168 - "Fail" at Stanford to Succeed in Life: Tony Ngo - Co-founder Everest Education

The Vietnamese with Kenneth Nguyen · Aug 8, 2022 · 53m

In this wide-ranging talk, we discuss how Tony Ngo went from overcoming failure and fear at Stanford to becoming an uber-networked professional, how the topic of du học sinh became the catalyst for Tony to develop a career bridging Vietnamese communities to international ones, and how he explained to his parents who left Vietnam as refugees his career pivot from the US to the country many of us left.

Tony grew up in Orange, CA as the oldest son of refugees, and has lived the idealized American immigrant story: parents working insane hours, focusing on education, and giving back to your…