Mike Lee is the co-founder and former CEO of MyFitnessPal, the world’s leading nutrition and fitness tracking app that helped millions of people transform their health. Mike grew up in upstate New York, studied economics at Princeton while playing Division I volleyball, and started his career in consulting before making the leap into Silicon Valley during the dot-com boom. After stints at startups and tech companies like Beyond.com and Handspring, Mike set out on his entrepreneurial journey, eventually building MyFitnessPal alongside his brother Albert. What started as a simple tool to help him get in shape for his wedding became a global phenomenon at one point used by over 200 million users, eventually acquired by Under Armour for $475 million.

In our conversation, Mike opens up about his unconventional path—from nearly going to medical school, to teaching himself to code again after years away, to bootstrapping MyFitnessPal with just four employees and no outside funding for eight years. He shares what it was like to work side by side with his brother, the challenges of scaling to 30 million users while running lean, and the surprising lessons from resisting VC money until 2013. We also talk about the decision to sell to Under Armour, his experiences navigating corporate life as an Asian American executive, and the deep fulfillment of hearing from users whose lives were changed by the app. This episode is a candid look at the grit, adaptability, and authenticity that powered Mike’s journey—plus what he’s learned about leadership, purpose, and staying true to yourself along the way.

Jane Wu — visionary director, martial arts enthusiast, and one of the creative forces behind the Emmy Award winning animated series Blue Eye Samurai from Netflix. Her credits read like a greatest hits of blockbuster movies: Guardians of the Galaxy, The Avengers, Thor: Ragnarok, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Mulan and more. She was the one responsible for choreographing the iconic Battle of New York final showdown scene in The Avengers. She also worked on some of my favorite television series like Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead. For two decades, she’s been the unsung architect behind some of the most memorable action sequences in film and animation — and now she’s stepped into the spotlight as a director bringing fierce, emotional storytelling to the screen.

In our conversation, Jane opens up about her journey from Taiwan to the San Gabriel Valley, growing up between cultures, and how that dual identity became her creative superpower. We talk about fighting for authenticity in Hollywood — from catching cultural missteps in Mulan to insisting that shoes come off inside a house in Blue Eye Samurai. She shares the moment she found her storytelling voice, why teaching is her secret superpower, and what it means to carry the torch for Asian American representation. We also dive into how she built resilience in a male-dominated industry, the role parents play in supporting creative dreams, and why her career was less a master plan and more a step-by-step stumble into greatness.

This is a conversation about craft, courage, and carving out a place where your voice can finally be heard — and Jane’s story will inspire anyone who’s ever been told to keep their head down and stay quiet. I can’t wait for you to hear our conversation.

Albert Cheng is one of the most powerful people in Hollywood. Albert runs Prime Video US & Global for Amazon and is responsible for critically acclaimed hit shows such as Fallout, Rings of Power, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and The Boys among others. Albert has made it in an industry where there are few Asian American executives in power, by rising through the ranks at Disney/ABC for close to 15 years.

Albert went from growing up in the sunshine of Honolulu, Hawaii to the freezing cold winters of Cambridge, Massachusetts when he attended MIT. He would go on to become an engineer at Boeing, but his heart was always in entertainment. He quit Boeing to join BCG and attended Harvard Business School where he co-led the Entertainment and Media Club with Hulu founder Jason Kilar.

After HBS, he returned to Los Angeles where his heart was and rejoined BCG before working at Fox. Ultimately, he would spend the next decade and a half at The Walt Disney Company leading the charge to modernize and digitize content and figure out how to monetize it. He was the perfect person for the COO job at Amazon Studios and now he's running all of Prime Video in the United States.

As one of the most prominent Asian American executives in Hollywood, Albert is also paving the way for representation both in front of and behind the camera.