Sydney Liu
Co-founder And CEO at MascotBranding.com
Walnut Creek, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSydney Liu is a serial founder and CEO with 12 years of experience building audience-first media and creative tech companies from the Bay Area. He co-founded ViralAnimators and Characterhub, driving over 10 million views and orchestrating high-impact art activations with brands like Sonic, Transformers, and Spongebob by using short, punchy animations and novel storytelling formats. Earlier ventures such as Commaful and TalentTrail demonstrate his knack for creating new content formats and recruitment algorithms that scale communities and product-market fit. A USC-trained computer scientist with a background in publishing, mobile media, and viral growth, he blends product, creative direction, and growth marketing to create visual “unfair advantages.” Outside work he’s an avid chess and pickleball player and publishes a personal instruction manual for collaboration style, signaling a founder who values clear communication as much as creative risk-taking.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Business Administration, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Business Administration at University of Southern CaliforniaCampolindo High SchoolNot for Credit, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Not for Credit, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at NovoEd Free Online Stanford CoursesNot For Credit, Not For Credit at Coursera Free Online College Courses
Chinese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (19)
tailwindcss8
postgresql7
zod7
typescript7
prisma7
nextjs7
infrastructure6
turborepo6
open-source6
trpc5
next-auth4
scheduling4
t3-stack3
music2
android-application2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sydneyliu/CodeDaySpring
May 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:10 commits in 1 day
chineseshakephonepartsmother
sydneyliu/FB2014
Apr 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:6 commits in 1 day
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