Asian Tech Leaders
49 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsLearn from Asian CEOs, entrepreneurs and thinkers in technology on what led to their success and how you can apply their lessons to your life. Join host Justin Pang as he uncovers inspiring stories from Asian leaders in technology and unpacks how their Asian culture and identity impacted their life choices. Learn more at: www.asiantechleaders.com
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Jason Fan - CEO and Co-Founder of Dealwise
May 15, 2024 15:58 - 53 minutes - 49.6 MBJason Fan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Dealwise, a platform that helps founders of SAAS startups get acquired through its innovative marketplace. Dealwise came out of stealth mode in 2023 and gives founders access to vetted buyers and provides them with flexible liquidity options while buyers get access to proprietary deal flow. Prior to starting Dealwise, Jason developed and co-founded LLM devtool Psychic during his time at YCombinator. Jason also spent over five years as a Product Manag...
Jae Lee - Founder and CEO of Twelve Labs
February 28, 2024 15:28 - 44 minutes - 41.5 MBJae Lee is the Founder and CEO of Twelve Labs, a video understanding platform that uses AI to help developers and companies search and understand videos quickly. Using its state-of-the-art multimodal foundation model for videos that can accurately and instantly search exact moments within petabytes of video archives, generate coherent text summaries of videos, perform prompt-based video generation, and many more. Jae and his co-founders started the company in 2021 and has secured funding fro...
Vivian Sun - Head of Automated Driving at Amazon
December 19, 2023 18:43 - 48 minutes - 44.9 MBVivian Sun is the Head of Automated Driving at Amazon and an accomplished autonomous vehicle and AI expert. Vivian previously served as the Chief Commercial Officers at Waabi and the VP of Business Development at TuSimple, two leaders in autonomous trucking. In this episode, Vivian shares more about the current state of the AV industry, the potential of generative AI, and how her upbringing shaped her career path. Chapters: (00:01) Autonomous Vehicles (14:08) Hardware and Software Integra...
Albert Tai - CEO and Founder of Hypercare
December 04, 2023 17:04 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBAlbert Tai is the Founder and CEO of Hypercare, a VC-backed healthcare technology company that helps connect the right healthcare providers at the righttime to improve patient outcomes in hospitals and community settings. Albert started Hypercare in 2016 when he realized how challenging it was to communicate efficiently in the healthcare space. He hasn’t looked back since then and Hypercare has launched in over 100 organizations across North America from large hospital systems to small commu...
Francois Le Nguyen - CEO and Co-Founder of Staging Labs
November 03, 2023 16:42 - 57 minutes - 53 MBFrancois (Frankie) Le Nguyen is the CEO and Co-Founder of Staging Labs, a startup that secures crypto and NFT assets by intercepting dangerous transactions in real-time. Frankie previously built and launched startup incubator Entrepreneur First in Canada and served as GM in both its Toronto and Singapore location where he helped build 50+ venture-backed startups valued at over $400M. Frankie started his career in product management at software companies LightSpeed and Holmusk, and is an ange...
Jaclyn Ling - Co-Founder of Hatchways
October 03, 2023 18:49 - 41 minutes - 38.7 MBJaclyn Ling is the Co-Founder of Hatchways, a Y-Combinator-backed startup that is modernizing the technical interview process for start-ups and developers looking for their next great job. Prior to starting Hatchways, Jaclyn was the co-founder of a fashion bot company Blynk which was acquired by Kik Interactive in 2016. Jaclyn grew up in Vancouver, Canada, studied finance at McGill University, and had her first taste of success as a YouTube fashion influencer that had thousands of followers....
Ivan Zhang - Co-Founder and CTO of Cohere
July 21, 2023 14:06 - 57 minutes - 53 MBIvan Zhang is the co-founder and CTO of Cohere, a leading GenAI startup that provides natural language processing models to help developers and companies build new products and unlock business value with language AI. Cohere’s models power interactive chat features, generate text for product descriptions, blog posts, and articles, and capture the meaning of text for search, content moderation, and intent recognition. Cohere recently closed a $270M series C round and is valued at over $2B. P...
Thomas Park - Partner at BDC Deep Tech Fund and Co-founder of Asian Canadian Ventures Collective
July 06, 2023 15:15 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MBThomas Park is a leader in global venture capital and is a Partner at the BDC Deep Tech Fund and the Co-founder of Asian Canadian Ventures Collective. Tom has been at the BDC since 2017 and currently leads a $200M venture capital fund that invests in Canadian startups developing cutting edge technology including quantum computers. Previously, Tom served 5 years at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and McKinsey & Co., where he had the opportunity to oversee numerous special projects acros...
