Robert Mao, Founder, and CEO of ArcBlock, Inc., is a serial entrepreneur and innovator. Robert founded Lodesoft Corp and UUZone Interactive Inc. in China: the former was the leading Voice Over IP solution at the time, and the latter one of the first social networking services in China. Working abroad, he joined Microsoft Europe’s Global Product Development unit and Microsoft Research’s Future Social Experiences (FUSE) labs, a research center focusing on social computing and machine learning. In 2017, Robert founded ArcBlock, a platform for building and deploying decentralized blockchain applications. to lay the foundation for blockchain 3.0 era.