Brandon Tseng

And then on my dad's side, his dad actually fought in World War II.

He was a nationalist in China fighting the Japanese.

Wow.

Yeah, fighting the communists and then left China when the communists took over, left with Chiang Kai-shek.

And come back, you'd get an A on a test and 96%.

My dad would say, why didn't you get 100%?

You get 100%, my dad would say, was there extra credit?

And if there was none, he'd be like, all right, good job.

So right on.

I think we're all...

Look, one of the things that was always, you know, be grateful, work hard, right?

You know, don't give up the opportunity that's been set in front of you guys.

Like, don't let that go to waste.

And so that was something, you know, ingrained in us from my parents and then from my dad's side of the family who had, you know, come from, you know, seeing war-torn communist China to, you know, growing up.

My grandfather was a diplomat in South America, so they grew up in South America and then, you know,

So just a sense of gratefulness and work hard and be thankful for the opportunity.

And what they would tell us is you won the lottery being born in the United States of America.

And didn't really appreciate that until I would say I saw more of the world and joined the Navy and saw the rest of the world.

And like, yeah, I think if you're born in the United States of America, you have absolutely won the lottery in a very positive way.

Uh, yeah, in the sense that I wanted, you know, I joined the SEAL teams and, you know, I think that was, you know, different for them.