In this webinar, Steven Chan, the Founder of GoodNotes, will share his startup story and the cloud journey on AWS. GoodNotes strongly believes in building a product-driven business is the key to succeed as a startup company. They have built up different mechanisms to deeply understand their customers and launch new features regularly. They have chosen AWS as their primary cloud provider and adopted numbers of AWS services to accelerate their new product developments and global expansion. Since its adoption on AWS, the company has experienced rapid growth, with more than 190K comments in App Store and over 190 million views of GoodNotes content on TikTok as of today.
Come join us and gain first-hand readily-applicable tips and insights in forming and developing a startup team from scratch.
Idea Conceptualization and Realization
Form and Develop the Best Team
Go-to-Market Strategy
Growth Hacking
Secure Landing Zone
Architecture Cost Optimization
Gameday
AI/ML
EMR
Developing Multi-region Serverless Applications
Streaming Data
CloudFormation Infrastructure as Code
EKS
EKS(2)
DynamoDB
Speaker Bio
Steven Chan, Founder, GoodNotes
Steven founded GoodNotes while in his last year of a maths undergraduate programme more than ten years ago to build a better note-taking app for the iPad. It was a one-man company for five years before the Apple Pencil came out. Fast forward to ten years later, GoodNotes now has millions of active users and the team has grown to more than forty people across the globe with offices in Hong Kong and London.
Eric Zhiqi Pan, Machine Learning Software Engineer, GoodNotes
Eric is a machine learning software engineer and a full-stack web developer, focusing on handwriting recognition and big data processing. He has been involved in both the development and architectural design of various projects at GoodNotes.
Sze Lok Chan, Manager, Startup Business Development, Hong Kong & Taiwan, AWS
Sze Lok has been working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for over 4 years in the Startup Business Development team. He assists startup founders in Hong Kong and Taiwan to leverage AWS to realize their business goals. His passion in digital transformation and innovation has helped more than 100 startups successfully build the products. This makes him one of the recognized startup ecosystem builders in Hong Kong. He is also one of the first few employees at AWS Greater China Region that certified to share the Amazon Culture of Innovation to external parties. Prior to AWS, Sze Lok has worked in various business development roles at tech companies and his own family business.
About GoodNotes
GoodNotes is a popular note-taking app for digital handwritten notes on iPhone, iPad and Mac. It is also known as one of the most successful bootstrapped startup in Hong Kong. They have been a mega-hit in Hong Kong since its launch and has expanded quickly to other countries globally at the early stage of the business. GoodNotes is consistently one of the top-ranking iPad apps worldwide, a household name within student communities, and is considered a must-have app on iPad. Steven and his team aim to realize the potential of digital note-taking for every work situation.