Joe Chung

Joseph left the MAS PhD program to co-found Art Technology Group with Jeet Singh. ATG started as a boutique technology / design firm, but "pivoted" to an full-out large scale e-commerce platform software company with over 1,200 employees. They took ATG public in 1999 and it was eventually acquired by Oracle in 2010 for $1b. Several Media Lab alums played crucial roles in the company including Nathan Abramson, Andy Hong, Fumi Matsumoto, and Grace Colby, with guest appearances by John Underkoffler, Tinsley Galyean, Marty Friedmann, and Eran Egozy, amongst others.

Since ATG, Joseph has founded several other companies, still in partnership with Jeet, out of Redstar Ventures, a startup foundry they created in 2010. Joseph still very much works in company creation, but also moonlights in advising / supporting innovation for some larger groups including Eastern Bank, where he is a board director, and Fidelity Investments.