[2] Once Chen departed from Morgan Stanley, he worked as the head of digital strategy at the non-profit media company New Tang Dynasty Television.

[2] Chen cites his reason as being a practitioner of Falun Gong,[3] and he had wanted to promote awareness of human rights violations in China.

In addition, he also runs Beyond Science, a video series discussing strange phenomena,[2] as well as his personal channel, Mike Chen.

[4][12] Chen lived in New York while working with New Tang Dynasty Television, but after leaving in 2015, he moved to San Francisco, California.

[3] Chen is also an outspoken critic of the Chinese Communist Party, accusing them of various human rights violations such as the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre and the persecution of Uyghurs, Christians, and Falun Gong practitioners.

[14][15] Due to his views on the Chinese Communist Party, in 2021, comedian Nigel Ng deleted their video collaboration and apologized on Weibo for not realizing Chen's remarks about China.