The WLD Show

Derek Yang has spent the past decade building creator communities and products at YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, and Yik Yak. He writes a newsletter where shares his learnings on the creator economy: Advance the Creator Economy.

The creator economy is a very much growing trend of content creators making a living, doing what they love. People are turning to creators as  trusted advisors. Brands no longer win with the biggest marketing budget. You can only win if you earn the people's trust. And how do you earn the trust? You embed your brand with the creators.

In this episode we ask Derek about.

• Why his high school friends call him Larry
• Being a door-to-door salesman selling internet to small businesses
• His time at Facebook working with athletes and celebrities
• The dramatic rise and fall of Yik Yak and why it happened
• What he worked on at Twitch
• The conversation within YouTube during Stop AAPI Hate
• What is the creator economy
• What makes a successful creator?
• What do NFTs mean for creators
• How do creator platforms work?
• How fans find and consume content
• Clubhouse and how it might fail
• What the Will and Lee Show can do to cultivate our community and grow

Find Derek online :

• Newsletter: Advance the Creator Economy
• Twitter: @dereklyang
• IG: @derek

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Mindy’s mother was sent to the countryside to do manual labor during the Cultural Revolution. When the government resumed the college entrance exam, her mother out-competed the entire country to earn a spot at China's top university.

Like her parents, Mindy is a high achiever. She graduated summa cum laude from Wharton. Built the New York City product team for Dropbox. And led growth for Oscar Health as the Director of Product. Oscar Health recently IPO'd.

But she found achievement wasn't everything. Her search for meaning led her to reignite and rebuild her relationship with her mother after years of distance. She redesigned her life based on her own definition of success. Today, Mindy has taken the learnings from her journey to help other high achievers find fulfillment.

As a career coach, she partners with leaders and teams who want to achieve big things without forgetting what matters. She also has a  newsletter, The Reset. Where she writes a guide for high achievers seeking greater clarity and fulfillment.

In this episode we ask Mindy about:

• What her parents went through growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution
• How her mother developed her interests and passions as a child
• Why her mother getting diagnosed with stage 4 cancer created distanced in their relationship
• The tools she's using to redevelop her relationship with her immigrant mother
• Why she went to Wharton and what it was like
• Choosing the Google internship over BCG
• What Dropbox was like scaling from 200 to 2000 employees
• What it takes to be a good manager
• Why swing dancing changed her life
• Buying a plot of land and building a new house
• How she started out as a career coach
• How she helps her clients attain their dreams
• She reads us the story of Zumbach the Tailor

Find Mindy online :

• Website: - mindyzhang.com
• Newsletter: The Reset - A high achiever's guide to a meaningful life
• Newsletter: Building a Home
• Teaching at: https://www.thegrand.world/
• IG: https://www.instagram.com/newmoniker/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mindyzh/

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After her parents divorced, Li Ouyang took it upon herself to make money for her mom and younger brother. She hustled her way into finance and soon became rising star as a VP at JP Morgan Chase. After realizing that the finance industry was shrinking, she started her career over in tech.

Today, Li is a software engineer at Coinbase, which recently IPO'd. In this episode we ask Li about:

• Growing up Chinese in rural New Hampshire
• How she hustled her way into finance from a non-Ivy League university
• How she became a VP at JP Morgan Chase
• Why she left finance and how she became a software engineer
• Her experience in startups in Silicon Valley
• Why she she works at Coinbase
• Being a mother during COVID
• Her passion for salsa dancing

Find Li online :

• Twitter - @styliii

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At the age of 40, Elliot Chun left his role as a Director at Investment Banking firm, Perella Weinberg Partners, to explore building a new career in blockchain - a completely new and untested space. Today, Elliot is a Managing Director and lead for emergents.co at Weild & Co.

In this episode we delve into what motivated Elliot to transition to a career in blockchain and the following topics:

• What he does he do at emergents.co?
• How and why Elliot took on career risk to jump into blockchain
• The struggle and false starts he had when transitioning his career
• What is Bitcoin and distributed ledger technology?
• What is Ethereum?
• What is Defi (Decentralized Finance?
• What are NFTs (Non-fungible tokens)?
• The future of blockchain
• Smart cities with blockchain
• Solving climate change with blockchain

Find Elliot online :

• LinkedIn - Elliot Chun
• Emergents.co

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Jeannie has always been a natural at taking care of others, someone who doesn’t take life for granted, and someone who hustles to notice, create, and take advantage of new opportunities. 

