Computer Related Crime Investigation; University of Auckland, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Before Booth: Service Delivery Manager, IBM, New Zealand
2016 Internship: Product management, VMWare, Palo Alto, CA
Ray Liu, ’17: ’ 00:04
Booth is doing an extremely great job at creating this supportive and worry-free environment for you to try out whatever you wanted.
Ray Liu, ’17: ’ 00:15
Originally from China, I finished my law degree eventually. Before coming to Booth I was a project manager focusing on middleware and mobile space.
Ray Liu, ’17: ’ 00:24
I was looking for a school with really a solid foundation. I can nail down those fundamentals. But also, I wanted to try something I wouldn't be able to try elsewhere. I wanted to do some entrepreneurial experiment.
Ray Liu, ’17: ’ 00:41
Our idea is to create a platform to help mobile game companies in the international market. So I-Corps is a program that gave you a microfunding. So we went through the full program now and we applied to the NVC.
Ray Liu, ’17: ’ 01:00
NVC is New Venture Challenge. We will work on the idea, so I will be able to apply those frameworks and tools I learned, and hopefully out of NVC we'll have a real business.
Ray Liu, ’17: ’01:14
So I live in Hyde Park with my wife and two-year-old son. We're expecting another boy at the end of June. Hyde Park is really a family-friendly community.
Ray Liu, ’17: ’ 01:27
The Partners Club is organizing a lot of interesting events. There's a subgroup called POLO, Parents of Little Ones. We get to hang out with other Boothies who have kids. I think this pay-it-forward spirit is really meaningful, and you can kind of touch it and feel it here.
Favorite Classes
Commercializing Innovation and Developing New Product Lab. Studying these two classes together gives me perspectives from “both sides of the table” in regards to my entrepreneurial ideas and how investors will examine the business.
Favorite Thing About Chicago
I am the father of a two-year-old and one on the way so there are many interesting places to go and for kids to have fun, such as museums and playgrounds.