good afternoon
hi well it’s kind of bright right here
so can I still can’t remember my very
first day at the Lincoln that was about
20 years ago I was asking you as
transfer students from a Chinese local
school it was very hard for me because I
don’t speak English when I got here I
remember my teacher was saying something
to me I had absolutely no idea what she
was saying and what’s hard
I remember going home and telling my mom
like I never want to come back to the
school but my parent try to convince me
they told me the reason they sent me
here they wanted me to learn English
they want me to have this tool that I
can nationally get connected with the
world see the world’s at the front ankle
to be connected it was this whole new
world I’d never had a chance to do so
therefore I stick a rung I stick around
for another four years and I went on to
finish my college and high school
education exam Cisco California while I
was in school I actually started working
in the bank so when I graduated
naturally I just got another job they
gave me a huge promotion was a huge a
race so I sticker on I was asked you
living the American dream I guess
climbing that copper letter however I
remember there was one morning I woke up
sort of early so I got into my office a
bit earlier I had my Starbucks coffee on
my hand I walk into my office I set on
my table I look at my business card
stays banking center manager will this
do blah blah blah well it sounds kind of
cool but I know there’s some part of me
is still missing and I had no idea what
that is but I feel like I want to try
something new working in the bank is
definitely not a hole not my career path
and then I got a phone call I actually
found my dad three months later he asked
me if I would like to move back to
Taiwan and work with him he said he had
a project I made to do and I will be in
charge of it I was thrilled I was very
exciting therefore I forgot to negotiate
a my salary before I came back
so I went back three months passed by my
project actually got cancelled and then
I started entering my retirement life I
go into the office I sit on my table and
I literally had nothing to do so I think
I did it unthinkable actually I opened a
bar with my friend who I met 20 years
ago in Dominican and my parents are
extremely angry about this but I did it
and we were pretty successful after this
bar as she went on track I open in my
own property management company well and
what I did actually was I have I’m
managing a servo owners properties and I
put in on market for sale or for rent
and we have commercial buildings and we
also have residential however
residential buildings has never make
enough rental property the rental income
for my investors therefore I brought out
a proposal for them I want to create an
Airbnb apartments they thought it was a
pretty cool idea so then let me try it
this was my first Airbnb apartments I
put a weird British Street view on the
back with that famous red foam boost I
remember I think I put a lunch on Airbnb
four years ago on June 2nd by June night
my entire summer was sold out this is so
good that my investor actually gave me
more money right away tell me to open
more Balian three months after I already
had nine apartments in Taipei however at
that time we actually got a new mayor in
town and he had actually very strict
about a era of EMV policy in Taipei I
actually had it forces to shut it all
done
and I asked you to loose $600,000 just
on the property just I’m fine itself I
said remember I walk in I was terrified
when I walk into my accident interview
with my investors I really saw that they
kind of yelling at me they’re gonna be
mad at me instead of doing that they
actually tell me Willis we’re believing
what you have been doing and we want you
to find another place to do a hotel a
real one Ali go on therefore I started
my searching I know for I learned from
my air
experiences I needed a legal spot with a
very unique spot so I start searching I
cook I started from Taipei I went to
Thai Joe I went to a gaucho I went to
ken thing I went to Iran I went all over
to Taiwan and I finally found my spot
tada
this is what I found I know it looks
kind of old it’s okay
it was actually a 60 years old building
you used to belong the Pearl departments
in Hawaiian city it was their office and
their doorman and the back of this
building actually there is a this is a
storage room belong to the food
department so what the story behind this
building is actually the transportation
they want and so poor they had to ship
everything by boat therefore whenever
they ship something in they stored it
here and then disputed to the
residential residents around the area
and I started I started working on this
project I keep there outside and I
changed it in cycling up the inside
that’s why it looks like right now
at the back of the the food storage area
I actually made it to our cafe area /
gallery will also play life music there
every Saturday night and I want to make
sure all my ribs looks cool and unique
therefore I hire 12 different artists
from Taiwan to put out there are what
inside I rinse lease are also Oh Han
pending hand pendings the artists and
the left hand side with the elephant
they actually stayed in that room for a
month before they came out and a right
hand side that’s one of the most popular
in our hotel is a double Rin she was
actually entero designer from Los
Angeles just because she receives his
project so she flew all the way back and
then take the trend to harden for three
months and finished that and we also got
some work fun of your Aboriginal in
Taiwan they actually these bamboos look
like lights actually not made by bamboo
they are actually some kind of grass
growth in their village and they’re
using a very tradition technique to
actually soak this lights together all
these lights are handmade
I have about 20 of them in my hotels and
they are absolutely beautiful after when
I finished this project I need to go
through my
artist Critias my life which is my wife
I asked her what did she think she told
