William Lai

About

William Lai is the co-founder and president of [Lolligift](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/lolligift), which he founded in 2008 with [Adam Sheppard](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/adam-sheppard) after leaving [Microsoft](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/microsoft). William is a 20 year software industry veteran. In the last 13 years he has been focused on intrapreneuring in [MSN](http://www.crunchbase.com/product/msn), launching two products from concept formulation. The team he helped found, MSN Messenger v1.0 was nominated for the “Legendary Development Teams of Microsoft” award. His engineering analysis and architecture design for the Messenger server cloud has been time-tested and scale-proven from day one, and continues to form the basis 8 years later as the world’s largest instant messaging platform. Post Messenger, he proposed a product extension for Messenger, Microsoft Alerts, and was funded by executives as a separate team to capitalize on the asset b

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Seattle, US