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How I Built This with Guy Raz

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Is Your Dad a Doctor in China?

The author's mom was a doctor in China. She emigrated to the US, but no institution would recognize her credentials from China. So she worked as a waitress inside of her restaurant and at a hospice for 12 years before saving enough money to open up a medical clinic. "I'm one of maybe three kids now, right in Illinois, in my grade, that's Asian," he says.

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