Zuckerberg也是如此
https://www.legalist.com/news/the-26-year-old-dropout-lapping-the-hedge-fund-field
Fund manager, startup founder, blogger: Eva Shang is cracking the private debt market. The $400 million she raised in six months says Wall Street is taking notice.
Ms. Shang didn’t fit into Harvard’s culture of exclusive social clubs, she said. She and Mr. Haigh dropped out and moved to San Francisco in 2016, when they raised their first $1.5 million by making it into startup accelerator Y Combinator. An adviser at the accelerator suggested they use their database for litigation finance, an idea the pair spent a year marketing to mostly uninterested investors before raising their first $10 million fund.
Eva回忆中也表示自己确实也没能融入进哈佛的社交圈内。这就像是哈佛学校的一种传
统文化,有时看起来有些排外。更不用说,并不是每个人都能拥有那种神奇的常春藤社
交魅力。
2016年,年仅20岁的Eva Shang和Christian Haigh一起辍学了。经过多方考量,他们决
定离开有些“过于精致”的东北部,搬家到了更加自由奔放的西海岸地区生活。
Eva或许真的不善于交际于哈佛大学的各个社交俱乐部,但是她对法律以及数据的痴迷
,为自己独特的创业之旅打下了夯实的基础。
Eva Shang如何艰难创业
Eva Shang和Christian Haigh一起辍学后搬到了曾经嬉皮士的聚集地——旧金山。在这
里,他们获得了创业孵化器Y Combinator的支持,并获得了人生中第一笔150万美元(
或200万美元,说法不定)的融资。
他们共同创建了投资公司Legalist,自诩技术驱动型投资公司,希望可以实现一些数据
和投资的不一样的结合。Y Combinator的天使顾问对于他们从在线法院系统中搜集数据
,进行了一系列的商讨,随后想到一个方向:不妨将数据库,运用到诉讼融资领域试试?