Charles Shen

Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

๐Ÿ“ Irvine, California, United States๐Ÿ”„ Updated September 2026๐Ÿ’ผ 2 investments๐Ÿ“… 14 years investing๐Ÿ—“ Last invested Sep 2014
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Board Member
Sep 2014
ThrivePass is a rapidly growing technology company dedicated to innovating the world of employee benefits. Its holistic benefits suite creates experiences that support employee wellbeing throughout the employment lifecycle. To that end, ThrivePass uses technology to foster employee wellbeing from on-boarding to off-boarding all from one single log in.
Board Member
2012
Wishlist helps companies recognize and reward their employees through meaningful employee recognition and memorable rewards. We help modern HR teams create an inclusive company culture and give employees one centralized platform to recognize individual and team contributions driving key business results. The Wishlist platform allows organizational leaders to recognize and reward employees using a top-down recognition strategy while allowing peers to recognize each other using a peer-to-peer approach to align with your company's core values. The Wishlist platform can be used to reward employees for exceptional performance, birthdays, work anniversaries, or a variety of other life events. Our mission at Wishlist is to amplify company performance through igniting the power of people. We've spent the last decade developing an experiential rewards marketplace to give your employees the power of choice. From experiences to subscription boxes, we have it all! Let Wishlist help you create a cohesive company culture driven by employee recognition and rewards.
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2019
Senior Partner Solutions Architect, Microsoft Platform
Nov 2019
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing. The ultimate benefit of cloud computing, and AWS, is the ability to leverage a new business model and turn capital infrastructure expenses into variable costs. Businesses no longer need to plan and procure servers and other IT resources weeks or months in advance. Using AWS, businesses can take advantage of Amazons expertise and economies of scale to access resources when their business needs them, delivering results faster and at a lower cost. Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. With data center locations in the U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan, customers across all industries are taking advantage of our low cost, elastic, open and flexible, secure platform.
2014
Co-Founder / CTO
Sep 2014
ThrivePass is a rapidly growing technology company dedicated to innovating the world of employee benefits. Its holistic benefits suite creates experiences that support employee wellbeing throughout the employment lifecycle. To that end, ThrivePass uses technology to foster employee wellbeing from on-boarding to off-boarding all from one single log in.
Co-Founder / CTO / Software Engineer / M&A
Sep 2014
ThrivePass is a rapidly growing technology company dedicated to innovating the world of employee benefits. Its holistic benefits suite creates experiences that support employee wellbeing throughout the employment lifecycle. To that end, ThrivePass uses technology to foster employee wellbeing from on-boarding to off-boarding all from one single log in.
Board Member
Sep 2014
ThrivePass is a rapidly growing technology company dedicated to innovating the world of employee benefits. Its holistic benefits suite creates experiences that support employee wellbeing throughout the employment lifecycle. To that end, ThrivePass uses technology to foster employee wellbeing from on-boarding to off-boarding all from one single log in.
2012
Co-Founder / CTO / Software Engineer
2012
Wishlist helps companies recognize and reward their employees through meaningful employee recognition and memorable rewards. We help modern HR teams create an inclusive company culture and give employees one centralized platform to recognize individual and team contributions driving key business results. The Wishlist platform allows organizational leaders to recognize and reward employees using a top-down recognition strategy while allowing peers to recognize each other using a peer-to-peer approach to align with your company's core values. The Wishlist platform can be used to reward employees for exceptional performance, birthdays, work anniversaries, or a variety of other life events. Our mission at Wishlist is to amplify company performance through igniting the power of people. We've spent the last decade developing an experiential rewards marketplace to give your employees the power of choice. From experiences to subscription boxes, we have it all! Let Wishlist help you create a cohesive company culture driven by employee recognition and rewards.
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