The “Differential” Equation: The Formula to Get Your Own Competitive Advantages Right

| How to Understand Your Competition and Attract Unique Opportunities | As a working professional, have you felt that you are in constant competition and find it incredibly difficult to defeat your competitors? When pondering your career, did you ever have the following insecurities? “My background and skillsets are too generic. They won’t hire me.” … Read more

Tech vs. Capital: The Inescapable Debate on Scalable Innovation

| Start-up in the Making (or Breaking) | What happens when innovation, one of human’s greatest gifts, runs into money problems? Start-up founders have wonderful visions and missions to build a “better future” through their envisaged product or service creation. They would work unwaveringly day-and-night to build their proprietary technologies. However, for their ideas to … Read more

The Road Not Taken: From Hong Kong to Mexico

| Why I Decided to Take a “Detour” in My Career | For those who are living in developed countries, have you ever imagined yourself working and living in an emerging market?  As a millennial who spent his life shuttling between Hong Kong and San Francisco, I certainly hadn’t. I want to share an unconventional but … Read more

From US Investment Bank to Chinese Unicorn: A Recap of My 10-Year Journey

| How I Progressed Through My Professional Career | It has been 10 years since I walked out of the Hearst Greek Theatre at Berkeley, California, where I received my Bachelor of Business Administration. As a young and driven college graduate, I envisioned a career path with endless opportunities and believed that a strong work … Read more