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In this episode, member at Earth Walker 7 discusses his 15-year career in investment banking and

private equity in Hong Kong. We cover his struggles trying to recruit in China after getting an

MBA in the U.S., his stint in banking,

and what he wishes he did, as well as one piece of key advice to his younger self. Enjoy.

All right, Earth Walker 7, thank you so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

I'd love to just start off with a quick little background.

If you could just give the listeners a little bit of a summary.

Happy to.

So I was working in real estate private equity in the U.S. in the early 2000s and felt that it was a little bit too frothy of a market and valuations didn't make much sense.

And in any case, I had already applied to business school, so I kind of knew where I was going to be going and thought that I would give China a try and pick up an extra language before business school and then

making a decision whether or not to come back.

So I moved to Shanghai, studied Mandarin, and then went to business school.

And then after business school, decided to turn down an offer to join a bulge bracket investment bank in London in order to come out to Asia and build a career out here.

And it's had it certainly had an adventure.

It's had its pros and cons and happy to try to provide a little bit

of insight on that. My career in Asia has spanned investment banking, which is where I started,

and then private equity, and then real estate private equity. And so I've had the opportunity

to spend a fair deal of time on the buy side, the better part of almost 15 years now.

Great. Thank you for that quick summary. So when you said you went to Shanghai before

business school, the idea was to kind of almost give it, test it out. Was that the thought?

And was that in banking, that specific first stint?

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