About Me

The quote ‘condensing fact from the vapor of nuance’ comes from one of my favorite books, Snowcrash. The line is spoken by Juanita, a hacker/forensic anthropologist.

I love adventures. Things I would like to do in my life: photojournalist, anthropologist, circus performer, human rights activist, poet.

I greatly admire people who have the strength of conviction. Life is so very short. Our lives are the daily practice of intention.

Susan Wu is a world recognized leader and innovator in the Technology industry, particularly as a pioneer of the virtual goods industry. Her work has been rooted in her long-abiding passion for how technology can catalyze social and economic change.

Fast Company Magazine named Susan one of the “100 Most Creative People in Business” and one of the “Most Influential Women in Technology.” She was named by the San Jose Mercury News as one of the “10 Most Influential in Silicon Valley.”

Susan is currently the founder and CEO of ohai, a technology startup focused on innovation in the online gaming space. ohai is dedicated to building social games that brings the power of connected play to better peoples’ everyday lives. Susan is also an active angel investor and advisor to emerging startups such as Square and Mixer Labs/GeoAPI (acquired by Twitter.)

Susan was formerly Principal and Venture Advisor at Charles River Ventures, where she focused on investments in consumer web and infrastructure technology. Previously, Susan was CMO of Apache Software Foundation, one of the world’s leading open source software organizations.

She began her path in technology as the chief architect of an early text Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) and was active in online gaming as a competitive Quake player and a key contributor to a leading Quake mod and open source gaming engine. A serial entrepreneur, Susan was the co-founder of a “Software as a Service” (SaaS) startup with a successful IPO, and a senior executive at a publicly traded digital security company.

She has been a featured speaker at Le Web, SxSW, E3, GDC, Casual Connect, Austin GDC, Web 2.0 Expo and many other conferences.