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In 2014, after graduating from Harvard, I moved to Hong Kong, where I lived for three years, working in real estate private equity. I survived typhoons, ate too many dumplings, enjoyed many, many cheap foot massages, and practiced my Mandarin.

I attempted to learn Cantonese from my co-workers, but they refused to teach me, saying it would worsen my Mandarin (which I needed for work). They were right –  I developed a bad case of Mando-nese…

The limited Cantonese I took away from my time there was taxi lingo (turn left, turn right, stop here) and “I love chocolate milk” thanks to my 10 year-old neighbor down the hall. I don’t even like chocolate milk.

I traveled to many interesting places for work – board meetings in Vietnam; cattle stations in Australia; solar farms and office buildings in Japan; fundraising in Singapore; land parcels in Taiwan.

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