Nicholas Paine visits WorldFriends’ Shanghai Office
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
Nicholas Paine, and some of us from the WorldFriends team
We had the pleasure of having Nicholas Paine, Board Executive Chairman of Meta4 Group visit our Shanghai office last week.
On Monday evening, we had a good Happy Hour session with Nick as we chatted with him. He spoke of how the consumer Internet industry is a rapidly changing one, requiring all of us to keep up. He also joked about returning all our teachers’ and parents’ teachings, as we most probably have to reinvent many of those theories to stay relevant in the fast-moving industry. Having been both an investor and entrepreneur, Nick shared how he loves building things and dealing with organizational structure. His beginnings with the Internet industry started way back in 1987, when trying to get the bank to even understand consumer Internet was a pretty daunting task.
Nick was the co-founder of Lavalife, and worked with his multicultural co-founders — a WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) (Nick himself), a Jamaican, an American born Chinese, and a Lebanese. No wonder he has so much passion for the international community at WorldFriends!
See you again soon, Nick!