The Fursuit of Happiness with Kiko Zang

Founder Mode · Sep 17, 2026 · 31m

EPISODE 74

Kiko Zang spent more than half her life pretending to be someone else — born in China, sent alone to boarding school in New Zealand at 12, then to USC at 17, then back to China as the Chinese-looking person who couldn't hold an adult conversation in Chinese. Pretending, as she puts it, was a survival instinct that became one of her strongest skills. In this episode she traces that pattern from the classroom in China where she refused to rehearse a fake PTA lesson, through the years of self-censoring at work, to the full head-to-toe mascot costume she wore around crypto conferences…