Shruthi Rao - Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer at Vendia
January 30, 2023 15:45 - 55 minutes - 51.5 MBShruthi Rao is the Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer of Vendia, a multi-cloud, distributed data platform. Previously, Shruthi launched Amazon’s managed blockchain business and led business development for various AWS’ services. Shruthi also held a variety of leadership roles in Corporate Development at Bank of America, AT&T, DirectTV and start-up, Feedzai. Shruthi began her career at McKinsey and holds an MBA and Computer Science Degree. In this episode, you will learn about: How Shrut...
Linda Ho - Chief People Officer at Seismic
December 07, 2022 19:31 - 48 minutes - 45.1 MBLinda Ho is the Chief People Officer at Seismic, an AI-powered sales enablement platform that improves team productivity, collaboration and knowledge sharing. As the Chief People Officer, Linda leads the company’s initiatives around culture, org development, talent acquisition, total rewards and internal communications. Prior to joining Seismic, Linda spent 14 years in various HR leadership roles at Autodesk Inc, most recently as a Vice President, and focused on creating a diverse, equitable...
Dr. Bodi Zhang - Chief Strategy Officer of Thorne HealthTech
November 11, 2022 15:41 - 49 minutes - 46.2 MBDr. Bodi Zhang is Chief Strategy Officer at Thorne HealthTech (Nasdaq: THRN), a leading healthcare company that utilizes innovative testing and data to deliver personalized solutions for consumers, health professionals, and corporations. Previously, Bodi served as the Chief Science Officer for Onegevity Health, and was a leader at global healthcare consultancy Deallus Group. As a scientist, Bodi’s research focused on autoimmune diseases and published top-tier research publications. Dr. Zhan...
Eden Full Goh - CEO and Founder of Mobot
October 31, 2022 01:53 - 52 minutes - 49 MBEden Full Goh is the CEO and Founder of Mobot, a venture-backed company that automates testing of mobile apps using robotics technology. Previously, Eden built products that spanned the energy, healthcare and government sectors at Palantir Technologies and Butterfly Network. Eden also founded and scaled SunSaluter, a global non-profit that has deployed an open-source solar panel tracker design in 19 countries, impacting 17,000+ people. Eden was part of the inaugural cohort of the prestigious...
Percy Hung - CEO and Co-Founder of Choco Up
September 12, 2022 15:20 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBPercy Hung is the co-founder and CEO of Choco Up, one of the largest revenue-based financing and growth platforms in Asia that provides funding to fast growing start-ups. Choco Up utilizes data analytics and third party integrations to automate funding decisions and provides companies with growth capital in as little as 48 hours. Prior to starting Choco Up, Percy founded two other ventures and also held various engineering and venture capital roles in the APAC region. Percy was born in Hong ...
Amelia Lin - CEO and Co-Founder of Honeycomb
February 07, 2022 15:48 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBAmelia Lin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Honeycomb, a private social app for families. Honeycomb offers families a way to curate and share their favorite moments and memories in a private and secure way. Prior to starting Honeycomb, Amelia was previously a product leader at Udacity and Optimizely. Amelia obtained her MBA degree from the Harvard Business School and studied physics during undergrad at Harvard. In this episode, you’ll learn about: How Amelia made the decision to leap into the ...
Judy Lai-Norling - COO at Carbon Mapper
January 09, 2022 19:12 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBJudy Lai-Norling is the COO at Carbon Mapper - an organization developing a new way to locate, quantify and track carbon emissions from air and space. Prior to joining Carbon Mapper, Judy spent 14 years at NASA’s Jet Propulsion lab in both business and engineering roles. Judy holds Master’s Degrees in Math and Economics from the University of Texas and University of Wisconsin respectively. In this episode: You will learn more about Judy’s early childhood migrating from Taiwan to the US and...
Vivian Shen - CEO and Co-Founder of Juni Learning
December 10, 2021 03:58 - 47 minutes - 44 MBVivian Shen is the CEO and Co-Founder of Juni Learning - an education platform that helps connect kids to expert mentors to help empower them and learn topics like Coding, Storytelling, and Investing. Prior to starting Juni Learning, Vivian had a variety of experience including being a software engineer at Google, consultant at McKinsey & Company, and product leader at a start-up called Operator. Vivian has been featured in Forbes’ 30 Under 30, Fast Company, TechCrunch, and Fortune. Vivian e...
