The Exchanges

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Answered raw tape D 4 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30

Q of the bubble and experience new things. And I was always itching to get to San Francisco because the energy there is just, it's all there. That's where tech is. Um, you go there and you feel like a tourist, but like, that's, that's what's going on. And in terms of Lighthouse, I'd love to understand what's your mission. How did you discover this problem? How big is this problem?

A So Lighthouse is your full stack immigration solution for the world's best and brightest. The problem is in some ways, how come you can do your taxes online? Uh, you can incorporate your company online. Um, you can get the expert support that you need, um, should you want it, but there's no reason why some of these processes, especially when interacting with, um, regular, regulated industries, like shouldn't be much more fast, simple, and straightforward. And today, part of, like, the mission, or big, the mission itself is actually, how do you unlock the world's best and brightest to be able to do what they are meant to do, right? Do what they build. Um, and the US is kind of like a titan of the global technology industry, right? And it's a beacon, oftentimes, for people who want to be ambitious, and this is still the destination for a lot of those individuals who want to do extraordinary things. And we have this singularly bureaucratic process that keeps them from being able to either come or stay. And so a lot of what motivates me and our core, core vision here is we want to democratize access to high skilled immigration because it happens to be one of the biggest assets that this country has. And for decades and decades, we have Benefited from it economically, politically. Um, and if we rest on our laurels, I am a strong believer and advocate that, uh, you lose in the long r…

AI assessment note: “the mission itself is actually, how do you unlock the world's best and brightest”

Answered raw tape D 4 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 3.85

Q Of course. Well, I'd love to dig in. Um, so you founded Lighthouse. How did you start your career and how did you end up founding a company?

A Oh my gosh. How far do you want to go back? I actually started my career in New York. Um, so I'm, I was born in Seoul and so immigrant story in some way, but I grew up mostly on the East coast and I have spent the bulk of my career supporting entrepreneurs. Um, I started my career in financial services, finding early stage technology companies for a really big financial services company to buy. And I knew nothing about tech. And startups, and it was like basically my first foray into learning about, um, like the industry, and this is 2015 in New York where, you know, there was like the heyday of Oscar Health and Datadog, um, Hinge was starting to become really popular, and so New York was an emerging, like, it is obviously a much more robust ecosystem today, uh, but there were a lot of, like, really cool companies that have become quite big, and it had made The tech industry, like really prominent in New York in a way that I don't think it had as much. Um, so I was kind of thrown into that world. I spent all of my like weekends going to meetups and like evenings showing up to events and just like wanting to meet early stage founders. And that is how I ended up, um, in venture actually. And so five years ago, I ended up moving to San Francisco from New York. We can talk about San Francisco versus New York if we want to. And I just felt like there was so much electricity in the c…

AI assessment note: “I started my career in financial services, finding early stage technology companies”

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