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Saeju Jeong

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first: 2022-08-08
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“So we met and we had a dinner and then we were speaking until 4 a.m. that day. Wow. And I learned about his background as a Ukraine and his immigrant life, all that. So I realized, oh, wow, probably that also helped him to understand my struggles and he has empathy. So we had a great conversation. Yes.”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think I want to try to start a business. That's the basic high level comment that I had, which nobody actually cared, kind of. Okay. But he actually was curious about. And I got his email. And that night, train back to it, take a one hour, 20 minute, back to North Mospe, who I came back. That night, I wrote a letter to him, email, and I received email back the next day. I still remember. He said, the first line was, wow, CJ. What a great email I never ever received this kind of like such a great kind email. And I suggested to him, I think we should meet. And he agreed. And he came to North Massapico, not New York City, the next day.”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, what happened was I was sitting with a complete princess alumni people, right? And they would not give me any interest to pay attention to this random guy, right? And I was trying to participate in this like, You know, a lot of random topic here and there, that table here, table, and also get lost. But I was like, oh, I want to know about this guy, but I cannot get into. In Arto, he paid attention. I was like, wow, this man has a pretty good empathy to me, like immigrant and nobody.”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. I can say that. Exactly. 100%. I'm the only non Princeton and foot on even this prophecies. I was kind of an odd guy. And I was invited. And they were like very nerdy Princeton guys, right? And they were looking for, oh, we should explore New York City because we are in New York. We should not just go to bar. And I told them, hey guys, I'm going to take care of you because that's how it works in Korea. And I took them to Korean bar. Oh my.”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right. So they were looking for a bar, and by the way, they call themselves like we are Princeton University eating club like alumni.”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was completely lonely. Really, I was lonely. I even spent like 40 minutes with print, the custom support center because I was lonely sometimes. I want to learn English.”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I remember that. I brought like $5,000. $5,000. Below $5,000 actually. And the reason is I gave all my money to my mom, what I made from Biehart, and I reset myself again. Supporter, I guess you're”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes. And I know how to make money, I think. I will not die out of a starving. I will do it again. And what helped me to, once I cracked our million dollar revenue, That really changed the way I see the money.”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No one, no single human, no when I left Korea, my mom, I told my mom, mom, I figure from Baihar production, at first I made more than a million dollars, mom.”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, yeah, of course. I figured my path of being an entrepreneur from buy heart distribution and production, and I was looking for how I can scale that up and do better and learn. So yeah, 100%.”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Take this event too bad, that's what he said. And he goes, I am sad personally because I know you have a greater potential and you will achieve a success. And that story I cannot be there, I cannot watch, so I just realized it is true. I am here with some talent, but I have more and I don't know what else I can do better and I should optimize and learn so I can become a better person.”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes. And he yelled at me and actually slept on my face. Hey, Seju two years stop morning Your dad is gone. You gotta wake up. And I ask back, is that long? Yeah, two years. I think that's enough. Don't you think, son? And I go like, Yeah, two years And then I changed my perspective of thinking on that event of the death of my father and then I paid attention if he is alive what would he care at this moment? An answer became very clear because before he passed away a second Siju my only departure will make you very strong, very strong. That's what he said You are sad today but you become very strong like the bird know how to fly birds that get out from the nest sooner they can learn how to fly faster and you are basically doing that right now. I'm kicking you out of nest so not”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My military experience was very invaluable to me and extremely helpful to me at this moment. What happened was after my father passed away two years after my senior podcast”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Difficult. I also realize now I'm like basically my father's departure and the last month with him was a precious gift to me and to my family and that event completely changed the way I view the world still today”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Talent and entrepreneurship all that, right? And I felt like I was derailed, but now I'm on track. That's how I felt. But when I heard that, I felt like it's too early to receive the message. I need you to be there so I can show you, you know. And it was very difficult, very difficult.”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Go home for. Mom might have discussion together. And my sister was already there. And as usual, my father was in the center of the dino table, and my father laid out what happened and what's going to happen. So he basically told us that he got a lung cancer. Tell me the lung cancer, that stage four. Very serious condition that as a doctor, he knows what's going to happen and not much time left. The message was very He delivered that very calmly. He didn't set the false expectation, nor he didn't give up. He said, so this is a very unfortunate, but I'm going to engage with discipline, that plan. He laid out the plans with the chemotherapy. But it was not easy to digest the information. Very difficult. I was into very, I really loved finally, I couldn't tell my dad finally I found my direction that I think I have a”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, what happened was the business grew really fast, and I got a call from my mom one day. And, you know, my mom's voice was kind of like, not normal. I can tell something's wrong. She goes like Siju, we need to have you now and we are going to have some family discussion. And I was like, oh my God, mom, don't tell me it's about the health, right? It's about health about you or that and my mom just sat up like I can't hear from the phone that She was crying and was like, Oh man, really mom, really? And then I took a train back to Yosuvens to get there. It was the longest travel ever I had. Like, you know, the feeling of anxiety?”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And you know what? Yes, heavy metal music will never become like major music. I get that. But once you are into Heaven Metal Music, brother, sister, you love it. You are there.”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. So when I started, I needed like around 3,000 grand I had in my bank because that money was a paddy cash I received since elementary school.”