Dear all,

Greetings!!!

I was a college student in the United States, doing a summer job in Brussels, Belgium when I started Couchsurfing. I've met so many amazing people and made lifelong friendships. Now as an ex-Uber and ex-European Parliament serial entrepreneur, I've decided to switch industry to private equity and consulting via an MBA program at INSEAD (Fountainbleu, France, and Singapore) starting in January 2019.

I speak English with an American accent and I am interested in learning about different people and their life experiences. I don't like to get drunk, and never have I smoked. So please don't force me to do those things.

Although I am still a student, I find myself enjoy talking to "old" people, not necessarily "old" but rich in life experiences and world knowledge - who are usually older than me. Meanwhile, I love spending time with people who are fun to be with. After all, life is short.

I have been to a lot of places. When I was a kid, I was born and raised in the hinterland of China. Unlike Beijing and Shanghai, my city is relatively small but interesting to live in. I fell in love with traveling after I got accepted to the college. The summer before my freshman year, I traveled to 15+ cities throughout China by myself, to visit my friends, make new friends, and observe the society. In the next few years, I researched anthropology in Malawi (in Africa), ran experiments in psychology labs, represented for a German company in China, sold touchscreen monitors, started 3 startups, mentored high school kids, designed governance structure for a blockchain, outsourced for Uber and worked with legislative branches of the US and the EU governments.

I can speak English, Chinese, and Thai and am learning both Spanish and Indonesian. I hope that I'll be able to find a host family in Indonesia that speaks the local language. :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Learn about culture and languages. Exchange ideas. (Potentially) forging business deals.

Interests

reading history and biography, hiking, listening to music, and chatting.

• culture
• reading
• music
• entrepreneurship
• history
• languages
• private equity
• venture capital

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Staring at the stars at night in Gowa Village

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Laos, Macao, Malawi, Mexico, North Korea, Northern Mariana Islands, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, China, Thailand, United States