Victor Tsao (born 1951), or Ts'ao Ying-wei, is a Taiwanese-American entrepreneur born in Taiwan and hardware engineer. Tsao and his wife Janie co-founded Linksys, a consumer home networking pioneer, and sold the company to Cisco Systems for $500 million in 2003.
Early life and career
Born Ts'ao Ying-wei,[1] Tsao received his bachelor's degree in computer science at Tamkang University in Tamsui, Taiwan. At the university, he met his future wife and business partner, Wu Jian (later known as Janie Tsao), an English literature major.[2]
Janie Tsao moved to the United States in 1975, and a year later, Victor went to Chicago to attend graduate school at Illinois Institute of Technology, where he obtained his master's degree in computer science in 1980.[2]