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Jacky Chou (Taiwanese: 周琦傑 (Chou Chi-Chieh); born January 20th, 1992) is a Taiwanese businessman and CEO. He is a founder of Indexsy, Far & Away, Laurel & Wolf and Towing Less. He serves as the chairman of Indexsy Inc., currently.

Early life
Growing up with his mother and father in Richmond, British Columbia, Chou attended Richmond High Secondary School, where he was in the International Baccalaureate programme. He excelled at piano and also on the basketball court, where he played for the senior team. Chou credits his parents for instilling a strong work ethic in him from a young age; his drive and perseverance was clear to his professors and classmates throughout his formal education.

Career
Chou’s career started the moment that he searched “How to make money online” on Google, just a day before he failed one of his electrical engineering exams. Chou learned the fundamentals of digital marketing from online resources. This helped him move to Berlin for an internship at a mobile marketing agency. Having started as an intern, Chou moved up the ladder quickly, becoming a marketing director in under two years. At this time, Chou began to start some businesses of his own, and decided finally to go it alone when one of his dropshipping ventures took off and began to generate $250k USD a month. Chou has since sold this initial enterprise, one of his very first, to a private equity firm for an undisclosed amount.

Since the exit, Chou has focused primarily on two projects. Firstly, Chou has aggressively grown Far & Away, a direct-to-consumer homeware brand, which raised nearly €70k Euros on Kickstarter and €150k Euros in angel funding. Secondly, Chou has voraciously, and successfully, bought and sold a number of digital assets via his parent company, Indexsy. According to the Indexsy website, the company boasts more than 50 managed assets, but is best known for the purchase and management of Laurel & Wolf and Towing Less.