Education
This week we talked to Henry, a 4th year EngSci Robotics student who shared his interesting story of growing a lot over the course of his undergraduate studies, from starting a student learning startup and learning from failure. He had a lot of interesting insights he shared with us! 2:00 - coming to Canada in high school 6:25 - differences in how Chinese international students approach internships/career things 8:00 - learning to code 16:10 - What the process of raising seed funding, talking to 100 investors, mostly in China, growing to 60 people 19:00 - Running out of money 28:30 - Going Cali or bust, applying to tech and management consulting 35:43 - technical interviews, and how failing management consulting interviews helped 36:46 - working at Wish, the “typical silicon valley startup”, making data driven decisions 40:30 - 40:30 - seeing old friends and being back at school again