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Mick Unplugged

Daniel Kang’s Path: From Scholarships to Fintech Innovation and Scalable Impact

Mick Unplugged

Mick Hunt

Business, Entrepreneurship, Education, Self-improvement

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Daniel Kang is the co-founder of Flobo, a fintech company focused on democratizing financial access for creators and entrepreneurs. With a compelling personal journey from a low-income immigrant family to a leader in the venture capital and fintech spaces, Daniel’s mission is rooted in making opportunities fairly accessible to all. He's also the author of The Super Upside Factor, which explores how individuals can apply venture capital’s asymmetric investing principles to accelerate personal and professional growth. Daniel is known for his innovative thinking, resilience, and commitment to leveraging technology and finance to create positive societal impact.

Takeaways:

  • Asymmetric Betting for Everyday Life: Daniel breaks down how venture capital's methods—betting big on outlier wins while managing risk—can be adapted by individuals to create outsized professional and personal results.
  • Start Small, Stay Consistent: Success comes from executing simple principles with unwavering consistency, rather than seeking shortcuts. Daniel’s own story—winning scholarships, writing a book, and building a fintech—emphasizes starting where you are and building up momentum daily.
  • Impact Over Mediocrity: Daniel’s drive stems from a fear of mediocrity and a strong desire to scale positive impact using technology, smart positioning, and persistent effort, rather than just working harder.

 Sound Bites:

"Budget for a 90% failure rate—success is about surviving long enough for luck to catch up."

"Every bet should be positioned for outsized, 100x outcomes—even if you only win 10% of the time, your wins will outpace the losses."

"Don’t fall into ‘intellectual obesity’—the real difference is made by executing a few simple principles, not by endlessly searching for shortcuts."

Quote by Mick: "Sometimes you just got to get started with what you’re doing and understand that it’s a journey. The truth of the matter is, in almost everything we do in life, it takes time."

  

Connect & Discover Daniel:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/itsdankang/

X: https://x.com/itsdankang?lang=en

Website: https://itsdankang.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsdankang

Book: The Super Upside Factor

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Book your cabin now for the 2025 Time Joyner Fantastic Voyage and party with a purpose to raise funds for HBCUs.

0:09.3

Sailing from New Orleans, October 19 through the 26, with live performances from Kat Williams, Neo, Mary, Mary, Tyrese, October London, a Southern Soul show, and more.

0:20.4

Call 214-495-1963.

0:23.6

That's 214-495-1963.

0:27.0

Tell them where to log on, Snoop.

0:28.5

FB 2025.com.

0:30.9

One of my biggest fears is living in mediocrity.

0:33.1

I would rather live on the edge of possibility trying to do what I think would be extraordinary

0:40.3

rather than be mediocre.

0:43.3

Welcome to Mick Unplugged, the number one podcast for self-improvement, leadership, and relentless growth.

0:52.3

No fluff, no filters, just heart-hitting truths, unstoppable strategies, and the mindset shifts

0:59.6

that separate the best from the rest.

1:02.4

Ready to break limits?

1:04.2

Let's go.

1:08.6

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another exciting episode of Mick Unplugged, and today we've got a banger for you.

1:14.5

Our guest is the co-founder of Flobo, a finance, I'm sorry, let me start that over.

1:22.1

He is the co-founder of Flobo, a fintech trailblazer reshaping how creators and entrepreneurs access capital, empowering the next generation to grow on their own terms.

1:32.7

From idea to execution, from hustle to scale.

1:36.9

He is the innovative, the driven, the game changing, my guy, Mr. Daniel Kaine.

1:41.7

Daniel, how are you doing today, brother?

1:43.1

I'm doing very well.

1:43.9

Thanks for having me in for that flattering introduction.

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