Cofounder, K Health
Search every verified Jon Wang interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Jon Wang, a cofounder at K Health, has been active as an author and leadership coach under the brand "Big Asian Energy." In a podcast appearance, Wang described the concept as encouraging Asian people to step into their "full power and strength" and to be "unapologetic" about their identity. He stated that purpose is not discovered but created internally, and he criticized what he described as a Western "fervor of individuality," suggesting that Asian cultural values of collectivism and living with family could be beneficial. Wang also mentioned founding a nonprofit called One Kindness, which he described as promoting "selflessness through selfishness" through daily acts of kindness. In 2022, Wang, then a freshman at Georgia Tech, spoke in support of the Students for Fair Admissions lawsuit against Harvard University. He stated that he had been a rejected Harvard applicant despite a 1590 SAT score and a 4.65 GPA, and he argued that universities use diversity policies to limit Asian American acceptance, comparing the practice to historical Jewish quotas. Separately, a different individual named Dr. John Wang, a vascular and endovascular surgeon, has appeared in interviews discussing the medical procedure of angioplasty, describing its minimally invasive nature, applications, risks, and recovery process.
“Purpose is something that feels personally fulfilling which is just is this like I use the metaphor of a mountain. If you feel like your life has no purpose, it's usually because you're not picking a challenge that is yours.”
“We don't discover a purpose, we create a purpose. We [expletive] up the languaging when we first gave it a brand and we said go find your purpose and people think it's outside of them. I think that purpose is internal.”
“I think the core of Big Asian Energy is just big you. It's big you energy. It's being authentically you. Whether or not you're Asian, whatever identification you want to hold on to, that's fine. But make sure it's you and make sure it's authentic.”
“There's a Japanese term called hikikomori which is somebody who experiences social withdrawal and it has become such a common issue that the Japanese government actually appointed a minister of loneliness for this.”
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Mr. Jon Wang is a 2nd generation Chinese American and a freshman majoring in Computer Science at Georgia Tech. He was a rejected Harvard applicant this year. He has seen far less qualified applicants be accepted due to their ethnicity and is determined to fight for equality in our education rights.
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