Asian Hustle Network

Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 188 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have David Hsiao on this week's show. We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned! David worked in the hotel business after college (wanted to get into the restaurant business) before moving to a fintech startup. He learned more about crypto while here and in early 2017, he started his first company in the crypto business. In 2017, he founded Black Diamond Group, a cryptocurrency consulting firm based out of Singapore. The company works with a variety of cryptocurrency clients such as exchanges, tokens, NFTs, and media outlets. Its scope of work includes marketing, social media management, advisory, token listings, and more. They worked closely with clients such as Binance, OKX, Chainlink, etc. At the same time, he also founded Block Journal, one of the longest-standing blockchain magazines. Block Journal is a monthly digital magazine focused on providing easy-to-understand content to educate and entertain cryptocurrency enthusiasts. They have interviewed and featured many prominent figures in cryptocurrency such as Changpeng Zhao (Binance), Justin Sun (TRON), John McAfee (McAfee Antivirus), Michael Saylor (MicroStrategy), and more. His team is currently working on an NFT Astro Baby Club which just launched. The NFT project is focused on pushing web3 limits, supporting creators, and creating tangible real-world impacts (a portion of all revenue goes to supporting children's charities). David was born in California. He moved to Beijing, China in 1996 and grew up there. He studied Economics at UC San Diego. Then, he returned to Beijing, China to work. Now he is based in California/New York.

Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 187 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Jonathan Lam on this week's show. We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned! Jonathan Lam is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor that has founded and funded several companies across Canada. Currently, he is one of the general partners for Root and Shoot Ventures, an early-stage VC that is investing in digital technologies that will create new markets and level the playing field. Formally he was a managing partner at Kernel and Localcoin, where he helped scale the largest physical exchange in Canada to an eight-figure yearly revenue in a little over a year. He was also the founder and CEO of Peerfunder, a financial services company that empowers small businesses and entrepreneurs through innovative methods of financing. So, it’s autumn. And if you’re planning on getting together with your family, you should protect yourself and them by getting an updated COVID vaccine. If you are 50 or older, you are at greater risk for hospitalization and death. Need more information? Talk to a doctor. Find updated COVID vaccines at https://vaccines.gov. We can do this. Paid for by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 186 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Tina Lee on this week's show. We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned! Five years ago, Tina Lee took a leap of faith and quit her 9-5 to pursue content creation. 596K+ followers later, she now dedicates her time to teaching other aspiring creators how to do the same so they, too, can chase their dreams.

Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 185 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Florence Kwok on this week's show. We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned! Jelcie is bringing the future of nails to your home. With a new semicured gel nail strip technology, Jelcie makes it easy to do curable gel nails at home without the typical dry time, nail damage, or high salon costs. Florence is the CEO and co-founder of Jelcie. She's previously worked on UX research and marketing at Meta, App Annie, and Intuit and is a UC Berkeley graduate.

Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 183 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Bonnie Cheung Sarkissian on this week's show. We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned! Bonnie Cheung Sarkissian is the Owner and Founder of By Bonnie Jewelry, a luxury diamond jewelry boutique, located in the San Francisco Bay Area. As an Asian American immigrant, female entrepreneur, and working mother, she sees the world through a wide lens and finds the industry to be male-dominated and lacking a feminine touch. In her words-- "Luxury is supposed to be about how a product or service makes you feel. That's what's missing in the big-box retail sector. We focus on every single detail, from the craftsmanship and engineering of our jewelry, to how it makes a person feel when they put it on. Whether it’s a gift from a loved one, an engagement ring, or a “treat yourself” moment, that single piece of jewelry is part of a person's journey that they can take with them throughout the rest of their lives. By taking people's stories, inspirations, energy and mixing it with my passion for diamonds and meticulous craftsmanship... that's what makes By Bonnie's pieces so unique."

Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 182 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Tony Thai on this week's show. We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned! Tony Thai is the founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer of HyperDraft, a legal tech startup that is transforming the future of how legal work is done. Tony is a veteran attorney who has practiced at some of the world’s most prestigious law firms and in-house at multiple technology companies. Prior to becoming an attorney, he was an experienced software engineer. When he’s not growing HyperDraft, he is an adjunct professor at USC Gould School of Law and enjoys hiking and playing video games. HyperDraft provides custom document automation software for law firms and legal departments. Users can save 90% of the time typically spent on drafting legal documents. HyperDraft provides immediate value with included implementation and customization services. Today, HyperDraft is used and loved by legal professionals across the U.S. and Canada.

Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 181 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have James Vuong on this week's show. We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned! James is a serial tech entrepreneur, angel investor, and former VC. He has broad experience ranging from engineering to building products, from investing to founding startups, and from Silicon Valley to SE Asia. James is currently the founder and CEO of Infina.vn, the leading investment and wealth management app in Vietnam, backed by Sequoia, Y Combinator, and many reputable global VCs. Prior to Infina, James was CEO of Lana group, a digital media startup acquired by LINE Corp, the listed Japanese chat app. Prior to that, James was a VC at IDG Ventures, Vietnam’s first VC fund with $100M USD. James was a Kauffman Fellow (the first in SE Asia) selected by the Kauffman Foundation in the US in 2008. Prior to coming back to Asia, James held positions as product director and tech lead (in chip logic design) in different companies in Silicon Valley. He received his MBA from Berkeley Haas School of Business in 2006 and BS in EECS at UC Berkeley in 1997.

Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 180 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Jonathan Javier and Jerry Lee on this week's show. We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned! Jonathan Javier is the CEO/Founder of Wonsulting, whose mission is to “turn underdogs into winners”. He's also worked in Operations at Snap, Google, and Cisco coming from a non-traditional background. He's been featured on Forbes 30 Under 30, Fortune, Business Insider, CNBC, The Times, TikTok News, LinkedIn News, Yahoo! News, WSJ, and more as a top job search expert and amassed 1.5M+ followers on LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok as well as 30+ million impressions monthly on his content. Jerry is the COO/Founder of Wonsulting and an ex-Senior Strategy & Operations Manager at Google & used to lead Product Strategy at Lucid. After graduating college, Jerry was hired as the youngest analyst in his organization by being promoted multiple times in his first 2 years. After he left Google, he was the youngest person to lead a strategy team at Lucid. Jerry started Wonsulting to help millions around the world land their dream jobs. Through his work, he’s spoken at 250+ events & amassed 700,000+ followers across LinkedIn, TikTok & Instagram and has reached 200M+ jobseekers globally. In addition, his work has been featured on Forbes, Newsweek, Business Insider, Yahoo! News, LinkedIn & elected as the 2020 LinkedIn Top Voice for Tech & Forbes 30 under 30.

Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 179 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Catherine Yeo on this week's show. We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned! Catherine Yeo is a creator, entrepreneur, and investor studying Computer Science and English at Harvard University. By the age of fifteen, she accumulated a following of hundreds of thousands for her online content and turned content creation into a business. Over the years, her writing has spanned fiction, technical blog posts, personal essays and, now, The Creator Revolution: How Today’s Creative Talents Are Shaping Our Tomorrow. Her work has previously been featured in Teen Vogue, Los Angeles Times, NBC, and other publications. Though she spends much of her days coding and nights writing, Catherine always makes time to read, swim, and cheer her heart out watching her hometown NBA team, the Golden State Warriors.

Welcome back to Season 2, Episode 178 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Annie Vang on this week's show. We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday, so stay tuned! Annie Vang is an iOS application developer. Annie has over twenty years of experience in application development: 10+ years of mobile application development and 10+ years of web application development. Annie currently works for American Family Insurance as an iOS application developer. Annie is also the founder of Golden Fireflies LLC, which provides digital services. In addition, Annie developed an app called HmongPhrases to teach simple Hmong phrases to preserve the Hmong language. Annie also developed an app called Yumaholic to teach Southeast Asian recipes. Annie is passionate about technology and aspires to use her talents to build meaningful apps. Annie also enjoys creating southeast Asian cooking tutorials on her HmongFood Youtube channel, which has 68,000+ subscribers and 12.6 million video views. Annie was born in a refugee camp in Thailand and came to the United States as a refugee following the Vietnam War. Annie is Hmong American. She learned English as a second language, and she used this skill to help translate for her parents. Growing up, Annie's family moved around a lot, and she has lived in various places such as Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, California, and Rhode Island. This experience helped shape Annie's ability to be adaptive and embrace change. Annie faced many obstacles and challenges in her quest for professional development. Number one: discouraged higher education because she was married with a child. Number two: discouragement in IT development because she was a woman and a minority. She fought hard to prove herself and continues to fight for a seat at the table. Today Annie lives in Deforest, WI (north of Madison) with her husband. Annie has one son and four grandchildren. Annie enjoys sewing, embroidery, cooking, crafting, and spending time with her grandchildren in her free time.