Rob Chang - CEO and Co-Founder of Gryphon Digital Mining
November 03, 2021 15:58 - 45 minutes - 42.2 MBRob Chang is the CEO and Co-Founder of Gryphon Digital Mining, a company focused on sustainable Bitcoin mining. Rob has deep experience in the cryptocurrency space including previously being the CFO at Riot Blockchain where he helped turn around the company during the midst of the last Bitcoin bear market. Prior to working in crypto, Rob had a successful career in capital markets where he led equity research focused on the precious metals and mining industry. Rob obtained both his MBA and un...
Dr. Raj Das Gupta - COO at Electrovaya
October 18, 2021 14:52 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBDr. Raj Das Gupta is the COO at Electrovaya, a publicly traded (TSX:EFL) (OTCQB:EFLVF) company that designs, develops and manufactures proprietary Lithium-ion batteries. Raj has been with Electrovaya for over 10 years and has been involved with every aspect of the business from cell manufacturing, engineering activities and business development. Raj is currently responsible for Electrovaya’s overall Technology and Business Development functions. Raj attended Imperial College in London, Mass...
Faisal Abid - CTO and Co-Founder at Eirene Cremations
August 20, 2021 15:53 - 46 minutes - 43.1 MBFaisal Abid is a serial entrepreneur and currently the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder at Eirene Cremations, a direct-to-consumer service that helps families plan affordable and high-quality cremation services. Faisal is also currently a Google Developer Expert, CTO at Bitstrapped.com and Instructor at Brainstation. Prior to founding Eirene Cremations, Faisal was the CTO at Zoom.ai where he led engineering including overseeing its machine learning infrastructure. Faisal has also held...
Lakhveer Singh Jajj and Traci Cheng - Co-Founders at Moselle
July 19, 2021 18:27 - 41 minutes - 38.6 MBLakhveer Singh Jajj and Traci Cheng are the Co-Founders of Moselle, a tech platform that helps small-medium businesses to create stable, sustainable, and scalable supply chains. Lakhveer and Traci launched Moselle just a couple months before the pandemic hit in 2020 and quickly adapted to help SMBs adapt to the surge in e-commerce. In this episode, you will learn more about: How being raised by immigrant parents shaped their world view and life decisions How Lakhveer and Traci met and de...
Lynne Takagaki - Co-Founder at Welcome Aboard
June 09, 2021 19:03 - 24 minutes - 22.9 MBLynne Takagaki is the Co-Founder of Welcome Aboard, a start-up that finds the perfect fit between job seekers and companies with strongly aligned missions and cultures. In addition to leading Welcome Aboard with her two co-founders, Lynne is also a business development leader at AnyRoad, an enterprise relationship management platform. She also spent time as a Sales Manager at PepsiCo and a Sales Lead at ContractRoom. In this episode, you will learn about: How Lynne decided to start Welcome...
Danni Pi - COO at Rowan
May 26, 2021 23:25 - 41 minutes - 38.8 MBDanni Pi is the COO at Rowan, a venture-backed health and wellness company re-imagining ear piercing. Prior to joining Rowan, Danni led operations at Uber where she helped grow ridership and reliability of the ride-sharing service in New York and also helped launched UberEATS in several cities. Danni starter her career as a consultant at Oliver Wyman and obtained her MBA from the Harvard Business School and undergraduate degree in economics from Columbia University. In this episode you will...
Kane Ma - Co-Founder and CTO at Kamo Digital Solutions
May 10, 2021 17:30 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBKane Ma is the Co-founder and CTO, at Kamo Digital Solutions a full-service digital agency for start-ups. Prior to founding his company, Kane played junior varsity basketball at the storied University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill which was also former home to NBA legends Michael Jordan, Vince Carter and many others. After playing professional basketball in Asia for two years, Kane started Kamo Digital Solutions with his friend and former teammate Kanayo Obi-Rapu. Kane received Bachelor'...
Dr. Marcia Liu - Counseling Psychologist and Mental Health Coordinator at HCAP
March 23, 2021 19:37 - 43 minutes - 40.6 MBIn light of the recent rise in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes we dedicated this podcast to learning more about the importance of mental health within the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. I was delighted to spend time on the podcast with Marcia Liu, Ph.D. who is a Licensed Counseling Psychologist. Dr. Liu currently runs a private psychotherapy practice and leads a mental health program at Hunter College - the AANAPISI Project (HCAP) - specifically focused on Asian Americans and Pacifi...