me is good she asked me funny like my
projects I was actually very exciting I
actually put it up like on Airbnb just
like I had done that before I was ready
to hear my phone rings I’m ready to get
my get my money in the bank
I guess however there’s nothing happen I
start wondering why is that because my
photo is not pretty enough is that
because my price went too high there
isn’t it’s just because it’s lack of
international visibility of Taiwan
people don’t know who we are they don’t
want to search into us but why we’re
gonna solve that problem today right
some people might be blending we having
a weird relationship with Chinese
government that’s why I would never be
able to see in an international stage
some people might be blending our
education saying not a lot of people are
able to speak fluent English I got
within able to but I actually have other
thoughts I remember when I first signed
a top on the taxi Guardian I asked the
taxi driver can you take me to the
downtown and I would like to guess on
local food which you have give me some
kind of recommendations the taxi drivers
very cool he told me you know what we
got McDonald’s and Starbucks here I know
I was laughing at the same time trust me
I was but I realized I was doing the
same thing just like the taxi driver was
doing every time my friend visit them in
Taipei what did I do
I took them to a fancy Japanese
restaurant or Italian restaurant and
then I’m gonna take them to some
nightclubs and around Taipei 101 just
like that and maybe we’ll go to cash bar
for some more karaoke all my friends
have a great time cleaning Taipei or in
Taiwan but they never took anything away
with it because all they are doing here
with me are exactly something they can
do in their own country
where they came from probably even
better in our governments hmm
interesting
these three are all culture created in
the parks in Taiwan two of them are in
Taipei
one in Hualien and I believe there is
another one in Gaucho
they all have one thing in common I
didn’t and they all look old they all
got fancy European furniture in there
why are we doing that do you think
Europeans who appreciate it when they
come in and see their own furniture
laying around in our culture creative
parks I don’t think so
that’s why I started I started to think
why how we gonna how are we gonna solve
this problem I think we at first we need
to draw interests on what we have this
is actually a hunter school this guys
came from Hong Kong he was a blogger he
was here a month ago arc our group
actually took into hunter class though
this hunter class yes you got to go in
the morning you’re gonna use to learn
how to use the bow that was actually
handmade by our Aboriginal and then you
got an you’re gonna try to set our
tracks honest on the forest so he can
catch some animals by Leonore lessons I
think that was a one week lessons if you
finished it and then graduated from it
you get to bring a knife walking to the
forest and survive try to survive for
one night I started I was exciting it’s
much better than eating with a dose and
we let’s talk about food well we talked
about McDonald’s and Starbucks earlier
Aboriginal actually have an old saying
they say they never have to store any
food I say why because they believe
ocean is their refrigerators mountains
are their supermarkets so whenever they
are hungry you know where they going and
so all these food I asked to be fresh
made and then they just brought it onto
your tables and make sure you eat all
the organic food as well you never have
to worry about that these two are the
people of new friends I am being mad and
war in the past past year the left-hand
side he’s then just yosef taiwan
taiwanese people actually got a lot of
talent but we our media or our self
never pay any attention to them he’s a
ninja Yosef he asked you he’s pending
was actually on the cover page of London
art exhibition few years ago and I’m
sure none of us knowing know that in
this room
the lady’s standing right next to him is
some agent I have heard her voice I was
very lucky to her hear her voice and
life once I remember sending standing
just on a corner and she started she
opened her mouth she’s such a small lady
to her Moyes is just amazing I remember
having goose bond my hands and I’d I
don’t even understand what she was
seeing
but because because she’s seeing with
her native language but I know that
touches my heart in later on she told me
she Ashley had all been recorded
actually you got nominated by Grammys
and I went out YouTube and I try to
search for I realized her Alba now she
has 600 clicks and that’s how little
that is and I really felt they should be
SVR focus on what we do and then we
should be able to show them to a lot of
people I think paying 1/10 paying
attention to what surrounded us is
extremely important when we want to
promote it ourselves a lot of things
happening around us right now probably
something that we got used to it may be
7-eleven in a corner Starbucks in this
right hand side but all these things is
just small details and then there could
be very different from any other people
came from a different place social media
are basically ruling their world I
believe Facebook YouTube Instagram to
eat Twitter’s we are able to search
anything we want on there
so therefore when people looking for new
experience looking for fun things to do
or cool things to do they want to
experience in real time they want to
experience with their own they don’t
want to just look in the pictures or
just listening somebody telling their
stories what I’m being doing lately is I
start throwing live concert with local
artists I work with local artists to put
out the street fair make sure they have
a stage to show where they at work this
might be my end of my speech by hope is
a new beginning to remind everybody in
their in today that we should be proud
of our own culture proud proud of what
we have embrace what we did what we do
local yes they
yet international thank you very much
recording
[Applause]
