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My parent were tasked with the job of survival and I with self-actualization. The immigrant generational gap is real. What a luxury it is to search for purpose, meaning, and fulfillment.
Bo Ren
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Bo Ren
@Bosefina
Managing Director at @siliconvlybank, championing the founders of today and tomorrow. Past @meta @instagram @tumblr | Opinions are my own
- My dad sent me this view from my childhood room in Portland. It hit me that we have been wasting our collective intelligence in tech optimizing for profits and ad clicks.
- Marriage in your 20s is a startup marriage. You're both young, broke, and malleable enough to grow together. Marriage in your 30s is a merger marriage. You're both fully formed human beings conjoining your own assets & identity. I can't recommend enough getting a prenup.
- Replying to @Bosefina“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.”—Jeffrey Hammerbacher
- 1/ My favorite story about my dad is he got into Peking University (the Harvard of China) but a corrupt communist official swapped his admission ticket w/ his daughter's admission ticket.
- Just discovered BLACKPINK, finally, and my life will never be the same again. 😭 Thank you @alikriegsman 💗
- The beauty of BLACKPINK is their diversity of backgrounds: culture, language, personality. Their music, style, vibe is so uniquely eclectic bc they all are so different. Makes me wonder what a BLACKPINK startup would look like.
- This book is for anyone who thought something was wrong with them for being many things, a deep generalist, a multipotentialite, a person who defied specialization. It puzzled me for so long why people couldn’t put me in boxes and questioned my non-linear liberal arts path.
- Reading is the best way to scale your learning, writing is the best way to scale your thinking.
- My parents did not immigrate half across the world for me to be a broke ass bitch. I'm sorry...I have to be a capitalist. 🤑 My mom and dad sacrificed too much for me to not generate outsized ROI.
- Replying to @BosefinaPrenups get a bad rep but they are the best way to futureproof your marriage together. It forces you to talk about your relationship to money, psychology of money, and childhood traumas. America does nothing to prepare you for the most important singular decision in your life.
- 1/ In light of the current events this week, I'm breaking my silence about offer negotiations was a WOC in tech. My DMs are open to all POCs and black operators who would like advice on offer negotiations b/c this is an area we are woefully disadvantaged in.
- Replying to @Bosefina8/ My dad taught me that the world is not fair. You can either let injustices define you or choose to move on and find a way to become a more resilient person. The human spirit can do amazing things in the face of adversity.
- In Silicon Valley I use to think being too "human" was a weakness. Too empathetic, too emotional, too vulnerable, too feminine. Now I wear "human" was a badge of honor. The future lies in humanists building a human layer on top of technology.