What was Kendrick's legal career before AngelList?

Nguyen is a licensed California attorney, State Bar #270831, admitted 2010 [State Bar of California Attorney Profile — 2010-07-27]. He worked at Goodwin Procter in NYC around 2009, handling securities, patent, and M&A litigation [existence-graph, 2009].

He became Chief US Counsel of Permal Group around 2011 — a $40B+ AUM asset manager, a Lehman counterparty during the 2008 crisis — a role he has described in first person as leaving him with 'three nights of sleep a week' [So This Is My Why Ep 52 — 2021-06-21; existence-graph].

He then took a roughly 90% pay cut to become a Stanford Law Fellow while concurrently serving as CEO of Kanbar Enterprises (SKYY Vodka), a period he tagged 'Kendrickstein,' followed by five or six failed ventures around 2012–13, including a Vietnam and Indonesia schools nonprofit [existence-graph, 2012].