hi well it’s kind of bright right here
so can I still can’t remember my very
first day at the Lincoln that was about
20 years ago I was asking you as
transfer students from a Chinese local
school it was very hard for me because I
don’t speak English when I got here I
remember my teacher was saying something
to me I had absolutely no idea what she
was saying and what’s hard
I remember going home and telling my mom
like I never want to come back to the
school but my parent try to convince me
they told me the reason they sent me
here they wanted me to learn English
they want me to have this tool that I
can nationally get connected with the
world see the world’s at the front ankle
to be connected it was this whole new
world I’d never had a chance to do so
therefore I stick a rung I stick around
for another four years and I went on to
finish my college and high school
education exam Cisco California while I
was in school I actually started working
in the bank so when I graduated
naturally I just got another job they
gave me a huge promotion was a huge a
race so I sticker on I was asked you
living the American dream I guess
climbing that copper letter however I
remember there was one morning I woke up
sort of early so I got into my office a
bit earlier I had my Starbucks coffee on
my hand I walk into my office I set on
my table I look at my business card
stays banking center manager will this
do blah blah blah well it sounds kind of
cool but I know there’s some part of me
is still missing and I had no idea what
that is but I feel like I want to try
something new working in the bank is
definitely not a hole not my career path
and then I got a phone call I actually
found my dad three months later he asked
me if I would like to move back to
Taiwan and work with him he said he had
a project I made to do and I will be in
charge of it I was thrilled I was very
exciting therefore I forgot to negotiate
a my salary before I came back
so I went back three months passed by my
project actually got cancelled and then
I started entering my retirement life I
go into the office I sit on my table and
I literally had nothing to do so I think
I did it unthinkable actually I opened a
bar with my friend who I met 20 years
ago in Dominican and my parents are
extremely angry about this but I did it
and we were pretty successful after this
bar as she went on track I open in my
own property management company well and
what I did actually was I have I’m
managing a servo owners properties and I
put in on market for sale or for rent
and we have commercial buildings and we
also have residential however
residential buildings has never make
enough rental property the rental income
for my investors therefore I brought out
a proposal for them I want to create an
Airbnb apartments they thought it was a
pretty cool idea so then let me try it
this was my first Airbnb apartments I
put a weird British Street view on the
back with that famous red foam boost I
remember I think I put a lunch on Airbnb
four years ago on June 2nd by June night
my entire summer was sold out this is so
good that my investor actually gave me
more money right away tell me to open
more Balian three months after I already
had nine apartments in Taipei however at
that time we actually got a new mayor in
town and he had actually very strict
about a era of EMV policy in Taipei I
actually had it forces to shut it all
done
and I asked you to loose $600,000 just
on the property just I’m fine itself I
said remember I walk in I was terrified
when I walk into my accident interview
with my investors I really saw that they
kind of yelling at me they’re gonna be
mad at me instead of doing that they
actually tell me Willis we’re believing
what you have been doing and we want you
to find another place to do a hotel a
real one Ali go on therefore I started
my searching I know for I learned from
my air
experiences I needed a legal spot with a
very unique spot so I start searching I
cook I started from Taipei I went to
Thai Joe I went to a gaucho I went to
ken thing I went to Iran I went all over
to Taiwan and I finally found my spot
tada
this is what I found I know it looks
kind of old it’s okay
it was actually a 60 years old building
you used to belong the Pearl departments
in Hawaiian city it was their office and
their doorman and the back of this
building actually there is a this is a
storage room belong to the food
department so what the story behind this
building is actually the transportation
they want and so poor they had to ship
everything by boat therefore whenever
they ship something in they stored it
here and then disputed to the
residential residents around the area
and I started I started working on this
project I keep there outside and I
changed it in cycling up the inside
that’s why it looks like right now
at the back of the the food storage area
I actually made it to our cafe area /
gallery will also play life music there
every Saturday night and I want to make
sure all my ribs looks cool and unique
therefore I hire 12 different artists
from Taiwan to put out there are what
inside I rinse lease are also Oh Han
pending hand pendings the artists and
the left hand side with the elephant
they actually stayed in that room for a
month before they came out and a right
hand side that’s one of the most popular
in our hotel is a double Rin she was
actually entero designer from Los
Angeles just because she receives his
project so she flew all the way back and
then take the trend to harden for three
months and finished that and we also got
some work fun of your Aboriginal in
Taiwan they actually these bamboos look
like lights actually not made by bamboo
they are actually some kind of grass
growth in their village and they’re
using a very tradition technique to
actually soak this lights together all
these lights are handmade
I have about 20 of them in my hotels and
they are absolutely beautiful after when
I finished this project I need to go
through my
artist Critias my life which is my wife
I asked her what did she think she told
me is good she asked me funny like my
