Allen Lau is a Hong Kong-born Canadian entrepreneur who is the co-founder and former CEO of Wattpad.
[1][2][3] Lau was born in Hong Kong, and at age 19, he immigrated to Canada where he attended St. Robert Catholic High School and the University of Toronto.
[5][6] After graduating, Lau got a job as a software developer at IBM, but did not like working at such a big company.
A few years later, he joined Brightspark, a Toronto-based venture capital incubator founded by the same entrepreneurs who started Delrina.
It was at Brightspark that Lau started his first company, Tira Wireless, which published games for mobile phones.