Simon Tian

January 9, 2024
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Simon Tian
Full Name Simon Tian
Occupation Businessperson
Date Of Birth Feb 24, 1994(1994-02-24)
Age 30
Birthplace Montreal
Country Canada
Birth City Quebec
Horoscope Aquarius

Simon Tian Biography

Name Simon Tian
Birthday Feb 24
Birth Year 1994
Place Of Birth Montreal
Home Town Quebec
Birth Country Canada
Birth Sign Aquarius

Simon Tian is one of the most popular and richest Businessperson who was born on February 24, 1994 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Tian is a native of Montreal, Quebec, in 1994. He grew up in Brossard an area that is located in the suburbs of Montreal and went to high school in Jean de la Mennais College an institution that is French-speaking located situated in La Prairie, Quebec. When he was thirteen, he took first place in the piano competition within his age class for the Canadian Music Competition.

They announced Pine would be available for purchase in August 2014. Pine device would begin production in the month of August. The device received mixed feedback from the media, mostly applauding its numerous features, but the majority of them criticized its size.

In November 2015, Tian was invited by the Mayor of Montreal Denis Coderre to attend the 2015 Montreal Trade Mission to China as one of the city’s representatives.

In March 2015, Tian announced the Neptune Suite through an Indiegogo campaign, raising close to $1.2 million in a month. Christopher Mims of the Wall Street Journal described the Suite as “a literal interpretation of the fact that a smartwatch, smartphone and tablet are all just different size windows on the same set of apps and services.” Daniel Cooper of Engadget commented on the ambitious nature of the product vision, writing, “Technology is all about big ideas, and this one from Simon Tian will probably need its own aircraft hangar”, whilst calling the device a “weirdo wrist computer”. Cliff Kuang of Wired called the Suite “a taste of what computing should be in 2025”, and the Verge wrote “the idea of putting all the brains and power of mobile computing into something attached to your body instead of in a pocket or bag is wildly attractive.”

Tian began Neptune in January of 2013 when he was just 17 and still enrolled at Marianopolis College, a pre-university college (CEGEP) located in Westmount, Quebec. Prior to building a prototype or incorporating a business, Tian uploaded some concept drawings of a smartwatch, called the Neptune Pine, on a website that he designed using Weebly released an announcement on PRWeb to announce the launch of the product, along with the delivery dates and then received more than 20,000 inquiries for the product in just only a couple of weeks.

Simon Tian Net Worth

Net Worth $5 Million
Source Of Income Businessperson
House Living in own house.

Simon Tian is one of the richest Businessperson from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Simon Tian 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Simon Tian (born February 24 1994) is an Canadian businessman inventor, entrepreneur, and investor. Tian is the co-founder and the chief of executive officers (CEO) of Neptune as well as co-founder as well as the CEO at Fonus along with co-founders of Globle. He was born and raised in Montreal, Canada, Tian left pre-university school at 17 to launch Neptune and, as of 2017, the company has raised $7 million of private equity, as well as an amount of more than $2 million in crowdfunding alone. Tian was an 2015 Thiel Fellow and was presented with $100,000 from PayPal founder and Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel through the Thiel Foundation and was also named among the most influential thirty Quebecers less than thirty by Les Affaires in 2014.

Tian was then kicked out of school and went across China for a meeting with contracted manufacturing companies to get the device created. On November 13, 2013, the inventor started a campaign for crowdfunding in support of Pine Pine in the Kickstarter. In just 27 minutes, his campaign had surpassed the goal of funding $100,000, and eventually was able to raise more than $800,000 within 30 days.

Tian raised US$1.15 million dollars on Indiegogo for the Neptune Suite in 2015, initially estimating a ship date of April 2016. However, as of December 2019, Tian had yet to ship the product to backers, leading ZDNet to claim the company had “jilted” backers.

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On January 21, 2020, Tian tweeted media outlets National Post, MobileSyrup, and iPhoneinCanada, and stated, “If you guys keep painting us [Fonus] in bad light, especially after we’ve shown proof of our service working, I will bring all of you to court. All three (3) of you. One (1) more negative article and that’s it. I’m calling it.” This happened after journalists James McLeod (National Post) and Patrick O’Rourke (MobileSyrup) started arguing with Tian on Twitter over the legitimacy of Fonus.

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Simon Ranked on the list of most popular Businessperson. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Simon Tian celebrates birthday on February 24 of every year.

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