Jeanne Lam - Chief Business Officer at Wattpad
February 08, 2021 01:59 - 34 minutes - 32.3 MBJeanne Lam is the Chief Business Officer at Wattpad, a global app and entertainment company that is used by 90 million people around the world and recently acquired by South Korean Internet giant Naver for $600M. Jeanne has over 15 years of experience in tech with a focus on high-growth consumer startups. Prior to Wattpad, Jeanne led growth and user acquisition at Shapeways, the world’s largest 3D printing service. She has also worked in ad tech at Yahoo!, led marketing at mobile payments c...
Andrew Chang - COO at Paxos
January 22, 2021 17:13 - 57 minutes - 53.1 MBAndrew Chang is the COO of Paxos, a fintech company that builds infrastructure on blockchain to facilitate the movement between physical and digital assets such as cryptocurrency. Before joining Paxos, Andrew had an array of experience including working in business development at Google, serving as COO of video technology company ConditionOne, and starting his career at Morgan Stanley. Andrew earned his MBA from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business where he was President...
Raphael Chow - CEO and Co-Founder at Wevat
December 31, 2020 22:04 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBRaphael Chow is the CEO and Co-Founder at Wevat, a platform that helps travelers get tax refunds on purchases made in the UK. To date, Wevat has helped travellers from 88 countries get tax refunds on purchases amounting to more than £16 million. In this episode, you will learn about how Raphael’s upbringing in Asia and Canada shaped his worldview, how he made the transition from studying biochemistry at Oxford to working as a consultant, and the lessons he has learned from building a start-...
Dr. Paul Bhatti - CEO and Founder at Sowingo
December 28, 2020 16:06 - 42 minutes - 39.6 MBDr. Paul Bhatti is CEO and Founder at Sowingo - a cloud-based eCommerce and inventory management solution for dentists. Founded in 2012, Sowingo's mission is to transform healthcare by offering dental and medical professionals with tools to more efficiently run their practices and improve patient outcomes. The company helps save dentists time and money through their robust marketplace that carries over 50,000 products from the best suppliers in the industry. In addition to running Sowingo...
Qiaojia Li - CEO and Co-founder at Rosecut
November 06, 2020 21:05 - 49 minutes - 46.1 MBQiaojia Li is the CEO and Co-Founder at Rosecut - a wealth management platform to help you access the knowledge and advice you need to plan for the future you want. Prior to starting Rosecut, Qiaojia was a private wealth manager at Credit Suisse and Coutts in London. She started her career in Mergers & Acquisitions in Asia and earned her MBA at the London Business School (where we were classmates!). In this episode, you will learn about how Qiaojia's mother's life as an entrepreneur inspire...
Lyn Chen - Co-founder and COO at LayerCI
October 17, 2020 14:47 - 46 minutes - 43.1 MBLyn Chen is the Co-founder and COO at LayerCI: a Y Combinator backed platform that helps developers review and publish code faster and better. Prior to co-founding LayerCI, Lyn was the co-founder and CEO of a food tech company, Candy Cutlery. In the episode, I chat with Lyn about her passion for power lifting, what her experience as an entrepreneur taught her about mental health, and why finding a co-founder is like dating. Happy listening and thank you, Lyn, for joining! Links: https://la...
Josh Li - Chief Business Officer at Apifiny
July 17, 2020 16:07 - 43 minutes - 40.5 MBJosh Li is the Chief Business Officer at Apifiny, a fintech company and digital asset marketplace utilizing blockchain technology. Prior to this, Josh was a business executive at Google for 12 years - which included time at Google X as its Chief Innovation Officer in Asia and founding the Asian Google Network - one of the largest employee resource groups at Google with presence in 20 countries in the world. Josh also was the Founder and CEO of a start-up, Leisureplanner, and started his caree...
Professor Ellen Wu - Historian, Scholar and Author of "The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority"
June 08, 2020 14:08 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBProfessor Ellen Wu is the Associate Professor in the Department of History at Indiana University Bloomington and Director of the Asian American Studies Program. She is the author of the book “The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority”. Her commentary has been featured by a number of outlets including the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and NPR. Professor Wu obtained a PhD in History from the University of Chicago, and an M.A. at UCLA. I really enjoyed th...
