In 2002 he and six buddies took part in the TIC100 Technology Innovation Competition organized by Advantech Foundation. Their entry--a network firewall at the cutting edge of global technology that offered protection at all seven layers of the network as opposed to the usual three-layer protection--took grand prize honors.
2002 年，他決定和 6 個朋友報名研華科技主辦的 TIC100 創業競賽，測試他們的成果──技術與國際同步、具有 7 層防護（一般只有 3 層）的「網路防火牆」，一舉拿下比賽首獎。