Tech Archives - Navigating the Rise

11Jun 2020 by georgewp

[S2] [E10] How to Bridge Cultural Differences in Asian & Western Businesses with Kenneth Randall, VP of Product at HED Social

Culture affects us personally and professionally. Because of globalization, cultural diversity has become increasingly present in almost all aspects of life. However, bridging cultural differences is a challenge, especially for those who live and work in a foreign land. In this episode, Kenneth Randall shares how he, as an American, adapted to the Asian culture. He talks about his professional engagements with Asians and their impact on his personal life. Ken expounds on the differences between the Asian and Western cultures and how he bridges them. To know more about bridging cultural differences, tune in to this episode! Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode: Know the differences between Asian and Western cultures.Learn how to integrate other cultural values into your own.Understand how cultural differences…

28May 2020 by georgewp

[S2] [E9] How to Use Anxiety to Be an Effective Marketing Consultant with Sunni Sukumar, Marketing Director at preHIRED

Business, Culture, Tech

We can turn pain into something beautiful. Through the learnings we acquired from painful moments, we can be a beacon of hope to other people enduring the same struggles. This is especially true for a marketing consultant, who must focus on people's emotions. We shouldn't allow pain and fear to stop us from living a meaningful life. Instead, it should be a stepping stone to become a better person and give inspiration to those who need it. In today's episode, Sunni Sukumar discusses how he turned his pain and anxiety into a useful tool in his career as a marketing consultant. He shares with us how he provides value to his customers by igniting their “levels of desire.” Sunni also talks about why marketing is a healing art and how…

14Apr 2020 by georgewp

[S2] [E6] How to Start a Business Abroad When You Are Elsewhere with Surbhi Rathore, Co-founder at Symbl.ai

Business, Culture, Tech

This week we had the opportunity to speak with Surbhi Rathore. Surbhi Rathore is the CEO and Co-Founder of Symbl, the first conversational intelligence API Platform that automatically analyzes free-flowing human to human natural conversations to generate shared knowledge and actionable insights. Symbl recently expanded its operations from India to the United States after closing its $1.8M in venture funding, 6 months back. They have grown teams in India and Seattle to over 25 people and work as a distributed family of tech junkies spread across geographic regions. She comes with a background in various technical and customer-obsessed roles across startups and enterprises like Nevis Networks and Amdocs. Prior to leading Symbl, she was working in the Conversational AI space focussed on delivering value to Telco users. She is also…

28Mar 2020 by georgewp

[S2] [E5] How to Be an Expert at Emergent Technologies with Amit Joshi, CEO of HashPrix

Business, Culture, Tech

For any company, integrating innovation with your business model is key to delivering better products and services to your customers. If you’re looking into using emergent technologies in your business, you have to innovate and use your resources well. In this week’s episode, we’re chatting with Amit Josh, the CEO of the blockchain domain company HashPrix. Amit shares his entrepreneurial journey, and he lets us in on his knowledge on how to be an expert quickly at new technologies. He also talks more in-depth about how residing in different countries has helped shape his perspective not only in business but also in life. This episode is packed with valuable insights on entrepreneurship and firsthand experiences on different cultural exposure. I hope you get loads of takeaways after the show! Here…

28Oct 2019 by Navigating the Rise

[S1][E20][P3/3] Cheat Guide for Asian Professionals with Jerry Lee, Strategy and Operations Manager at Google

Culture, Tech

In this episode, Jerry Lee gave us some top tips on how to overcome some of the perceived limitations of being Asians. Also, we addressed some of the cultural nuances that affected Asians in the workplace in the United States. Jerry Lee is an admin from the Subtle Asian Networking Group in the US, and he takes his experience in the group as a guide on how to overcome these potentially harmful perceived traits. Be aware of the Asian upbringings on, and values growing and try to understand them as strengths instead of weaknesses Asians tend to be hard workers and put their heads down. That is great; however, the lack of challenging the status quo causes issues as that puts Asians in a bind is not being perceived super…

29Jul 2019 by Navigating the Rise

[S1] [E15] How to Change Your Mindset to Be an Entrepreneur w/ Rick Nguyen, Co-Founder of Spot Trender

Business, Tech

This week we have the opportunity to speak with Ricky Nguyen, who is the Co-founder of Spot Trender. As Co-founder at Spot Trender, Rick creates and refines enterprise solutions for professional advertisers to win hearts and minds. He built Spot Trender from scratch to profitability. In his spare time, Rick enjoys various projects to promote STEM education and advanced science in the United States. Background Rick appreciates his situation as an immigrant from Vietnam. For him, he believes that because he immigrated, he had the perspective of Vietnamese as well as incorporating the perspective of Americans. Also, Rick attributes much of his success as being able to combine the two different aspects and happy to have immigrated here. Because of the upbringing within America, Rick had a paradigm shift. He…

29Jun 2019 by Navigating the Rise

[S1] [E13] How You Look at Life When Your Company Is at $100 Million w/ Harrison Tang, CEO of Spokeo

Business, Tech

This week we have the opportunity to speak with Harrison Tang, who is now the CEO and Co-founder of Spokeo. According to an article from Hyperlush, the company has achieved significant milestones to be where they are now. Harrison gave us many insights on how his upbringing helped him where he is now. He attributed much of the success to the support of his family and words of wisdom. However, what he said made a significant mark on his life was when he immigrated here from Taiwan. He went from the top of his class to the bottom of the class due to the language barrier. His father also told him that going back to Taiwan is not an option. Even if the job is washing dishes, Harrison's father said…

14Jun 2019 by Navigating the Rise

[S1] [E12] Why Asians Want to Be Engineers w/ George Lu, the Data Engineer at Figure

Tech

George Lu - Data Eng. This week I have the opportunity to interview George (not me) since his last name is Lu. We give a load down on what it is like to be an engineer in today's world. Right now being in tech is as crazy as it was to be in finance about 10+ years ago. Given the added pressure from Asian parents to be an engineer, we explored what it takes to be an engineer. We went through all the tribulations of studying and training needed to be an engineer, as well as a software engineer in modern times. Some significant points we touched upon include the transition of traditional software engineering to data engineering because of the rise of AI technologies. No longer will engineers be…

15Apr 2019 by Navigating the Rise

[S1] [S8] How to Overcome Family Absences by Yourself w/ Steven Xu, Chief & Project Engineer at Aerojet Rocketdyne

Culture, Tech

This week I had the opportunity to interview Steven Xu, a rocket scientist, at Aerojet Rocketdyne. I have known him since high school and the grit he exhibited to get to where he is now. We explored how lack of family presence, whether physically or emotionally, has a significant impact on us. Steven went deep into how he helped himself through college application, career planning, as well as managing emotional turmoil with Asian parents. Steven mentioned how he explores his relationship with his parent's lack of involvement and how he copes with that, including going to the therapist to overcome those his historical experiences.

12Mar 2019 by Navigating the Rise

[S1] [E6] America and Asia: Why You Get Frustrated w/ Calvin Shen, Director of Software Architect

Business, Culture, Tech

This week we explored with an Asia-West work veteran who had spent a significant amount of time in both regions and noticed the dichotomy of the differences. Specific examples include how the US value the terms in the contracts while those of Asian counterparts only use contracts as a reference and decide to make changes as they see fit. On the other hand, Asia has a tendency to follow the rules strictly, especially in hierarchical structures, yet the western counterpart tends to want to break the rules for innovation and hierarchy hardly exists.

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