"Growing up, my first job was to be a translator for my family at age 6. As a teenager, my job was working the front desk at the restaurant they were eventually able to open,"
"Always, always, I knew that I was an outsider. Kids bullied me. I worried constantly that my family might not have enough money to get by."
"My time in science lab and the tennis and robotics teams was the foundation for my success in college,"
"We met at a going-away party my friends threw for me in college when they thought I was about to get kicked out of school. I asked her out but told her we'd need to go out soon since I might only have a few days left."
Priscilla Chan was born in February 1985 in Massachusetts to Chinese refugee parents who fled Vietnam. She began translating for her family at age six and later worked the front desk at her family’s restaurant. She experienced bullying and financial worries growing up. Chan attended Quincy High School, participated in robotics and tennis, and graduated as class valedictorian in 2003. She studied biology at Harvard. Chan met Mark Zuckerberg at a 2003 college party. She transitioned from medical student to cofounder of a widely recognized philanthropy and shares personal glimpses on social media as family and ventures expand.
Read at Business Insider
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