In your eyes, what does a top student in a prestigious school look like? In just 6 months, this 26-year-old girl has become a powerful figure on Wall Street, where there are many capable people.

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In your eyes, what should a top student in a prestigious school look like?

is smart and knowledgeable or mature and steady.

Just recently, Eva Shang, a Chinese girl who dropped out of Harvard , has completely changed people's stereotype of students from prestigious schools.

In just 6 months, this 26-year-old girl has become a powerful figure in Wall Street where many talented people are born.

not only founded the technology investment company Legalist on his own, but also made his first pot of gold in life: 400 million US dollars. How did Eva Shang achieve

?

Her story is worthy of reflection by each of us.

html I immigrated to the United States at the age of 103, but still lived like an outsider html When she was 13 years old, Eva immigrated to Pennsylvania from China with her family.

Judging from public information, she lived in the suburbs of Philadelphia for most of her childhood, and her mother supported the family independently.

Eva, who was born in a single-parent family, has been very independent since she was a child. When

html was 17 years old, he knew how to help his mother with housework and take care of his sister who was born with birth defects.

Her younger sister, Melissa, suffers from muscular dystrophy and needs to sit in a wheelchair all year round.

As a second-generation immigrant, Eva initially had high expectations for putting aside racism and integrating into American society.

However, the reality is cruel.

Just because she is Asian and a minority.

How could Eva be in high school? Not only was she excluded from mainstream society, it was also difficult for her to speak out.

In order to change this unfair group status, Eva became a civil rights leader, taking the initiative to help disadvantaged groups stand up and speak out.

html When she was 117 years old, Eva took her younger sister to speak for people with disabilities at a TEDx event and delivered a speech on "Why Girls with Disabilities Matter."

At the same time, she also co-authored and published a novel called "Mia Lee Goes to School in a Wheelchair" with her sister, which received 4.6/5 reviews on Amazon .

In 2013, Eva successfully entered Harvard University with her outstanding personal ability.

In the same year, she helped her sister make a request to American Girl Company, hoping that they could produce a doll that symbolized children with disabilities.

A few years later, with the help of her sister, Melissa was also admitted to Harvard and became a disability activist.

But looking back at Eva's past few years when she was admitted to university, her life was not smooth.

not only cannot find a sense of identity, but also cannot integrate into the cultural circle of peers at all, especially various social clubs.

's derailment from campus culture gradually made Eva think about dropping out of school.

Then it all really started to come into action when Eva met Christian Haigh.

Both of them are not only not interested in the "too refined" Northeast, but are also obsessed with legal and data-related fields.

has the above scene.

20-year-old dropped out of Harvard to start a business, and his life was just because of his love for

In 2016, the two people who hit it off decided to drop out of school and go to Beijing to start a business, planning to use databases in the field of litigation financing.

You must know that Eva had just turned 20 years old at the time.

At a time when the vast majority of international students are still catching up on their due dates and working hard for further studies.

This young girl has already become the boss one step ahead. I have to say that her courage is not inferior to that of Bill Gates.

Everything is difficult at the beginning. When

first started its business, many investors refused to invest in Eva because her team was too young.

Huangtian paid off, and a year later they finally raised several funds.

But for the investment industry they want to get involved in, this $1.6 million is a drop in the bucket.

In order to stand out from other competitors, Eva uses artificial intelligence as a foothold and team members to modify the financing plan over and over again, constantly adjusting market customers.After

finally survived the most difficult 4 years of start-up, Legalist established 's first fund of US$10 million.

It is understood that Legalist’s current assets under management have reached US$665 million.

And in the past six months, Legalist founded by Eva has raised US$400 million in funding.

You must know that in this emerging field, there are not many people who can be so successful.

And they are basically all older white men with backgrounds in top investment banks and private equity companies.

html This is the first time for a 126-year-old Chinese girl.

When a reporter asked her, why did she choose to start a business in the first place?

Eva revealed:

"While working part-time in the Public Defender's Office in Washington, I discovered that it actually costs money to seek justice. Powerful opponents will use proposals and evidence to torture a small company.

And legal data can change Things like accessing resources in the justice system to increase your chances of winning.”

Her story was even published in the Wall Street Journal and she became a household name.

It is also worth mentioning that in 2018, Eva was also selected as one of the "30 Under 30" by "Forbes".

has to say that looking back on her journey, it is simply a textbook entrepreneurship.

She has therefore become a unique label for Harvard dropouts, which has attracted widespread attention in the Chinese community.

But as for Eva’s dropout to start a business, her mother still doesn’t understand why she dropped out of Harvard.

The public has always had an inseparable attachment to prestigious schools, and I think Eva’s mother is the same.

But a prestigious school is not the only criterion for judging a person's success, and the same is true for someone with a net worth of over 100 million.

In the author's opinion, in this fleeting life, it is already remarkable if you can have a passion and pursue it with all your strength, just like the Chinese girl in the article.

Even if it seems deviant to outsiders, who stipulates that she cannot follow this path?

As the saying goes: The truth is always in the hands of a few people.

Is she a deviant or are we stuck in the rut?

Of course, I am not advocating that everyone drop out of school and start a business, but that they should follow their own wishes and do what they think is right.

After all, there are only a handful of people who succeed once they start a business, and there are many failure cases where they lose their entire fortune and end up in poverty.

Looking at business wizards, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, , Mark Zuckerberg, are almost all examples of "dropouts".

People can’t help but wonder: When did it become popular to drop out of school and start a business?

Author: Mary

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