Lisa JY Tan

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Superpower

I think I might have figured out what my superpower is. It’s not economics, not the ability to do things when the world says otherwise, not seeing the world from…

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Options

Margin call Turned out to be a Put That is all Guess it was time to boot Leveraged positions, big or small It’s stupid to compute I really hope the…

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3 HR Lessons Learnt

A lesson learnt. An expensive lesson, to be specific. Since my company is in an innovative, radical and fast-moving space, I decided to expand the business radically. The lesson learnt…

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A Village

They say it takes a village to raise a child. And I’ll say it takes another village to start a company. The tremendous amount of help I’ve received to get…

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Of Obsessed

I’m so obsessed with what I do. I’m completely in love with it and every single day, I’m just immensely grateful to be doing what I do. Every day, I’m…

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Of Struggles

Today, I wrote this. I actually want this struggle. I want this fear. I want this uncertainty. I want this unknown. I want this pressure. There is so much to…

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Current mood (Feb ’21): Make future Lisa proud. Embrace them struggles so future Lisa doesn’t have to do it. DCF the struggle. ROI is exponential!

Note to self (Q1)

Dear Lisa, you’ll be fine. Just fine. You’re on the right path. Just make sure you don’t deviate too much or get distracted by the next shiny thing. Focus on the things that matter, and keep building building and building. It may be scary out there, but you have the world’s biggest cheerleaders and supporters behind you. You’ll be fine. Just fine.