Courtesy fo Austen Chu
- Austen Chu, 26, is the cofounder of Wristcheck, a platform for buying and selling pre-owned watches.
- He launched the company in 2020 and opened a brick-and-mortar store in a mall in Hong Kong in 2021.
- In November 2022, Chu raised $8 million in a pre-seed round led by Gobi Partners.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Austen Chu, the 26-year-old cofounder of Wristcheck. It has been edited for length and clarity.
I've been addicted to watches since I was a kid growing up in Shanghai. My grandparents were math professors, so I was taught numbers before letters.