Marc van der Chijs, CEO of Spil Games Asia and Co-Founder of Tudou.com

Marc van der Chijs is the CEO of Spil Games Asia and Co-Founder of Tudou. In this interview, he shares his insights on running startups in China. Marc will be among the key tech influencers the China 2.0 Tour group will be meeting while in Shanghai in November.

Marc van der Chijs is a successful Dutch entrepreneur based in Shanghai with a decade of experience doing business in China. He is the CEO of Spil Games Asia and co-founder of Tudou.com, the largest video sharing site in China. Marc is also an angel investor in Chinese start-ups.

About Spil Games Asia

SPIL GAMES is the world’s ultimate online game destination. We have been distributing online games through more than 45 gaming portals worldwide. All of the game portals are fully localized in each country including game content, language and domain.

About Tudou

Tudou.com (Chinese: 土豆网) is the largest video sharing platform in China, where users can upload, view and share video clips. Tudou went live on April 15, 2005 and has grown into one of the world’s largest content delivery networks, serving over 100 million videos each day with more than 40,000 new videos published daily, including amateur content such as videoblogging and user-generated videos, and professional content such as movie clips, TV clips and music videos from our content providers.

Tudou was founded by our CEO Gary Wang with co-founder Marc van der Chijs. The name Tudou is Chinese pinyin (romanized Chinese) for Potato. Tudou’s goal is to move couch potatoes from the TV screen to computer screens, a process very much under way in China. Tudou has raised several rounds of funding, the latest being $57 million in early 2008 for a total of $85 million over four rounds of funding. Investors include IDG China, Granite Global Ventures, JAFCO, General Catalyst Partners and Capital Today.