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    He lost money as a young CEO. Then he founded TV giant Vizio

    by Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times Jul 08, 2019 4 minutes

    William Wang, 55, is founder and chief executive of Vizio, one of the nation's bestselling TV brands, which is tackling new ways of streaming television. Irvine, Calif.-based Vizio has more than 400 employees and offices across the country.

    Starting from scratch

    Wang has always liked to build from the ground up - both in the figurative sense that he built his company from scratch, and literally; when he was younger, he wanted to be an architect. In college, Wang realized that engineering was a more lucrative industry, and so he took a different path. But he's never totally lost the architecture bug. In his spare time, he builds houses.

    Wang bought an old house in Newport Beach, knocked

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