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Startup Founder & Engineering Thought Leader Kevin Henrikson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinhenrikson) joins Brandon Na (https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonna) & Startup Wins (https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-wins). Kevin shares his impressive experience co-founding the startup that eventually became Outlook; Scaled Engineering Teams at Microsoft and Instacart as large as 2000+ engineers & gives some of the most amazing actionable advice on building unicorns.

Brandon is Managing General Partner of Good People Ventures (https://www.linkedin.com/company/good-peoples-ventures). His mother's dream was to have a broadcasting giant in her household . So, Brandon started by being the anchor/host of a evening drive time radio show in Busan, South Korea (the LA of South Korea). After moving back to the states to potentially take over the family business, he instead creates the #1 Seattle SEO Agency for the past 15 years. While building it, he is given a slot in an Internet Radio network called Toginet for free in exchange for his SEO prowess. His show interviews Neil Patel, John Chow & other well known figures in the online marketing space, but the network changes ownership & he misses his sons and ends up moving back to Asia where he restarts his life in Education. After spending 5+ years teaching/mentoring/advising some of the top Chinese, Korean and Indian students in Seoul, Shanghai & Hong Kong, he comes back to Seattle & the US to Launch SSAT Master & continue this craft of helping some of the best students get into the best boarding school & private school programs (like Stanford Online HS) & fine tune their personal statements so they can obtain entrances into Columbia, Carnegie Mellon & UCLA. He launches EduK8 where he interviews top VCs like Minnie Ingersoll (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mingersoll) or AI leaders like James Brady (https://www.linkedin.com/in/goodgravy). He pauses the show to help his son try and win the biggest Kpop survival competition in history "Boys Planet", but narrowly loses due to some preset decisions around the 9 finalists who become the next BTS. His son (https://kpop.fandom.com/wiki/Kamden) debuts regardless due to his popularity on the show & completes an 19 city US tour in early 2025 (https://kpopconcerts.com/k-pop-news/tour-ampersone-to-kick-off-2025-ampersone-live-tour-my-first_-in-north-america/). After helping his other twin finish of his Computer Science degree at the U of California, Irvine, Brandon decides to take a year exploring in the Red Rock canyons of Las Vegas. During his time reflec

Hosted by Brandon Na, Managing General Partner of Good Peoples Ventures

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