projects I was actually very exciting I
actually put it up like on Airbnb just
like I had done that before I was ready
to hear my phone rings I’m ready to get
my get my money in the bank
I guess however there’s nothing happen I
start wondering why is that because my
photo is not pretty enough is that
because my price went too high there
isn’t it’s just because it’s lack of
international visibility of Taiwan
people don’t know who we are they don’t
want to search into us but why we’re
gonna solve that problem today right
some people might be blending we having
a weird relationship with Chinese
government that’s why I would never be
able to see in an international stage
some people might be blending our
education saying not a lot of people are
able to speak fluent English I got
within able to but I actually have other
thoughts I remember when I first signed
a top on the taxi Guardian I asked the
taxi driver can you take me to the
downtown and I would like to guess on
local food which you have give me some
kind of recommendations the taxi drivers
very cool he told me you know what we
got McDonald’s and Starbucks here I know
I was laughing at the same time trust me
I was but I realized I was doing the
same thing just like the taxi driver was
doing every time my friend visit them in
Taipei what did I do
I took them to a fancy Japanese
restaurant or Italian restaurant and
then I’m gonna take them to some
nightclubs and around Taipei 101 just
like that and maybe we’ll go to cash bar
for some more karaoke all my friends
have a great time cleaning Taipei or in
Taiwan but they never took anything away
with it because all they are doing here
with me are exactly something they can
do in their own country
where they came from probably even
better in our governments hmm
interesting
these three are all culture created in
the parks in Taiwan two of them are in
Taipei
one in Hualien and I believe there is
another one in Gaucho
they all have one thing in common I
didn’t and they all look old they all
got fancy European furniture in there
why are we doing that do you think
Europeans who appreciate it when they
come in and see their own furniture
laying around in our culture creative
parks I don’t think so
that’s why I started I started to think
why how we gonna how are we gonna solve
this problem I think we at first we need
to draw interests on what we have this
is actually a hunter school this guys
came from Hong Kong he was a blogger he
was here a month ago arc our group
actually took into hunter class though
this hunter class yes you got to go in
the morning you’re gonna use to learn
how to use the bow that was actually
handmade by our Aboriginal and then you
got an you’re gonna try to set our
tracks honest on the forest so he can
catch some animals by Leonore lessons I
think that was a one week lessons if you
finished it and then graduated from it
you get to bring a knife walking to the
forest and survive try to survive for
one night I started I was exciting it’s
much better than eating with a dose and
we let’s talk about food well we talked
about McDonald’s and Starbucks earlier
Aboriginal actually have an old saying
they say they never have to store any
food I say why because they believe
ocean is their refrigerators mountains
are their supermarkets so whenever they
are hungry you know where they going and
so all these food I asked to be fresh
made and then they just brought it onto
your tables and make sure you eat all
the organic food as well you never have
to worry about that these two are the
people of new friends I am being mad and
war in the past past year the left-hand
side he’s then just yosef taiwan
taiwanese people actually got a lot of
talent but we our media or our self
never pay any attention to them he’s a
ninja Yosef he asked you he’s pending
was actually on the cover page of London
art exhibition few years ago and I’m
sure none of us knowing know that in
this room
the lady’s standing right next to him is
some agent I have heard her voice I was
very lucky to her hear her voice and
life once I remember sending standing
just on a corner and she started she
opened her mouth she’s such a small lady
to her Moyes is just amazing I remember
having goose bond my hands and I’d I
don’t even understand what she was
seeing
but because because she’s seeing with
her native language but I know that
touches my heart in later on she told me
she Ashley had all been recorded
actually you got nominated by Grammys
and I went out YouTube and I try to
search for I realized her Alba now she
has 600 clicks and that’s how little
that is and I really felt they should be
SVR focus on what we do and then we
should be able to show them to a lot of
people I think paying 1/10 paying
attention to what surrounded us is
extremely important when we want to
promote it ourselves a lot of things
happening around us right now probably
something that we got used to it may be
7-eleven in a corner Starbucks in this
right hand side but all these things is
just small details and then there could
be very different from any other people
came from a different place social media
are basically ruling their world I
believe Facebook YouTube Instagram to
eat Twitter’s we are able to search
anything we want on there
so therefore when people looking for new
experience looking for fun things to do
or cool things to do they want to
experience in real time they want to
experience with their own they don’t
want to just look in the pictures or
just listening somebody telling their
stories what I’m being doing lately is I
start throwing live concert with local
artists I work with local artists to put
out the street fair make sure they have
a stage to show where they at work this
might be my end of my speech by hope is
a new beginning to remind everybody in
their in today that we should be proud
of our own culture proud proud of what
we have embrace what we did what we do
local yes they
yet international thank you very much
recording
[Applause]
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