As CEO of Hooch, Lin and his co-founders pioneered the Hooch App, the first membership cocktail app where members pay $9.99 a month and receive One Drink Every Day. Winner of Anheuser-Busch/InBev's SxSW Startup competition and Top 25 winner in Richard Branson's Extreme Tech Challenge, Hooch is available at hundreds of bars and restaurants in NY, LA, Austin, Dallas, Miami, and soon to be in HongKong, SF and more.

Lin graduated with honors from Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. He was awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year award, followed by a tenure as the youngest adjunct professor at CMU, developing its 1st set of credited courses on Web Publishing.