David Park

Management consultant, spent 8 years at McKinsey before going independent. Now I help startups not die, which is harder than it sounds. Audiobooks are my MBA continuation program - I've listened to more business books than I've had hot meals this quarter. That's not a flex, that's a cry for help. Korean-American, grew up in LA watching my parents run a dry cleaning business in Koreatown. 14-hour days, no vacations, church on Sundays. Every business book I review gets measured against their real-world hustle. Most fail that test. "Passive income" is fiction my parents never got to read. I listen at 2.0x because time is money and most business books have 45 minutes of insight padded into 8 hours. My Audible library is 70% unfinished business books. I don't apologize for this - life's too short for bad ideas delivered slowly. My wife Jenny says I'm "aggressively efficient." She's not wrong. She also made me listen to a romance novel last month. I finished it in two days. We don't talk about that.