Really glad this resonated. Honestly, this was one of the most comfortable and open conversations I’ve had in a while. The room and the energy that afternoon just felt right -- speaking to so many founders standing at that exact same fork in the road I faced early on made it easy to share what really brought me to Silicon Valley.
Thank you SBVA @SoftBank for the opportunity!
Thank you SBVA @SoftBank for the opportunity!
I recently watched @stevechen's fireside chat with SBVA and deeply resonated with his advice for foreign founders new to SVView quoted post on X
"you have to be comfortable being uncomfortable in Silicon Valley. You have to go to the events where you really don't know anybody at that event.
Staying in a community where they're all using Mandarin will not make any difference from you just staying in Taiwan"
this is exactly how I felt about leveraging the advantage of SV, where you can just meet people like you and where it compounds faster than anywhere else
I intentionally stepped outside my comfort zone(Korean community) on my latest SF trip unlike my first visit last year
I stayed at Superhero Hotel where working in the lobby often turned into conversations with founders in YC, a16z, and SkyDeck
over two months, I had 39 coffee chats and went to 35 events, from Rho's opening party to a YC friend's birthday, and numerous Luma and Pariful events. I also stopped by FInc’s Open Campus almost every day
much of my favorite experience came from those two months and it was so exciting to see the connections compound
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