12 Minute Convos W/ Engel Jones

"In middle school, my grades started dropping, but I felt I was ahead of my peers in cognition, quickly figured out the ed system is using an incorrect yardstick to measure my calibre. Fast forward to high school, I realised, I need to figure out other ways to portray my calibre, which is when I co-created a digital medical assistant that organised medical records when I was 14, for which a doctor with an entrepreneurial side, tried to Acqui-hire me. I then worked with a non-profit that taught people to crochet, whose community I leveraged to collect cloth to convert to baby blankets, which we donated to orphans. After that I had a stint of multiple virtual case-study based internships with investment banks like Citi APAC, JP Morgan, Goodbody, HSBC, etc. I then enrolled in UoL's BSc. Finance, which I have been dropping in and out of. In this period, I have also attended multiple fintech related events like global fintech fest, Singapore fintech fest etc, and have been on panels around teen entrepreneurship. I