348. How A Meme Empire Became A Multimillion Dollar Packaging Business

Most people spend decades building wealth — Jason Wong turned $500 into a $15 million company at age 23.

In this episode of The Root of All Success, Jason Duncan sits down with Jason Wong — serial entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Packing Duck, and one of the most resourceful young builders in e-commerce.

After immigrating from Hong Kong at age 8, Jason started hustling in the backs of restaurants, launched his first business at 14, built a 30-million-follower meme empire on Tumblr as a teenager, and eventually turned problems he encountered into multimillion-dollar opportunities.

Jason shares how he made $250,000 in 7 days selling a coloring book that didn’t exist yet, why he targeted TikTok influencers with 500 followers instead of 50,000, and how frustration with slow, overpriced packaging led him to build an 8-figure manufacturing company without venture capital.

This conversation dives into:

•Selling candy in school at 14 and realizing the internet was his way out

•Building a 30M-follower Tumblr network and turning memes into $190k profit in 9 days

•The Holy Meme Bible: pre-selling $250k of a product that didn’t exist yet

•Launching Doe Lashes with $500 and reaching a $15M valuation in year one

•Why nano-influencers with 500 followers beat large influencer campaigns

•A Christian conversation card game doing $10M in year one from a single SKU

•How each new business solved a problem from the previous one

•Why the packaging industry became an 8-figure opportunity

•Tripling a factory’s revenue in 6 months and earning equity in the company

•Turning a 12-year Alibaba sales rep into his COO

•Why he’s bootstrapped everything and never raised venture capital

•Using AI tools to turn factories into an “Ironman suit” for manufacturing

•His vision to build a global platform connecting 100+ certified factories

If you’re an immigrant entrepreneur, building with limited resources, or turning problems into businesses — this episode shows what’s possible when hustle meets opportunity.

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Jason Wong’s Website: www.packingduck.com

Jason Wong’s Book: The Holy Meme Bible

Jason Wong’s Brands: Packing Duck (packaging manufacturing), Doe Lashes (exited)

Jason Wong’s Instagram: @pug

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