In this episode we delve into what’s motivated Jeannie and the following topics:

• Growing up in 7+ cities and attending 12+ schools
• The origin of Jeannie’s ability to memorize
• Maintaining confidence and faith in yourself
• What it’s like to be a real-estate agent and what value you should expect out of a real-estate agent
• How the rich utilize real-estate to develop wealth
• What is real-estate development
• How are real-estate development entities structured
• What it takes to build Ferrari & Maserati dealerships
• Hiring and firing
• How to run a real-estate development process
• Knowing your worth

Find Jeannie online (but really Avery):

• Instagram - @msjeanjo
• Instagram - @chefaveryqjo
• TikTok - @chefaveryqjo

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• How Andrew Hsu - IG @huesdrawn - has created value for our team
• A behind the scenes look at what it's like running a podcast
• Our experience so far running the podcast
• Andrew's company Oscar just went IPO! What that's been like for him.
• Lee's in Taiwan during lockdown to build relationships with the influx of successful and creative people coming back to Taiwan. We ask him how that's been.
• We discuss some future experiments we want to try

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As a third generation Hong Kong entrepreneur, Julian Chow grew up knowing he'd carry his family's legacy. His passion for travel and intimate love with Hong Kong has inspired him to craft the perfect travel backpack. Building on his grandfather's knowlege in manufacturing and his father's expertise in product design, Julian's mission is make Able Carry a brand that Hong Kong can be proud of.

Find Able Carry online:

• Instagram: @ablecarryco
• Website: ablecarry.com
• Discount Code for Will and Lee Show listeners: willandlee

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Jonathan graduated from UCLA 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. He's an associate at the Venture Capital firm, Global Silicon Valley. He has a Tiktok for Gen Z VCs, @venturecapitalguy. And is the founder of Gen Z Scouts, a fellowship program that trains college students to identify and vet college startup founders for angels and VC firms.   Prior to his full-time position at Global Silicon Valley, he had the following internships during college:

• Summer Venture Capital Analyst - Good AM Ventures
• Campus Partner - Ground Up Ventures
• Data Science/Data Analytics - Yumi
• Analytics Intern - NBCUniversal Media
• Investor Relations  - Lionsgate
• Venture Capital Analyst Intern - Pontifax Global Food and Agriculture Technology Fund
• Investment Intern - Expert Dojo
• Associate Consultant - Phoenix & Powell
• Startup Advisor - Ambii

Find Jonathan online:

• Instagram: @jonathanchxng
• Tiktok: @venturecapitalistguy
• Twitter: @thechangj
• Gen Z Scouts: genzscouts.com

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At 19, Tom Ngo, started club promoting by passing out flyers. In no time, he set out to become the Asian American Puff Daddy, throwing his own nightclub events and managing artists.

Always the visionary and innovator, Tom has helped push Asian American representation to where we are today. Over his career, Tom has:

• Managed Asian American artists like Far East Movement, MC Jin, Dumbfounded, and Keith Ape.
• Helped create CXSHXNLY, an Asian American artist management company that later became 88rising.
• Helped create ISATV, an Asian American Media platform, with co-creaters Wongfu Productions and Far East Movement.
• Founded Jetset LA, an Asian American events company, that has done over 4000 nightclub events.

Today, Tom is the head of content for PopShop Live a livestreaming e-commerce app. Find Tom online:

• Tom Ngo TED Talk: I am Azn American
• Good Luck Glow Up Podcast: @goodluckglowup
• @tomngo422
• PopShop Live: popshop.live
• A16Z's Article on Livestream E-commerce: Shopatainment: Video Shopping as Entertainment

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Mike Mar grew up learning how to stand up himself as an Asian American on the streets of San Francisco. Captain of the high school football team, Prom King, Homecoming King, Mike was the big man on campus. Yet too Asian for some, not Asian enough for others, Mike felt different and alone growing up.

After graduating from UCLA as an Asian American studies major, Mike went home to San Francisco to make a difference with the people from his community. First as a community case manager, working with students that were incarcerated in juvenile hall. Mike realized to have a real impact he had to get into education to do prevention. To give the tools to help a student make wise decisions.

Today, Mike is an Academic School Counselor at the San Francisco Unified School District at Balboa High School.

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