Profile: Ken Wang

Hometown: Shandong, China
Education: MA GBM ing
Interests: Travel and making friends
I want to running a trading company connected friends all over the world in a way of honest and pleased for business transaction as well as personal relationship. mix business with personal...

Profile: Marco Chan

Hometown: Hong Kong
Education: BBA(Hons) in Financial Services, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Interests: Snooker, Swimming, Hiking
If you could do anything for a future career, what would it be?: Become a successful banker.

Profile: Boris Wong

Hometown: Hong Kong
Education: Not even an illiteracy
Interests: Studying, Saving Single Girls (or not)
If you could do anything for a future career, what would it be?: Find a rich widow and marry her.

Profile: Dan Couture

Hometown: Comox, British Columbia, Canada (childhood home)
Education: BA Philosophy and History, University of Victoria
Interests: Playing drums and guitar, ice hockey, photography, traveling, philosophy, debating, science
If you could do anything for a future career, what would it be?: Astronaut, test pilot, aeronautical engineer

CakeS: an autobiography

Group:

Wong, Chun Cheung Boris (53804175)
Chan, Ka Ming Marco (53769642)
Couture, Dan (53911128)
Wang, Yonghua (53761017)


Innovation: the story behind the name 'CakeS'

There was a Friday in 2015 before which CakeS was a nameless bunch of individual schoolyard bullies who had yet to all formally meet. Due to circumstances far too complicated to detail here, Marco, Boris, Ken, and Dan met in AC2 at CityU. On that Friday when the worlds of the four hotheads collided, everything changed for them. Now, instead of rolling young students for their dinner money and Octopus cards they found it in themselves to change. The collective realization that they were all potential billionaires –of course, everyone who is not a billionaire is a potential billionaire– led them to stop taking the easy route in life and to start innovating.

First, they needed a name. As they were brainstorming creative and innovative ideas– names such as Sir-Mix-a-Lot (taken) and Alpha Kenny Wun (an unintelligible pun)– one of the members said "man, this group is going to kick ass." This last part was misunderstood by the group's Trello curator as "cake 's'" (stylized as CakeS). While this name does not immediately ring with innovation, it turned out to be exactly what they were looking for. It was created through collaboration and brainstorming, it was surprising, it was original, and most importantly, it worked. What is innovation if not that?

With that, CakeS was born.

Logo: a troll for the ages

CakeS's family crest is also its logo. It is the internationally recognized face of an internet troll. One may wonder, how does a troll represent innovation? But one must first ask oneself, what does a troll do? A troll serves two purposes. Firstly, the troll causes unnecessary heartache as it (notice the politically correct, gender neutral pronoun) torments unsuspecting and undeserving victims. But this torment serves another purpose, namely, inspiring critical thought.While a troll may call your completely innocent and benign ideas 'stupid' and it may constantly harass your online persona, it will also force you to reflect on your ideas and defend them.

Consider the following hypothetical example: There's a twenty-something student who was posting countless photos of his pet iguana online on social networks and other public forums. A troll came along and said "your iguana is ugly. Lawlz." While that may sound harsh and be an unsolicited attack on one's precious iguana, that twenty-something student thought to himself "should I really be posting so many photos of my iguana? Or should I try to invent something to change the world?" That twenty-something student immediately stopped posting his photos and then went on to invent a method to safely harness the power of dark energy.

Trolls -> game-changing innovation.

Reader, if you've made it this far, we only want to share one message: You too are (probably) a potential billionaire. It just takes one good innovation. Go get em', tiger!