He recounted in a 2023 interview that he worked more than a dozen jobs before he turned 18 to make ends meet.

In 1999, shortly after graduating, he began his career at a company called Startpath, a traditional ad network.

[3] In early 2007, Ernst & Young named Ng as one of the finalists for their 2007 Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Greater Los Angeles area,[4] and one year later, the New York Times listed Oversee.net as one of the largest companies in the domain name trading space, along with Demand Media.

These included Simply Bridal, a wedding dress company, and KidGuard, a parental monitoring app for iOS and Android smartphones.

[9] Following KidGuard's launch, it became the subject of significant media attention and attracted both praise and controversy.