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, yeah, I have personal story that didn't last that long, but it was quite successful in the beginning, to be honest. I was lucky that 1999, the dot-com arrived. Right. So it was perfect time that I could convert that. I didn't need to have a retail space. I could start online. And my best friend was like computer nerd. And I asked him, can you do dot-com? He's no problem.”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Correct, so I did it as a Baihart distribution first, and then it evolved by the production. So the answer is no, but yes.”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly So I took her like forty five minutes away and got there finally and then do you have that album for like it's got some Norway and Beno Berger yeah I don't have it but you told me that like one hour you have it so that's why I came sold out and I was like that's it yep and when can I get it probably like another month or two months give it a try a month later kid and they treat it like bad And I was so mad about this attitude and then I was in deep thinking on the way back and I found the company next day. It's called Biehard”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I got into more. I mean, because I went to school in Seoul, right? So I was kind of like forced to be independent. So I received ultimate freedom kind of. I listened to Madam Moore music. I had expectation if I come to Seoul, which is kind of like the city in my world. I kind of have an easy access to have metal music, which was very difficult to purchase from Yosu where I grew up. Because by the time I was already listening beyond Metallica, I was listening to like. Death Metal from Philadelphia, nobody cares. I want to listen to that. I have to buy from some importing record studio and it's just hard. Remember those days CD and Cassette Tape that you have to purchase not a streaming service?”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I enter the school and I study electro engineering because it looks very safe choice, right? In terms of career growth and Korea is kind of known for You know, a lot of good company like Samsung LG. But I'll be honest, from day one, I was like, why am I here? That's all day long I was thinking. I couldn't pay attention to orientation of the program at school. And I was a completely lost guy. I was completely lost from like. Why am I waking up and where am I going to school and class and I was shocked how much I have a study about advanced physics and magnetic field all that stuff and I was like oh my god am I going to study this and also like what if I become a best student I may have a chance to go to Samsung Electrics which is a best case outcome oh my god my life is like a Doomed. That's how I felt.”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Pantera. And he actually listened to the Pantera music with me and I said, Dad, this is so good. Don't you think I might go? Yeah, it's very energetic, right? And let's go and have some dinner. Just like that. They respect my hobby, I would say.”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What did they say? They just laugh at me. That's the part I really, really appreciate my parent, that they both were extremely generous. They did not judge me badly. My father never asked, why do you like it? My father just was like, you like the music. And dad is so good. And one day I remember clearly just to kind of gift that I brought him to my room and I played Pantera. You know Pantera?”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, one day I listened, you can accidentally listen to some like have metal music from radio station. And I caught that and asked my sister, hey, sister, what was that music? Oh, it's called Hard Rug in America Hard rock, and I went to the record store and then asked, I want to buy a hard rock music. And he gave me the metallica. And that was a beginning when I was like nine.”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Extreme hardcore metal. Exactly. It's just like a heavmetal 101 is a Mega Dash, right? And then enter into a deeper level like Death Metal, like Black Metal Progress Metal. All the metals, like you can imagine. You don't want to even, you know, like it's intense fasts and crazy guitar if that's my music”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, yeah, Mega, this is a good start, I would say. Mega Death Metallica is a good start. I recommend you. I mean, all the listeners, by the way, they are still very good, and their albums are great. Still amazing.”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Vividly remember that I cry so hard, like I closed the door because it's so embarrassing, stupid. It has to be really top of the top. And I was okay. So I was, oh God, how can I deliver this news to my parent, right? And I felt exactly, and I still didn't remember that that day the afternoon, you know, the sun looks very gray and the world was kind of really like coming down. That's how I felt because I failed. That's the outcome.”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was a good student, I would say, and I studied hard and I call that judgment day. The day arrived and I took an exam and I did my best. And I was waiting for the result, and the reason came out just like a little shy to be guaranteed to go to medical school because all the good students go to medical school. So I was like, okay, we'll see. It was a little shy number. We'll see, but I failed. So I couldn't get into medical college.”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was a preset, to be honest guy. It was preset. Yeah. I didn't even have an. Thorbot becoming a non-doctor career in my life.”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“100% yes. My family background has a little story that our family, we run the hospital together. My uncles are doctors and my aunts are all pharmacists. So the general theme of Jung family is like we have to produce more doctors. So the pressure was like extra, to be honest.”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Very important. On your exam like SAT test in South Korea is very important, and that is a major parameter to measure how good student you are from college. And that test is designed that every single student take an exam at the same day, at the same time, and same test I mean, I still don't get it, kind of. If you are on the well that day, for some reason, stomach ache, or if you are just sick You are screwed. It's your business that you did not manage your condition well. Because they give the exact time Exact date for entire class out of entire nation is taking an exam at the same time. You'll be surprised even the airport stopped the service because they want to make sure The student can pay attention during the test.”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know in America, people speak about tiger mom, tiger, something like that, right? I would say Korea is kind of tiger society tiger parent tiger teacher, I would say. Let me give you an example. You will not believe this, but I will tell you exact my memory. In my high school, I went to school by 8 o'clock in the morning. And I came home 10 45 p.m. Yes”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So hot, yeah, everyone just wearing the underwear and there's a fan, just give one fan and one tiny AC was like struggling to blow out the cold air because it's not cold anymore. Even like one of the engineers had like the towel around his neck because he was sweating too much. And I had hard time not cry because I felt so bad.”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The reality was, guys, that we didn't have much money left in the bank. I remember we had like $2,700 and I returned to our one bedroom office during the summer. I remember we had one tiny AC and super hot. So we were all like wearing only the underwear.”
2022-08-08 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Noom: Saeju Jeong · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT