the official Quake II strategy guide with Jonathan Mendoza and Kenn Spear Hwang. GX Media spun off Lithium Technologies, a leading Social CRM platform provider that counts AT&T, PlayStation, Verizon, Comcast and Best Buy as some of its customers. The company has raised over $40 million from Benchmark Capital, Emergence Capital, Shasta Ventures, DAG Ventures and Tenaya Capital. Fong went on to co-found Xfire, an Instant messaging client designed for online gaming, that was acquired by Viacom in April 2006 for 102 million. In 2007, Fong founded Raptr, a social network and related software client for gamers. The company has raised over $12 million in financing from Accel Partners. Fong serves as an adviser for WeGame.com Inc and also served in the same capacity to the now-defunct Booyah, Inc. Playing style In games, Fong is known for his reflexes, intuition and tactics. People coined the term "Thresh ESP" to describe his unnatural knack for knowing exactly what his opponents were doing. In 1 on 1 deathmatch, he made it a priority to understand the level and "control" vital items using timed runs to repeatedly hoard them from opponents, such as the rocket launcher and armor in Quake. Fong has been credited with popularizing the WASD key configuration now commonly used in PC gaming. Personal life Fong was born in Hong Kong on March 11, 1977. He also lived in Beijing for a while. His parents, David and Lena Fong, were educated in America and are US citizens. He and his family immigrated to the United States when he was 11 years old, and he grew up in Los Altos, California. His interests include playing roller hockey. Fong has two younger brothers, Lyle and Bryant. Lyle helped him co-found GX Media. Thresh attended De Anza College in Cupertino, California for a year in 1996–1997 before dropping out to focus on gaming. He currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. See also DWANGO References Additional sources (about DeathRow) "Thresh: the legend of Quake". Cyberfight.org "King of the Gamers" Washington Post. "Valley Boys". Business Week cover story. External links Raptr FiringSquad Xfire Thresh's Quake Bible Thresh vs Entropy at the final of Red Annihilation 1997 (Quake Demo file) Youtube of the above demo with commentary Living people American chief executives in the media industry American computer businesspeople American esports players American mass media company founders American people of Chinese descent American people