A man's father, a Chinese immigrant, built a software business serving Wall Street in the 1970s, then lost it all in the early 1990s. Watching the collapse at 13 taught him that money disappears but hard work and integrity don't. Those two things have driven everything since.
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Offline. You had mentioned your father was an immigrant from China and found his way over here and ultimately created a pretty successful life for himself. Talk about that a little bit and what impact that's had on your entrepreneurial journey in this industry.
My dad was a Chinese immigrant. My mom was a church organist. I'm one of five kids. And, you know, it was very blessed. My dad had a very successful business that he started back in the 1970s. It was a software business. He worked a lot of banks on Wall Street. Fast forward in the early 90s, they went through bankruptcy, and my dad had to pick himself back up. Now, at that age, being 13, it was a very impressionable time in my life. And I kind of realized at an early, early time in my life that anything could be taken from at any time. And so I had these core values that kind of led me through high school and through college, where it's like, I'm gonna work my ass off, operate with a high degree of integrity, and those are the two things that no one can take from me, ever. And so that kind of stuck to me and. And stuck to who I was throughout my entire career. You have to be willing to bet on yourself. You have to be willing to take chances. And I'm willing that I'm going to work harder than my competition, I'm going to work harder than peers in industry, and I'm going to grind. And part of that's my upbringing. And you have to bet on yourself, too.
