Qiuyan comes from a family of academics. Her father was a mathematics professor and her mother was a high school teacher…so we wanted to know how she got interested in investing and markets.
Qiuyan has always been good with numbers and her dad encouraged her to study actuarial science at university…which, by all accounts, is very difficult. Her undergraduate degree lead naturally to a job at Manulife but it was actually a summer internship at J.P. Morgan that got her interested in the stock market.
However, even her subsequent job at Goldman Sachs did not allow her to connect the dots as much as starting her first company did. When the income statement and balance sheet along with the equity in the company become your own, things really start to change. This was when all of those numbers really started to make sense.
