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name: life-history
description: Ben's life path: Bremen and Marseille studies, Zurich, Boracay thesis, Ukraine, Bangkok since 2018, the startup split, past loves Imme and Camille
sources: [chat]
aliases: [biography, my story, background]
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- [stated] Multilingual degree: first 1.5 years in Bremen, main studies in Marseille (German, French and Spanish classes mixed); hung out most with the French group
- [stated] Internships in Berlin and Zurich; diploma thesis as a 6 month internship at a tourist center in Boracay, Philippines (clashed with the local center head from month one)
- [stated] Popular and friendly at school and university but shy; shyness can read as arrogance
- [stated] Office job before crypto; later worked for a crypto project, then quit to trade full time when a bull market started
- [stated] Left Germany for about 3 months in Ukraine, then moved to Thailand in 2018 at the invite of Thai based online friends
- [stated] In Bangkok co founded a market making startup with those friends, [[felix]] and investor Yannick (who fronted 100K and raised his stake from about 10% to 15 to 20% over time); it dissolved after a shares dispute
- [stated] Godfather (Patenonkel) to the son of one of his two best school friends; barely in touch for about 10 years
- [stated] Past loves: Imme (German, around age 18, six months); Camille (French, met in Marseille, about a year, she ended it by phone after he moved to Zurich; the most impactful love of his life)
- [stated] A former Thai girlfriend lived with him until the 2022 bear market bottom