“I’ve been having conference calls until 2 AM every day recently.”
The speaker is a veteran finance professional who has been in the traditional brokerage industry for over a decade. As he said this, he placed his phone face down on the coffee table. The corners of his eyes were slightly red, but his tone remained very nonchalant.
His office in Beijing is located in a siheyuan in Xicheng District, where the two large doors are slightly peeling. The afternoon light slants into the courtyard, with some dust floating in the beams. He sits at an old wooden table, dealing with issues related to regulation, business cooperation, and project scheduling.
Starting in the finance industry over a decade ago, he experienced the last financial crisis and has rolled with the punches in global markets, managing funds, running products, and leading teams across continents. In recent years, he has begun to shift towards a direction that the entire…
