He skipped four grades as a child, graduated college at the age of 18, and became the youngest CEO ever to raise venture capital. How did he do it? Brian Wong sums it up succinctly: He's Asian. He references the recent WSJ article by Amy Chua, "Why Chinese mothers are superior," by way of explanation as to how one should go about trying to create a child prodigy.
Canadian-born Wong actually started designing when he was eleven and was off like a rocket from there, skipping grades and graduating early, but he noted that his parents didn't want him to, fearing for his emotional and social health. But when I grilled him on what his parents did to make him the young phenomenon he became, he revealed that there is no patented, top secret recipe--just love and a solid home life.
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Author: Faith Merino
