Bill Atkinson Interviews Leo Liu, Co-Founder & CFO at Six P.I.D.

Leo Liu is an entrepreneur, real estate investor, and angel investor based in San Francisco Bay Area, CA.

He is also the co-founder and CFO of Six P.I.D., a luxury home builder that he launched in 2015. Six P.I.D. focuses on building luxury homes for residents in the Silicon Valley area.

In 2011, Liu founded Lian Tong LLC, a residential and commercial property management company. He also founded Bao Qin in 2014, a real estate investment firm in the San Francisco Bay area. Liu holds a California real estate agent license and a General Contractor license.

As an angel investor, Liu focuses on MedTech, pharmaceutical, and TMT sector.

He graduated from the University of the Pacific in 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Finance. Liu is currently working on his MBA at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School in Baltimore, MD, and is the president of the Student Marketing Association in the school community.

Interview questions

Q1: Tell us about coming to the U.S. Where did you live? How did you survive?

Q2: At 21 you started your own business, Six P.I.D., a luxury homebuilding business. How has the business performed since its launch in 2015?

Q3: What were the biggest challenges you faced with the business?

Q4: What have you learned from running the business?

Q5: When did you become an angel investor and why?

Q6: Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

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Bill Atkinson launched Atkinson Strategic Communications in January 2020 after 15 years in the public relations business and 21 years as a newspaper reporter. Clients include, Coca-Cola Consolidated, the largest bottler of Coca-Cola products in the country, the American Beverage Association, Howard Bank, Ambu, a Danish medical device maker with its U.S. headquarters in Columbia, Md., and Think Systems, a Baltimore-based management consulting firm.

Prior to starting his own firm, Atkinson was a partner in 212 Communications, which he joined in June 2015, and focused on strategic and crisis communications, media relations and grassroots strategies. Before that he was a senior vice president at global public relations agency Weber Shandwick. At Weber’s Baltimore office Atkinson specialized in strategic and crisis communications as well as reputation management. Clients included Constellation Energy, Honeywell, General Motors, Bank of America, Promontory Financial Group and 1st Mariner Bank.