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SoftBank Vision Funds 2023 Activity and Portfolio Positioning Deep Dive | Earnings Takeaways, Key Trends and Thought Bubbles
SoftBank Vision Funds 2023 Activity and Portfolio Positioning Deep Dive | Earnings Takeaways, Key Trends and Thought Bubbles
In this post, I compile and analyze key trends regarding SoftBank Vision Funds' dealmaking and exit activity as well as…
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“Personal branding” doesn’t have to be a dirty phrase. Some of the most talented people I know - those deep in product, engineering, design - steer…
“Personal branding” doesn’t have to be a dirty phrase. Some of the most talented people I know - those deep in product, engineering, design - steer…
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Who will lead M&A recovery? PE-led activity, which lagged corporate-led M&A and held back broad recovery, has now bounced back but are likely to face…
Who will lead M&A recovery? PE-led activity, which lagged corporate-led M&A and held back broad recovery, has now bounced back but are likely to face…
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Great series! Thanks for letting me participate Kaidi Gao Rudy Yang!
Great series! Thanks for letting me participate Kaidi Gao Rudy Yang!
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Experience & Education
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Volunteer Experience
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Student Volunteer
Injaz Arabic Language Exchange Program
- 4 months
Taught English to illiterate Sudanese refugees every week.
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Student Volunteer
Dardasha Arabic Language Exchange Program
- 5 months
Planned and delivered lessons on conversational English and American culture and customs to Iraqi refugees every week.
Honors & Awards
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Full Scholarship Recipient
Qatar University
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Graduation with Distinction from Duke University
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Completed honor thesis "Listening for Revolution, Sharing for Uprising: Media's role in the national revolts in 1979 Iran and 2010 Tunisia," and presented it at the Senior Thesis Symposium at the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES) Center at Duke University
Test Scores
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Test of Proficiency in Korea (TOPIK 1)
Score: 194/200
Obtained a perfect score on listening, and scored 94 out of 100 on reading.
Languages
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English
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Chinese
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Arabic
Professional working proficiency
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Japanese
Limited working proficiency
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Persian
Limited working proficiency
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Danish
Elementary proficiency
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Korean
Limited working proficiency
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I’m excited to announce that my colleague Kaidi Gao and I will be co-hosting PitchBook’s upcoming webinar on November 21, where we’ll take a deep…
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Rudy Yang and I recently published a 5-note series on #fintech in #APAC. Each report spotlights a major regional market - Japan, Southeast Asia…
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Back at it! So good to be in Hong Kong and my first time in Shenzhen last week. Wouldn’t be a fintech conference without an impromptu trip to Macau…
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📢 PSA 📢 Ahead of Singapore FinTech Festival 2024, I wanted to bring attention to PitchBook's most recent Analyst Note on APAC Fintech by my…
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As always, I had a fantastic time at DC Fintech Week this year! Last week, on the heels of Stripe’s $1.1 billion acquisition of stablecoin platform…
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