Hong Kong Stories - Inventors in Hong Kong：I Try, Therefore I Am

Are information technology specialists mostly poor communicators, introverted, passive, and pinned to their seats in front of their computers? Are workers in this industry inflexible, unvalued and miserable, just like the “IT dogs” that they jokingly call themselves? “Son of the Star” Stark Chan Yik-hei challenges this stereotype.

Stark Chan, 33, has morphed from a young inventor into the founder of a technology company. The decade-old business generates an annual revenue of millions of dollars, unlike most of its peers that shut down after a few years of operating on supports from start-up foundations. Stark humbly claims that he has little talent in running a business. However, he has a knack for sensing new trends, fame, and a distinct model of operation – serving large corporations to generate stable income while developing applications for SMEs to assist their digital transformation and help them stay competitive – on his side.

Stark Chan’s shot to fame occurred when he was just a teenager. People may have held on to a certain impression about him. Apart from the fact that he has a lot of curiosity, a keen interest in dismantling things then put them back together, and an asteroid named after him, what exactly is Stark doing? What kind of a person is he? In this episode, we follow him into the sky and out to the sea, to discover the real Stark Chan Yik-hei.