Profile: Vickers Capital's Finian Tan
One of the men who bet on Baidu before anyone knew what it was, Vickers Capital founder Finian Tan worked as a counselor, university don, oil trader and politician before settling on venture capital
He may have generated a return of 100x on one of his first VC deals, been offered scholarships by the world's top universities and attended parties with Prince Charles, but when Finian Tan was an adolescent,...
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