Why I Walked Away | Dave Liu

About This Episode:
Dave Liu is a 30-year veteran of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. He is an advisor, author, entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. After retiring from Wall Street, he started four companies in technology, merchant banking, asset management and media. He is CEO advisor and investor to multiple companies, several of which have reached multi-billion dollar “unicorn” status, including Internet Brands WebMD, MobilityWare, FIGS and Vobile. He’s also involved in the entertainment industry with investments in Stampede and TEG+, and consumer with Philz Coffee and Francesca’s. He was previously CEO advisor to ProSiebenSat.1 Media, one of the largest media companies in Europe.

Dave is also a “perspiring” artist and writer who loves to draw and write funny. He has multiple certifications in creative and satirical writing as well as screenwriting. He publishes a career advice column called Breaking Bamboo, and a cartoon series called The ABC Life.

He wrote ‘The Way of the Wall Street Warrior’ to help underrepresented communities achieve their career goals and has pledged 100 percent of the net proceeds from his book to charity. The book sold almost 10,000 copies in the first two weeks of launch and reached the Top 10 Amazon Best Seller list in the business finance category. It ranked as Amazon’s No. 1 Hot New Release in two categories: Business Finance, and Economics. It was awarded one of the Best Books of 2021 by Bloomberg and the Porchlight Book Company Business Best Seller in November 2021.

Find out more about Dave at:
Dave’s Website: https://liucrative.co/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daveliu/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Liucrative/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liucrativeendeavors/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/liucrative
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@liucrative
YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/daddyliu

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