Jason Wong: Entrepreneur Mindset, Startup Lessons & Leaving a Successful Business to Start Over
The Proven Entrepreneur
Don Williams
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🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Jason Wong shares a rare, honest founder journey story about what happens when success no longer feels aligned. In this episode of the Entrepreneur Podcast, Jason explains why he chose leaving a successful business to start over — and how that decision reshaped his career, mindset, and definition of success.
This conversation explores entrepreneur mindset through lived experience, not theory. Jason breaks down real startup lessons from running multiple brands, transitioning from brand owner to manufacturer, and building a modern manufacturing business that scaled faster than anything he had done before. He also shares candid insights on business decision making, including the most expensive hiring mistakes in business and why hiring A players in a startup is non-negotiable for long-term growth.
Listeners will hear how entrepreneurs think differently about risk, why scaling a business requires clarity more than hustle, and how leadership mindset evolves over time. Jason reflects on redefining success beyond revenue, protecting work-life balance for entrepreneurs, and building a company that supports both ambition and personal fulfillment.
If you’re a founder, CEO, coach, or leadership team member looking for business success stories rooted in reality, this entrepreneur mindset podcast episode offers perspective you can apply immediately — especially if you’re facing uncertainty or considering your next move.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you an entrepreneur looking for more free time, more money, or just looking for that success blueprint? |
| 0:11.6 | The proven entrepreneur is the podcast for you. |
| 0:14.6 | Host Don Williams and his guests share real success stories from proven entrepreneurs. |
| 0:19.7 | Here's your host, Don Williams. |
| 0:28.6 | Hey, Don Williams here with today's episode of the Proven Entrepreneur Show. |
| 0:34.4 | What a treat. |
| 0:35.8 | I have Jason Wong from Packing Duck in the House. Jason, welcome to the show. |
| 0:43.0 | Thank you for having me. I'm excited. Yeah, I'm thrilled to have you. So before we get into questions, |
| 0:49.9 | tell us a little bit about who you are, what you do, who you serve, why you do it, all that kind of stuff. |
| 0:58.1 | Man, my name is Jason. I'm from Hong Kong and I came to America when I was eight years old. And currently, I run a manufacturing business, a custom packaging manufacturing business. And I service a ton of brands that some might you know, some you might not know. |
| 1:12.9 | We work with brands like Quest bars, Vita Coco, you know, more household names. And then we also work |
| 1:17.6 | of a lot of consumer brands and beauty, supplements, apparel. We do a lot of categories here. |
| 1:23.1 | That's, that's amazing. So you wouldn't know this, but I spent 26 days in mainland China right before COVID. |
| 1:30.5 | My gosh. |
| 1:31.4 | And so like the fourth quarter of that year, you know, flew into Hong Kong, spent a couple days in Hong Kong. |
| 1:37.2 | But 26 days on the mainland, man, hey, if you're listening to the podcast and you haven't been to China, go to China. |
| 1:45.3 | It is absolutely unbelievably amazing. I thought 26 days I would see the whole country. It's not enough. |
| 1:53.7 | Huge. You can spend 26 months and not see everything in China. But absolutely amazing experience. |
| 2:03.2 | Okay. |
| 2:03.6 | So first question. |
| 2:04.9 | What's a decision in your career that you made that looked completely wrong at the time you made? |
| 2:15.0 | But it ended up changing the trajectory of your business for the good. |
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