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William Wang

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  1. “Respectable? Yeah. So my GPA wasn't good enough, or UCLA wasn't good enough for Stanford, Berkeley. Somehow, I got into UIC. And my mom, she highly recommended to become an engineer because, you know, the high paid jobs are engineers and like $30,000 a year. I got into electrical engineer at UIC, which is kind Not my personal favor. I like art. I want to be an architect. It's alright. I think I don't know any better too. I'm just following my mom's guidance. Advice. Yes.”

    2025-04-14 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Vizio: William Wang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “Having a good Chinese parent. Of course, they want me to get a PhD or something. There was always an expectation High school because of the disconnect for a couple years, my GPA was okay. My math is pretty good. Of course, my English was poor. And I think I'm at GPA in high school was like 3.3.”

    2025-04-14 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Vizio: William Wang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “Hard and no friend, right? And don't know anybody's tough as a kid. You know, I want to try out sports. I had no idea how to do it. And, of course, I failed. Just difficult.”

    2025-04-14 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Vizio: William Wang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “So he saw taxi on the runway pretty rapidly because I think he won to beat the typhoon. So I was on a plane. I was setting numbers, I think, 22. I request a seat. Nobody was next to me. So I was watching People magazine. And we hit the liftoff speed, 165 mph. And my portion of the plane was up in the air. And then I heard this noise like somebody knocking on the door. Say, what the heck is that? Obviously. Sounds really bad happened.”

    2025-04-14 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Vizio: William Wang · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT