Tech Sabado and Newsbytes.PH, startup “rockstar” Earl Valencia narrated his journey from being a Silicon Valley-based tech executive to a co-founder of local startup incubators and now back in the US as one of the man behind a lending startup focused on the Philippines. A native of Davao, Valencia took his primary and secondary education in the Philippines. He was already on this 3rd year in the UP College of Engineering in Diliman when he migrated with his family to the US. There, he obtained his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from Boston University, finishing summa cum laude. He then acquired a Masters in Systems Engineering degree from Cornell University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.