Jesse Zhang

So one, I'm very grateful for that.

And I think that's also why when I talk about my generation of there are a lot of immigrant parents from my generation that came over for grad school and they're all around my age.

And I think that's like our crop of folks just are doing very well, probably because of that, probably because of the upbringing.

And then what my parents did, I think, which is the more unique side, is that a lot of times what happens, especially it's like the stereotypical Asian parent, is that that just like continues.

And you just have like overbearing parents.

I would say even though my parents were very intense about things, they never had any like semblance of like overbearingness.

They wouldn't like prevent us from doing things we wanted to do, force us to like, hey, you should like...

pick this or whatever, and so on.

What happened was towards the end of middle school into high school, I think we had already kind of established these personalities.

Basically, my parents just pounded a sort of lazy, wanted to play around kid into someone that was just very, very driven.

Then to their credit, they just completely laid off.

They don't have any opinions on what we do for careers, what we should do.

They're like very supportive.

So I think that's very kind because you cannot replace, you can't even pay for that.

You basically just need parents that are willing to spend a ton of time crafting this childhood.

for you to develop this.

And I think a lot of the things I have in life right now are from that.

So that's probably the kindest thing.

And my sister as well, like even growing up, she was, I think there was a lot of pressure on me and in some way for like parents that immigrate who are also ambitious folks, it's very hard for them to succeed themselves in a new environment, a new country.

So they put a lot of expectations on their children.