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Principles of Career Pivoting with Saison Capital Principal and HBS 2+2 MBA Candidate Chia
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Principles of Career Pivoting with Saison Capital Principal and HBS 2+2 MBA Candidate Chia

In this podcast, you will learn:

1. Principles of career pivoting: fire-fighting to law to investing

2. Actionable advice for cracking Harvard Business School MBA admissions

3. Art of reaching out and writing effectively

Chia Jeng Yang 谢征阳 is a Principal at Saison Capital, a Japanese-backed fintech-focused fund (early-late stage, debt, fund of funds) that invests globally and in any vertical, but especially in emerging markets: Southeast Asia, India, LATAM, etc.

Previously, he was the 5th employee (Investment Manager/Country Launcher) for Antler, an early-stage VC/pre-team accelerator, and helped built Daraz, an e-commerce company that was acquired by Alibaba, in Pakistan/Sri Lanka for Rocket Internet. He is a consumer angel investor, with portfolio companies in Indonesia, Bangladesh, Egypt, London and the US, and founded Shaper Impact Capital, a global platform for impact dealflow and startup support, currently in 20 countries.

His educational background includes a law undergraduate from Cambridge, and a deferred Harvard MBA. His previous work and writing (including topics on consumer investing) has been featured by CNBC, e27, Yahoo!, TechinAsia, etc.

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