ABOUT MIKKOH
Mikkoh Chen is a Taiwanese-American entrepreneur, advisor, investor, and diversity champion. This Los Angeles native turned New Yorker has dedicated his career to help build and scale companies across wellness, digital health, and recruiting technology.
As a strategist focused on engineering operational excellence, Mikkoh has led departments in product management, analytics, and business operations at hyper growth startups including Hired.com, Emissary.io, The Assemblage, and Trusted Health. In addition, Mikkoh is the founding Chief Operating Officer of PACT Management, a private hedge fund, former CEO & Founder of ZenCo Health, and advises various startups within the future of work and health & wellness.
Driven to engineer scalable platforms that aim to shift societal norms and create greater equity across all mediums, Mikkoh also joined Gold House as their founding General Manager of Futures — a next generation accelerator for API founders, creatives, and social impact leaders. Through this experience, he was instrumental in crafting partnerships with industry titans including Netflix, Tribeca Studios, Spotify, Live Nation, Condé Nast, and Meta. He first began his career here as the co-founder of Gold Rush, the nation’s leading API-focused accelerator, and built an ecosystem of successfully exited founders and distinguished investors through Gold House’s Angel & Founder Networks.
Mikkoh graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a dual Bachelors degree in Management Science & Psychology and a minor in Accounting.
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Microdose Psychedelic Insights
Mikkoh Chen | People Working in the Psychedelic Industry
Gold House seeks to cultivate the next generation of API leaders with its Futures program
“Instead of waiting for seats at others’ existing tables, we’re here to build our own: ones that are uniquely us,” said Mikkoh Chen, head of Futures. “With the backing of industry luminaries and the world’s largest platforms, Gold House Futures is equipping the next generation of creative and company leaders with career-making, life-changing resources to achieve authentic representation and commercial success.”
Cheddar News
Nonprofit collective Gold House is launching a suite of ventures to uplift the AAPI community through representation, economic, and individual empowerment. Mikkoh Chen, the Co-Director of the Gold Rush accelerator program, joined Cheddar to discuss.
Psyfront | Psychedelic Industry
Interview with Mikkoh Chen, CEO of ZenCo Health
“The cards are stacked against those who can truly heal the world. We believe that there is a new age of wellness, and in an effort to support what we think can have the most impact, and the Psychedelic Renaissance is the best place to start. “
VICE | MUNCHIES
Asian Food Companies Need Support Right Now, and This Accelerator Is Helping: Gold Rush provides resources for Asian-led food and drinks companies. In the climate of COVID-19, that's more needed than ever.
Yelp
“Asian American and Pacific Islander crimes haven’t stopped — alarmingly, they’ve come even closer to home, present in our communities from Chinatowns to Filipinotowns. We hope Yelp’s new business attribute for AAPI business owners helps drive safe foot traffic into each enclave, benefits local communities economically, and provides community-driven oversight and action into the safety of our neighbors and elders for years to come.” - Mikkoh Chen & Megan Ruan
AUTHORITY MAGAZINE
Mikkoh Chen of Trusted Health: “How We Plan To Rebuild In The Post COVID Economy”
The new normal will be an environment where people will unrelentingly ask the question “why”
THRIVE GLOBAL
Why It’s Time for Asian Prime Day — AKA Gold Rush
"Diversity isn't just beautiful. It's smart business."
Facebook | Busting Business Myths
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