I'm your host Gary Nowak and I've got an extremely inspiration conversation for you today with my guest Albert Tseng who has built a very entrepreneurial career with impact investing, sustainable foods and social enterprise.
Career Background:
Co-Founder of Dao Foods
- Focusing on China's rising demand for meat and other protein food products with animal free alternatives
Founder of Moonspire Social Ventures
- Utlizing the power of business to address important global issues
COO and Strategic advisor at BlueDot Inc.
- Receiving epidemic intelligence of potential emerging infectious diseases
Program manager for the Clinton Foundation in South Africa
Attended
- University of Waterloo with a bachelor in engineering
- University of Toronto / Biomedical engineering masters
- Mid Career MPA at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government
Highlights
- A lot of Toronto Love
- Great first job, very entrepreneurial and insight into his career
- Heading over to mechanical engineering
- Albert Loves a process and Becoming an entrepreneur
- 3rd year university impactful life moment with a simple cut to his knee
- Contracting necrotizing fasciitis flesh-eating bacteria
- The impact of this on his career based
- 3 surgeries within a 6 day period
- Coming out of it unscathed
- 1995 was an extremely difficult year with family and friend loss
- Gathering all this to find purpose with his career
- Focusing on the health care industry and recognizing a big gap in information
- Applying his engineering to the healthcare system
- Having GREAT bosses along the way
- Harvard Kennedy School was perfect opportunity at the right time
- Impact Investing
- Listen to and verify your own instincts, you can always return to your old job
- The power of Informational interviews (hear this time and time again)
- What is your public narrative, your view of the world
- Cherry Picking from his mentors, very observational
- You don't always know what you're absorbing when you're going through your career
- Hitting singles and double not home runs with his career
- Getting visibility to your blind spots
- Focusing on the food chain to impact our environment
- The china focus to move forward on sustainable food options
- Mobilizing capital to entrepreneurs in china
- Helping others achieve their goals
- Aligning people with what they love to do
- Being the boss he has always admired
- Having your kids take advantage of you