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#65 - Shawn Huang, Founder and CEO of 36paths

Daniel Lee

#65 - Shawn Huang, Founder and CEO of 36paths. Finance to Building a Career Accelerator and Darkside of Solopreneurship.

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Join in for a conversation with Shawn Huang, Founder and CEO of 36paths, a career accelerator based in Toronto. Shawn immigrated to Canada as an international student from a city 2 hours outside of Shanghai China. Despite having a family tree filled with academics in all subjects of science, Shawn decided to study business to chase an internal entrepreneurial fire that had him sell soda cans as a kid and drop ship shoes as a kid. After building a career in finance as an investment banker and product manager of a FinTech startup in Toronto, he made the leap to go full-time into his career accelerator that helps international students, like himself, get jobs in various business careers. In our chat, we talk about his journey to starting 36paths, the cultural differences between Shanghai and Toronto, and what the first 6 months of solopreneurship has been like. It’s a conversation I really enjoyed having and we get quite deep and real as we share the shit sandwich we each ate in the first 6 months of our respective journey.