I’m from beautiful Manhattan Beach, CA, where my Asian parents forced me to play the violin every day.

I’m the founder of Five9 and DoctorBase, co-founder of 6connect, and an advisor to Halloo.
I try to stay a busy boy.

Every day in startups seems like a challenging puzzle, but I couldn’t imagine doing anything else. I find humor helps the process, so please don’t be offended if I offend you.

Jul

Obama says, “Wow – Asian kids are good at math!”

OK, President Obama didn’t say that (in exact words verbatim) but in what is to be yet another surefire advancement towards the stereotype of Asian guys loving math, this year’s “Mathletes” from the 2010 national math competition (MathCounts) were uhm… you guessed it (even if you were too politically correct to say it out loud) a bunch of Asians. Have mixed feelings about this one…

this pic is from the White House website:

$Obama meets 2010 math counts winners at white house$

1 Asian guy, 2 Asian guys, 3....

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josh on July 12, 2010 at 12:45 am said:

Hey- you Asian kid in the library- can you answer this math problem for me? 9+)

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John Sung Kim

Obama says, “Wow – Asian kids are good at math!”

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