"At 15, she returned to China to attend an international school before heading to Toronto for college, where she later started her career in management consulting. "I thought, 'I'm going to fulfill the immigrant dream. I'm going to get a great corporate job and all that,'" Tian, now 30, told Business Insider. However, the predictability of her days left her wanting more, and after three years, she moved to Beijing in 2020 to work for a major Chinese tech company."
"Tian said she found her answer: The life she wanted didn't include a corporate job. Instead, she and her boyfriend wanted to start a search fund, which involves looking for and acquiring a small business to run themselves. "I would say a lot of the reason why people want to do it is because they don't want to work for someone else. They want to be their own boss, and I definitely want to do that as well," Tian said."
Sally Tian was born in Guangzhou, lived in China until age ten, and moved with her family to Vancouver. She returned to China at 15 for an international school before attending college in Toronto and starting a management consulting career. After three years in corporate consulting, she moved to Beijing in 2020 to work for a major Chinese tech company, later relocating to Shanghai and then joining a startup. In 2023, she and her boyfriend left Shanghai lockdowns to pursue an MBA in the US. After two years at Harvard, she decided against corporate employment and chose to start a search fund in China to run a small business herself.
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