Steven Lam joined Berkeley Frontier Fund as a Venture Partner after co-founding and leading GoGoVan/GOGOX, the Hong Kong startup that grew into the city's first unicorn and went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2022; before that, he built BoxAd, an advertising company that placed ads on lunch boxes in Hong Kong. His path there was unusually scrappy: after failing Hong Kong's public exam, he moved to the U.S. with little money, worked as a restaurant deliveryman, went through community college, and eventually reached UC Berkeley Haas, paying his way through small ventures like refurbishing bicycles, reselling iPhones on eBay, and selling hot dogs in a Berkeley parking lot.