Today’s Entrepreneur: Allen Tsai

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EECS alumnus Allen Tsai (B.S. ’00), the founder of startup Pani,  is profiled in the “Today’s Entrepreneur” column for startup and investor network, Vator.   Pani is a smart-home company that builds products to help consumers and utilities measure, monitor, and recycle water.  It recently raised $1 million in seed  funding which it will use to “acquire talent and drive product development.”   Prior to Pani, Tsai co-founded Azul Mobile and Ekata Systems.  One of the top lessons he learned as an entreprenur is “It is all about the people. Hire people who are smarter than you and empower them to do their best work. If you are the smartest person in the room, there’s a problem.”