Being an Asian-American business creator.

25 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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This content was created by Eric Siu. This content was uploaded by Eric Siu. This is a YouTube video titled "Being an Asian-American business creator." (posted 2023-12-25) containing a short diarized exchange between two speakers. The discussion focuses on the experience of being an Asian-American creator who combined a Wall Street/personal-finance background with media/digital experience (BuzzFeed) to build a creator business. The speaker describes feeling 'nerdy' and initially being mocked for their niche, but ultimately finding commercial success and proving doubters wrong. The excerpt reads like an interview or conversational segment about identity, career blending, and overcoming early ridicule.

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You're on a pod talking about how just being an Asian American business creator almost is like our version of taking a chance as immigrants. So what do you mean by that?
That's so humiliating, right? Because I certainly couldn't be a cool influencer. I couldn't be a fashion girly or a food girly or sport girly or a workout girly. I had to choose the nerdiest topic to be a creator about. But it is a blending of the 2 things that I found to be really good at. My personal finance, finance piece from Wall Street. At BuzzFeed, I was working in the tech, media, like entertainment digital space. And then I just jammed those things together and that's what I do for a living now. So yeah, is it a little nerdy? Sure. And did I get made fun of when I first started doing it? Of course. And people laughed at me. Nobody laughed when they found out how much my business made last year. Nobody laughed.