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Episode 334: Tech CEO Moves Company to an Avoided Neighborhood | Chi-Ming & Juliette Chien

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Episode 334: Tech CEO Moves Company to an Avoided Neighborhood | Chi-Ming & Juliette Chien

What happens when a successful tech company leaves San Francisco’s financial district for Bayview – a neighborhood most people avoid? Chi-Ming and Juliette Chien share their journey of building Dayspring Technologies on radical gospel principles, including refusing to use marketplace leverage, capping CEO pay at 3x the lowest employee, and maintaining only 3 months cash reserves. Learn how their partnership with Redeemer Community Church birthed RISE – a transformative high school serving first-generation college students – and discover what “prophetic emptiness” looks like in business.

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EPISODE NOTES

In this powerful episode of the Faith Driven Entrepreneur podcast, hosts Justin Forman and Kevin Kim sit down with Chi-Ming and Juliette Chien to explore their radical decision to relocate their successful tech company from San Francisco’s financial district to Bayview – a neighborhood where 25-30% of children live below the federal poverty line.

Chi-Ming shares how Dayspring Technologies embodies “bearing witness to God’s redeeming of the workplace, marketplace, and community” through unconventional business practices like refusing to use leverage in negotiations, maintaining only three months of cash reserves, and implementing a pay structure where CEO compensation is capped at 3x the lowest paid employee.

Juliette reveals how their partnership with Redeemer Community Church led to the founding of RISE, a Christian high school where 80% of seats are reserved for first-generation college students from low-income families, with a mission of 100% four-year university admission.

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction – Video podcasting debut

02:10 Kevin Kim’s history with faith and work movement

08:00 Dayspring video story begins

15:30 Moving from Financial District to Bayview

19:00 “This is a crazy idea, right?”

22:45 Chi-Ming’s sabbatical walks in the neighborhood

26:00 Why place matters for gospel witness

31:00 The unexpected unanimous “yes” to relocating

35:30 Client reactions: “The taxi driver said don’t come back”

39:00 Dayspring’s radical business practices

42:00 No leverage policy – following Jesus’ teachings

45:15 Three months cash reserves only

48:00 Isaiah 40 pay structure – mountains brought low

52:00 CEO pay capped at 3x lowest employee

56:00 The birth of RISE from “prophetic emptiness”

59:30 Juliette’s vision for educational transformation

63:00 80% seats for first-generation, low-income students

66:45 The power of love overcoming educational disparity

70:00 Three-year-old Jeremy and kingdom partnership

73:00 Final thoughts on church-business collaboration

Episode 223 – Marks on the Market: What’s Really Going On in Private Credit? | Kyle Brown

Episode 222 – How Much Is Enough? A Game Changing Question for Family Wealth | Kyle Kutz

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Episode 333: The Walmart Architect’s Secret to Kingdom Currency | Raymond Harris

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Episode 333: The Walmart Architect’s Secret to Kingdom Currency | Raymond Harris

Raymond Harris, distinguished architect and founder of one of the largest corporate architecture firms, shares his transformative journey from questioning his calling to discovering his true purpose as a Kingdom steward. After completing 8,000 projects for Walmart and building a multi-million dollar firm, Raymond reveals how he learned that architecture was simply the “economic engine” for Kingdom impact. In this powerful conversation with Justin Forman, Raymond discusses giving away his entire wedding gift with only $600 in the bank, the concept of “Kingdom currency,” and why traditional approaches to wealth and inheritance might be missing the mark. His vulnerability about brokenness, the danger of achievement addiction, and the importance of authentic humility offers profound insights for entrepreneurs at any stage.

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Chapters:

00:00 Introduction
01:48 From Legos to Architecture: Early Influences
03:16 The Bold Move: Asking for Partnership at 27
05:32 Starting a Firm Without Any Work
07:29 The Three Characteristics of Architectural Leadership
09:26 How a Rejected Project Led to 8,000 Walmart Projects
12:45 Distributing Profits: An Uncommon Approach
14:08 The Wedding Gift That Started It All
17:42 Compounding Kingdom Impact vs. Earthly Returns
19:57 Finding Your True Calling After 25 Years
23:11 IJM and the Power of Immediate Action
27:35 Donor-Advised Funds: Storage or Stewardship?
31:40 The Conduit Foundation Approach
35:29 Why Money Will Testify For or Against Us
39:02 Investing in Young People and “Best in Class”
42:19 The Danger of False Humility
46:11 Rethinking Inheritance: Give When They Need It Most
50:34 What is Kingdom Currency?
54:23 Advice to 27-Year-Olds: Learn to Abide Early

Episode 223 – Marks on the Market: What’s Really Going On in Private Credit? | Kyle Brown

Episode 222 – How Much Is Enough? A Game Changing Question for Family Wealth | Kyle Kutz

Episode 221 – Marks on the Market: The State of Faith-Based Investing | Tim Macready

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Episode 332: Building God-Glorifying VR Tech to Compete with Apple & Meta | Renji Bijoy

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Episode 332: Building God-Glorifying VR Tech to Compete with Apple & Meta | Renji Bijoy

In this powerful episode recorded at SXSW, host Justin Forman sits down with Renji Bijoy, founder and CEO of Immersed, the most-used application in the AR/VR space. Renji shares his journey from PhD student to tech entrepreneur, his mission to build faith-driven technology that brings people together rather than isolates them, and why he believes believers should be at the forefront of building the next generation of computing platforms.

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In this powerful episode recorded at SXSW, host Justin Forman sits down with Renji Bijoy, founder and CEO of Immersed, the most-used application in the AR/VR space. Renji shares his journey from PhD student to tech entrepreneur, his mission to build faith-driven technology that brings people together rather than isolates them, and why he believes believers should be at the forefront of building the next generation of computing platforms.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

How separating identity from company outcomes leads to better decision-making and freedom from emotional choices
Why Renji builds Immersed because he “hates remote work” – creating connection in a disconnected world
The transition from software to hardware and launching Visor – a revolutionary AR headset that’s 70% lighter than competitors
Competing with tech giants like Apple, Google, and Meta while being guided by faith
The importance of believers influencing culture through technology rather than being mere consumers
Balancing 80-hour work weeks with faithful stewardship and avoiding willfulness
How Immersed is positioned to impact humanoid robotics through human pose estimation data

Quotable Moments:

“If we do what I think the Lord calls us to do, which is to separate our identity from what our work is… actually it’s a lot more freeing.”
“I’m building Immersed because I hate remote work… I think that there is a more God-glorifying version of that that makes us all feel very connected.”
“I believe that if you have a world that the most common devices that we use, built by believers, I think that’s going to be a lot more of a optimistic, bright future.”

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