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Victor Wong: Graduate School
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The family moved to the Chinese-American community in the Delta town of Courtland when Wong was 2. His father, Sare King Wong, had taken a job as principal and teacher of a school there that catered to the children of the Chinese-American farmers and laborers in the Delta.
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While in middle school, Victor dreamt of being a 20-year old working in Silicon Valley during the dot-com boom. Since then, he has co-founded one medical software startup and has recently assisted in the successful sale of another medical technology startup he was involved in. Victor serves as the Chief Executive Officer.
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Kerouac’s description of the duo’s verbal gymnastics in the woods of Big Sur was fairly accurate, according to Wong. At the time, Wong was a graduate student at the San Francisco Art Institute and a leading player in the city’s cresting beatnik movement, so it was no surprise that he had snared an invitation to the most famous literary party of its time. It was a feat—his ability to find cutting-edge art—that would mark the rest of his life and career. Four decades later, in the late evening of his life, he looked back at his Zelig-like ability to be in the right place at the right time.
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