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Yvette Wu is on the other side of the coin

How does it feel to jump from a bank to a fintech company? “You can actually get shit done.”

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James Matthews
Mar 30, 2022
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5951 No. 3 Road in Richmond’s Brighouse neighbourhood is a mid-rise commercial building shadowed by the last vestiges of the Canada Line. Before Freshii or Beard Papa’s called the corner of No. 3 Road and Firbridge Way home, Unit #118 housed the hair salon where Yvette Wu was raised. 

Her maternal grandfather mastered the craft in Hong Kong, to the point…

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