Victor Tsao

Victor Tsao
Native name	曹英偉
Born	Ts'ao Ying-wei (Cao Yingwei) 1951 (age 65–66) Taiwan
Residence	California, US
Alma mater	Tamkang University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Pepperdine University
Occupation	Business executive, hardware engineer
Known for	co-founding Linksys
Spouse(s)	Janie Tsao
Children	2 sons

Victor Tsao (born 1951), or Ts'ao Ying-wei (Chinese: 曹英偉; pinyin: Cáo Yīngwěi), is a Taiwanese-born American entrepreneur and hardware engineer. Tsao and his wife Janie co-founded Linksys, a consumer home networking pioneer, and sold the company to Cisco Systems for $500 million in 2003.

Born Ts'ao Ying-wei, Tsao received his bachelor's degree in computer science at Tamkang University in Tamsui, Taiwan. At the university, he met his future wife and business partner, Wu Jian (later known as Janie Tsao), an English literature major.

Janie Tsao moved to the United States in 1975, and a year later, Victor went to Chicago to attend graduate school at Illinois Institute of Technology, where he obtained his master's degree in computer science in 1980. The couple married and moved to California after graduate school. He worked in various computer-related jobs at Montgomery Ward, Kraft Foods, TRW and Taco Bell, and earned an MBA degree from Pepperdine University.

In 1988, the Tsaos had an idea for a product that would allow multiple computers to share a printer. They started DEW International, later renamed Linksys, and financed the company with their own savings. It was founded in the garage of the Tsaos' Irvine, California home. Janie quit her job to run the company full-time. It was a gamble for the couple, who had two toddler sons aged 2 and 4 at the time. The company's product was a moderate success and by 1991, it was generating enough profit to allow Victor to also quit his job at Taco Bell and work on the company full-time.

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