Yul Kwon has built a career in various fields including IT, law, policy, small and medium-sized businesses, and media. He has worked at Facebook (currently Chief Privacy Officer), Google, McKinsey, Venture Law Group, and Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis. He also operated several stores as the Northern California development manager for Red Mango. Additionally, he has experience working at various government agencies including the FCC's Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau, as an instructor at the FBI Academy, as a legal counsel for the US Senate, and as an appellate court law clerk. From 2011 to 2013, he served as host of the PBS series [America Revealed] and anchor of KCETLink's weekly news program LinkAsia.

He has experience as a documentary host for the Discovery Channel and Smithsonian Channel and served as a special correspondent for CNN. In 2006, he became the first Asian winner of CBS's reality show [Survivor]. Yul has been featured in VIBE Magazine's annual special issue [People with Power], People magazine's [Sexiest Man Alive], and Entrepreneur Magazine. He graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Symbolic Systems as Phi Beta Kappa and completed his graduate degree at Yale Law School while serving as an editor for the Yale Law Journal.