Lines of Flight owner Wang Yung worked at Tanshui's famed Wenli Bookstore when he was young. He has also worked in videotape manufacturing and was once an executive at a pharmaceutical factory, only entering the book business in his 50s.
秋水堂的老闆王永，年輕時曾在著名的淡水文理書店工作，此後轉戰錄影帶的加工生產，也曾在藥廠擔任高階主管，年過 50 才重新投入書店經營。