What’s Your Story: Desney Tan
DESNEY TAN: Born and raised in Singapore. Dad was an architect. Mom did everything, um, to run the family. When I turned 13, Mom and Dad came to me and they said, “Hey, would you like to try something new?” I said sure. You know, I had no idea what they, they were thinking. Two weeks later, they sent me to the US to study. Um, looking back, sometimes I flippantly claim I was just eating too much at home and so they had to send me away. [LAUGHTER] But actually, it was, you know, I think it was prescient on their part. They sort of looked at my path. They looked at the education system. They looked at the way I learned and the way I created and