The High Flyers Podcast with Vidit Agarwal

Jeanette Cheah: Global upbringing and asian heritage + inside how they're bringing fun innovation education for the next gen at HEX!

1 tim 5 min•7 september 2022

In this episode #103 w Jeanette Cheah, learn about:

Her global upbringing, born in Hawaii and then Japan before settling down in Melbourne
Chinese and Malaysian heritage
How seeing her parents, with mum an accountant and dad an economist made education the cornerstone of her early years
Starting career in the banking sector and then realising she didn’t want to play by those rules
How HEX started with trade missions to san Fransisco with a group of students from Australia
Being 3 days away from travelling to Austin, Texas on a big program and the borders shut down when COVID hit in 2020
Raising money from investors
Funding challenges for female founders
Current economic climate
+ stay tuned for some very cool info about Jeanette’s assistant and more!

It’s now time to explore your curiosity. Please enjoy!

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