Sharon Gai
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242 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 24 Jun
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So we both sat in the audience, went through the presentation, went through the event, and it was a recruiting event.
So at the time, Alibaba was a company that was globalizing.
So it had reached, it knew it would be reaching the peak of its user base in China.
So it was expanding all around the world.
And that was right around when I joined that company.
company.
So I went back to China and I joined this e-commerce behemoth and the rest is sort of history.
The position that I did different assignments in, the countries that I moved to, to where I am now.
I think I am so blessed and fortunate to be in the position that I am.
I feel like I have put myself in a self-programmed PhD program that I made up and I designed.
I have these modules of learning that I have to go through.
I have to write a quote-unquote dissertation, which is my upcoming book.
It feels like a PhD dissertation, but it's basically compiled everything that I have learned and know about things that's happening in the AI space and also my opinions and my insights.
And I then have to fly around the world and go to different events and stages and tell people about pieces of my dissertation.
So I feel like I've put myself in a makeshift PhD program in a way and
What better position can I be to be in a paid place to be a student, to be a lifelong student of learning?
And so I think that's what I thoroughly enjoy is that ability to learn, absorb things, but also to tell people about the important things that I have come across and that I have learned.
My challenges, I would say, is I think navigating through the uncertainty.
I think many of us, especially with what's happening in the AI space, whether you are a student, whether you are a company leader, whether you are a knowledge worker working at any sort of company, it's very uncertain.
I think the ability to navigate between what is noise and what is signal is a very important skill.
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