For the final episode of 2025, we are joined by a guest who embodies the spirit of exploration: Eric Wang. By day, Eric works in private equity in New York City, managing commercial real estate deals on Wall Street. On weekends, he trades his spreadsheets for a chef's knife, running 81 Eats – a supper club and pop-up series featuring "Chinese-inspired comfort food." From growing up in Shanghai and attending boarding school in the US at age 12, to training at Wharton and a top-tier...
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For the final episode of 2025, we are joined by a guest who embodies the spirit of exploration: Eric Wang. By day, Eric works in private equity in New York City, managing commercial real estate deals on Wall Street. On weekends, he trades his spreadsheets for a chef's knife, running 81 Eats – a supper club and pop-up series featuring "Chinese-inspired comfort food." From growing up in Shanghai and attending boarding school in the US at age 12, to training at Wharton and a top-tier...
Timothy Chen: From “Not Good Enough for Microsoft” to Building Trust in Code and Capital
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Timothy Chen: From “Not Good Enough for Microsoft” to Building Trust in Code and Capital
Timothy Chen’s story isn’t your typical Silicon Valley success arc. He didn’t start as a hotshot coder - Microsoft once slotted him into the IT track, nothing more. Yet he went on to become a member of the Apache Software Foundation, contribute to open-source projects like Kafka and Mesos (the one-time rival to Kubernetes), and now runs Essence VC, where he backs infrastructure founders with a hands-on approach. In this episode, we talk about: The underdog mindset that turne...
floating questions
For the final episode of 2025, we are joined by a guest who embodies the spirit of exploration: Eric Wang. By day, Eric works in private equity in New York City, managing commercial real estate deals on Wall Street. On weekends, he trades his spreadsheets for a chef's knife, running 81 Eats – a supper club and pop-up series featuring "Chinese-inspired comfort food." From growing up in Shanghai and attending boarding school in the US at age 12, to training at Wharton and a top-tier...
