With an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and a graduate degree in the same field from Cornell, Hong worked in several startups as an engineer, and then obtained an MBA from Berkeley while he continued working.
擁有加州大學柏克萊分校電機系、康乃爾大學電機所學歷，在多家初創公司擔任工程師，然後又半工半讀在柏克萊取得企管碩士。