Random and unfiltered thoughts over the last two weeks
Competitive rivalry A lot of professionals in the venture capital and mid-cap private equity space seem to be bad-mouthing each other. I...
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May 31
Perspectives... from an older friend
Had catch-up drinks with a much older (more than 12 years) friend that I hadn't seen in nearly two years. Our common experience of having...
May 15
Never stop learning
I have been teaching financial modelling for over 5 years now. But at the first ever class held in July 2018, the delivery was so badly...
Apr 15
For Gen Z, greed isn't always good
“They talk about work-life balance. That’s a term I didn’t even know when I was their age. Work-life balance. When I was their age, if...
Mar 5
Hong Kong needs a “Taylor Swift event"
I love Shenzhen. I like its wide city roads that are peppered with electric taxis. There are virtually so many electric cars on the...
Feb 4
What the whales own matter to the fishes
The study of capital markets has always been both intriguing and amusing to me. A lot of its theories are backed by mathematics and...
Jan 12
Cultural learnings
As I enter my third year of working for a Chinese company and living in China, it felt apt to reflect on and summarise a few takeaways...
Dec 11, 2023
Twelve rules of success
I am not usually fond of reading corporate marketing material but ended up flipping through the pages of a book I came across in the hotel..
Mar 26, 2023
The changing narrative on China
"Do you know how big is a billion? Just imagine every person tossing a coin at you at the same time." This was how one of my flatmates...
Dec 5, 2022
A new new normal
It has been a relatively productive two weeks in Singapore. Most of the conversations I have had ranged from my life in Hong Kong to...
Nov 20, 2022
Not what it was used to be
HKIA isn't what it used to be in the old days. No crowds. Only a handful of shops open. Lounges are dead. HKIA used to be a humdrum of...
Oct 23, 2022
"Uninvestable" is all about the perception of risk
“Soldiers all around the world behave in the same way once they put on their helmets and the uniform.”
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