Jiaqi Pan - CEO and Founder of Landbot
April 25, 2020 11:24 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBJiaqi Pan is the CEO and Founder of Landbot - a no-code chatbot platform that empowers businesses to acquire, engage and monetize customers in messaging channels. Landbot has over 50,000 customers including Uber, L’Oreal and LG. Prior to founding Landbot in 2017, JIA-CHEE was the CEO and founder of Helloumi - a B2C messaging platform for businesses to engage with their customers. In this episode, I chat with Jiaqi about his journey from China to Spain when he was young, how Iron Man and Robe...
Buck Gee - Board Member at Ascend | Co-founder Asian American Executive Program at Stanford GSB
April 11, 2020 14:44 - 55 minutes - 51.7 MBBuck Gee is a pioneer in helping to improve Asian representation in business and technology. Buck retired in 2008 from Cisco Systems, where he was Vice President and General Manager of the Data Center Business Unit. He joined Cisco with its 2004 acquisition of Andiamo Systems where Mr. Gee was President and CEO. In 2010, he co-founded the Advanced Leadership Program for Asian American Executives, an executive education program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business; and he is also a ...
Dr. Joseph Choi - Co-Founder and COO of Hypercare
March 30, 2020 16:48 - 32 minutes - 30.3 MBDr. Joseph Choi is the Co-Founder and COO of Hypercare - a platform for clinicians to securely communicate and locate each other quickly and effectively. Dr. Choi is also an Emergency Physician in Toronto and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto's medical school. Dr. Choi earned his Master of Public Health at Harvard and earned his MD at the University of Toronto. In this episode, I chat with Dr. Choi about what he's seeing in the field regarding COVID-19, how technology is he...
Hanmin Yang - CEO and Founder of Alike
January 28, 2020 17:56 - 36 minutes - 33.9 MBHanmin Yang is the CEO and Founder of Alike - a dating app for the modern North American Asian that celebrates our identity, culture and story as told by us. On this episode of Asian Tech Leaders, I chat with Hanmin about his upbringing as a Korean immigrant to Canada, how his background in film helps him in creating a tech product, and the importance of mental health as an entrepreneur.
Mikael Cho - Co-Founder and CEO of Unsplash
December 22, 2019 14:42 - 45 minutes - 42.5 MBMikael Cho is the Co-Founder and CEO of Unsplash, a crowd-sourced photo service platform with over 300 million users and over 1 million free high-resolution photos. Founded in 2013 as a humble Tumblr blog, Unsplash has grown into an industry-leading visual community. It’s become a source of inspiration for everyone from award-winning writers like Deepak Chopra to industry-titans like Apple, and millions of creators worldwide. On this episode I chat with Mikael about growing up in a small to...
Meagan Pi - Vice-President at Google
December 06, 2019 20:04 - 48 minutes - 45.2 MBMeagan Pi is a Vice-President at Google and has over 20 years of experience working in Silicon Valley. She’s an advocate for women empowerment and is dedicated to reinventing a new set of corporate cultural norms to unleash the true potential in each one of us. Her desire is to create a cultural norm that accepts people of all kinds. On this episode, I chat with Meagan about her upbringing in China, the influence that her strict parents had on her career choices, and what she thinks needs to ...
Donna Litt | Co-founder and COO Kiite
November 14, 2019 15:53 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBDonna Litt is the Co-founder and COO at Kiite, an B2B AI platform that is an intelligent sales coach. Before Kiite, Litt co-founded TribeHR, which was acquired by NetSuite in 2013. On this episode, I chat with Donna about her experience growing up in a mixed race household, how her background in archeology led to a career in technology, and what drove her to writing and publishing her first novel in 2018 called 'Where the Sun Sets'. Links: Connect with Donna on LinkedIn: https://www.linke...
Donna Litt - Co-founder and COO Kiite
November 14, 2019 15:53 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBDonna Litt is the Co-founder and COO at Kiite, a B2B AI platform that serves as an intelligent sales coach. Before Kiite, Litt co-founded TribeHR, which was acquired by NetSuite in 2013. On this episode, I chat with Donna about her experience growing up in a mixed race household, how her background in archaeology led to a career in technology, and what drove her to writing and publishing her first novel in 2018 called 'Where the Sun Sets'. Links: Connect with Donna on LinkedIn: https://ww...
