april 2014 BCBusiness 59
Eric Diep
Co-founder, A Thinking Ape
Technologies Inc.
Age: 29
A
t 22, Eric Diep dropped out of the
University of Waterloo and booked
a one-way flight to San Francisco. A
software developer persistently in
search of creative freedom and owner-
ship, he gained traction developing
Facebook apps and quizzes before he
met Kenshi Arasaki and Wilkins Chung,
fellow Canadian expats working at
Amazon. The trio established A Think-
ing Ape, a mobile-game company, and
qualified for Y Combinator, a Mounta-
inview, California, accelerator whose
graduates include AirBnB, Reddit and
Dropbox, among other companies. Fast-
forward five years, and the company
has relocated to Vancouver, and has 60
employees at its Gastown office. —J.P.
GRADUATES OF
Y COMBINATOR
AIRBNB
DROPBOX
REDDIT
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