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My dad died when I was 11. Days before he died, he signed his life insurance over to my uncle. What my family did after that is the series I’m known for, Poor Crazy Asians.
My mom raised my two sisters and me. Fifteen years ago she got cancer. We saw nine doctors, and eight of them gave her about six months. She has had stage 4 cancer ever since, and I’ve been her caregiver the whole time.
I’m married with two kids, four and two. I’m trying to be the dad I only had for eleven years.
On September 17, 2026, I started talking to my phone about all of it. I had two rules. It had to be fun, and I would test everything and track the numbers. Most of the people who watch are women, and many of them write back with their own family’s story. A lot of them have asked for a book. I haven’t started one, and I’m thinking about it.
Where I came from
I studied computer engineering and economics at UC Irvine, and then I got my MBA at Stanford. After that I worked mostly in corporate finance and real estate.
My mom got cancer fifteen years ago. In 2015 I left corporate work, and the plan I had for my career went with it.
I needed work I could do from home, around her care. So I started teaching what I knew. I made online courses in real estate and finance for Udemy and LinkedIn Learning. More than half a million students have taken them, with over 800,000 enrollments.
I wrote three books in those years. They came out in 2020, and the second edition of Airbnb For Dummies came out in 2023.
Then AI tools arrived, and people found new ways to learn. The courses and the books earn less than they did. I had to start over again, and this time I started with the stories I’d never told.
I also make Homebrew Club, a YouTube channel about building small software tools, with my friend Jim.