E94 — Thomas Cheng — Nine Surprises and Counting
The Fuqua Show kicks off a new season by welcoming back one of its co-founders. Co-hosts Sam and Philip Cole sit down with Thomas Cheng, a 2025 Duke dual MBA/MPP graduate, to talk about a career shaped by unexpected turns. Along the way, Thomas counts off nine surprises, the unexpected turns that took him from a rural classroom in Guangdong to Beijing, Durham, Mexico City, and Deloitte.
Thomas went looking for a connection to his Chinese heritage and found two years teaching English to classes of 60 in rural Guangdong. That led to four and a half years in Beijing, first in Teach for China…
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