Paul Huynh - Entrepreneur in Residence | Social Entrepreneur | Ex-Googler
August 01, 2019 20:18 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBPaul Huynh was a Google executive for 11 years where he incubated, launched and led new sales and operations teams for products like YouTube, Google Display Network, DoubleClick Buy Side Platforms and DoubleClick Ad Exchange. He started his Google career in NYC working within the healthcare sector before moving to Australia in 2009 where he developed and drove business growth across Asia Pacific. Prior to Google, Paul worked in media and communications planning with brands like P&G, Diageo, a...
Rain Takahashi - CEO and Founder of JAUNTIN'
July 19, 2019 18:24 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBRain Takahashi is the CEO and Founder of JAUNTIN', an A.I.-backed on-demand insurance platform that makes obtaining insurance quick and easy. https://jauntin.com
Emma Yang - Founder of Timeless
June 21, 2019 19:00 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBEmma Yang is the fifteen-year-old Founder of Timeless, a mobile app that helps Alzheimer’s patients stay engaged and connected to loved ones. In September 2017, Timeless was selected as the winner of the MIT Solve Brain Health Challenge and designated as one of the 38 Solvers out of nearly 1,000 solutions from 103 countries. Most recently, Emma was named the Grand Prize Winner of the Women Startup Challenge hosted by Women Who Tech and Google. On this episode, I chat with Emma about challeng...
Jimmy Chen - CEO and Founder of Propel
June 14, 2019 19:43 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBJimmy Chen is the CEO and founder of Propel, a software company that aims to make America’s safety net more user friendly. Prior to Propel, Jimmy graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Symbolic Systems, and worked as a Product Manager at LinkedIn and Facebook. On this episode, I talk with Jimmy about his childhood as a Chinese immigrant in Kansas City, how he decided to start his own company, and advice on how to find your passion.
Sobhan Etemadi - CEO and Founder of Sobie Systems
June 06, 2019 16:20 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBSobhan Etemadi is the CEO and Founder of Sobie Systems, a Canadian-based startup that builds smart-product solutions using advanced sensor technologies for monitoring of residential HVAC systems. Sobie Systems’ current product, Everest, monitors the energy efficiency and performance of the HVAC system in real-time and prevents homeowners from exposure to deadly carbon monoxide leaks. Prior to starting Sobie Systems, Sobhan worked at aerospace leader Pratt & Whitney, and transportation manufa...
Xiao Wang - CEO of Boundless
May 16, 2019 19:55 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBXiao Wang is the co-founder and CEO of Boundless, helping families navigate the complex legal immigration system more confidently, rapidly, and affordably than ever before. Prior to Boundless, he held leadership roles at Amazon Go, Providence Equity, NYC Department of Education, and McKinsey. Xiao holds a BA/MS from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. On this episode, we hear from Xiao about his upbringing as a Chinese immigrant raised in the suburbs of Seattle, how...
Karen Hao - Artificial Intelligence Reporter at MIT Technology Review
April 12, 2019 20:21 - 45 minutes - 42.4 MBKaren Hao is the artificial intelligence reporter for MIT Technology Review. In particular she covers the ethics and social impact of the technology as well as its applications for social good. She also writes the AI newsletter, the Algorithm, which thoughtfully examines the field’s latest news and research. Prior to joining the publication, she was a reporter and data scientist at Quartz and an application engineer at the first startup to spin out of Google X. In this episode I talk to Karen...
Eva Wong - Co-founder and COO of Borrowell
April 03, 2019 14:58 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBEva Wong is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Borrowell, a Canadian fintech company that helps consumers make great decisions about credit. Eva's career has spanned both the private and not-for-profit sectors, including leadership roles at The OTF Group (a Monitor spin-off), Maple Leaf Foods, UNDP and Oliver Wyman (formerly Mercer Management Consulting). She has studied or worked in the US, Caribbean, Africa, Asia and Europe. She was named to the 2017 Women in FinTech Powerlist and ...
Tiffany Pham - CEO of Mogul
March 11, 2019 18:28 - 31 minutes - 43.4 MBTiffany Pham is CEO of Mogul, a global platform enabling women worldwide to reach their goals and realize their full potential. A coder, Tiffany developed the first version of Mogul, now reaching across 196 countries and 30,470 cities. She is the bestselling author of YOU ARE A MOGUL and GIRL MOGUL. On this episode I talk with Tiffany abut her upbringing as a Vietnamese-Chinese immigrant to America who could barely speak English, lessons she's learned from her dad, how to find your passion, a...