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How to make Community your Competitive Advantage with Connie Chang, Director of Community at Wish
How to make Community your Competitive Advantage with Connie Chang, Director of Community at Wish
Welcome to the Get World Savvy Podcast. We talk about business and tech ecosystems and how international founders are…
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What value you can bring to global markets with Joyce Zhang, CEO of Alariss
What value you can bring to global markets with Joyce Zhang, CEO of Alariss
Welcome to the Get World Savvy Podcast. We talk about business and tech ecosystems and how international founders are…
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How to spot and join rocketship companies with Andre Charoo on Get World Savvy
How to spot and join rocketship companies with Andre Charoo on Get World Savvy
Welcome to the Get World Savvy Podcast. This is a business and tech podcast on business and tech ecosystems around the…
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How to Launch Products in Global Markets with Karthik Vaidyanath, Director of Product at Indeed Singapore, ex-CPO at GoJek, ex-CEO InstaLively India
How to Launch Products in Global Markets with Karthik Vaidyanath, Director of Product at Indeed Singapore, ex-CPO at GoJek, ex-CEO InstaLively India
Karthik Vaidyanath is the Director of Product at Indeed Singapore. Prior to Indeed, Karthik was the Chief Product…
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How Traditional Chinese Businesses reinvented themselves during COVID-19 and what we can learn from their successes
How Traditional Chinese Businesses reinvented themselves during COVID-19 and what we can learn from their successes
This content was originally Episode 12 in the Get World Savvy Podcast. I want to talk about something on everyone’s…
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Career Development: How to Grow in Your Career (in 4 different ways)
Career Development: How to Grow in Your Career (in 4 different ways)
Are you an ambitious, impact-hungry professional who doesn’t know where to go but you just know you want MORE out of…
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A Toast to my Singlehood and my fear of not having more time to be single
A Toast to my Singlehood and my fear of not having more time to be single
Over the last year, I got engaged, traveled the world for a year with my fiance, and came back from our travels to…
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How to Find Great Mentors: 7 Steps to get you the guidance you need
How to Find Great Mentors: 7 Steps to get you the guidance you need
If you want someone to invest in you or mentor you, give them a reason to believe in you. Here are 7 ways to get the…
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A Thorough Guide to growing your Network from crafting cold emails to Personal SEO
A Thorough Guide to growing your Network from crafting cold emails to Personal SEO
In 2016, I happened to write an (still relevant) article on the things I learned while job hunting in San Francisco as…
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China's 203 unicorns: how many do you know and what opportunities are there for you?
China's 203 unicorns: how many do you know and what opportunities are there for you?
When I first came to China, I was shocked by how little I knew about Chinese tech companies and consumer products. Even…
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The smartest students in the classroom are the ones who need the most help. Everyone knows by now that the one-size-fits-all model of schooling is…
The smartest students in the classroom are the ones who need the most help. Everyone knows by now that the one-size-fits-all model of schooling is…
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In the last 6 months, I ran over 3,500 ads across two ed-tech brands and halved our CPL. For months, I was pumping them out but we just weren't…
In the last 6 months, I ran over 3,500 ads across two ed-tech brands and halved our CPL. For months, I was pumping them out but we just weren't…
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Key takeaways from last Saturday's Cansbridge Scholars ACE (All Cohorts Event): 1. Success is 90% luck and 10% hard work, but you can't access that…
Key takeaways from last Saturday's Cansbridge Scholars ACE (All Cohorts Event): 1. Success is 90% luck and 10% hard work, but you can't access that…
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Education
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Smith School of Business at Queen's University
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First Class Honors and Academic All-Star Athlete Award
Queen's Varsity Figure Skating Team
President of the Queen's Figure Skating Club
Commerce Society Academics Commissioner
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Honors & Awards
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Academic All Star - Varsity Figure Skating Athlete
Queen's University
This award pays tribute to the academic excellence of student-athletes who have earned a 3.5 GPA or greater while competing in a Varsity Sport
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Algonquin Youth Entrepreneurship Award
Algonquin
For successes and community contributions of Children for One Another
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Jean M. Coon Humanitarian Community Service Award
Zonta International
The Jean M. Coon Humanitarian Community Service Award is awarded to a young woman in her final year of high school for outstanding community service and humanitarianism in word and deed.
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SAT
Score: 98th Percentile
Languages
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English
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Chinese
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French
Limited working proficiency
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Day 1 of 10 building in Lisbon: Most LinkedIn Entrepreneurs are leaving half their audience on the table. You're already doing the hard part -…
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We’re giving away $100k to help teens build their ideas. At Prequel, we’ve seen our students go from "just an idea" to launching real ventures and…
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