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My guest today is Weijian Shan, the chairman and CEO of PAG, a leading Asia-focused private equity firm. Prior to PAG, he was a partner of the private equity firm TPG, and co-managing partner of TPG Asia (formerly known as Newbridge Capital). Over two decades, Weijian Shan has led a number of landmark transactions that have returned billions of dollars in profit to his firms’ investors. Previously, Shan was a managing director of JP Morgan, and an assistant professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In his youth, he spent several years working as a laborer in the Gobi Desert of China.
The topics are his books Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America and Money Games: The Inside Story of How American Dealmakers Saved Korea’s Most Iconic Bank.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Life in Gobi Desert
- Living in China
- Human Nature
- Curiosity
- America the Land of Opportunity
- Equal Opportunities in America
- Misconceptions about China
- Understanding Different Cultures
- China and Japan
Mentions & Resources:
- Weijian Shan
- Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America
- Money Games: The Inside Story of How American Dealmakers Saved Korea’s Most Iconic Bank
- Gobi Desert
- United Nations Foundation
- Barack Obama
- J. P. Morgan
- TPG Capital
- David Bonderman
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