Lunch with Simon, Founder of NEST Investments and Fluid

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Posted on 5 January, 2016
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Group photo at the NEST office

“Do you realize that the most successful people act like they have nothing to lose?”

A light lunch with a fruitful chat on taking risks, finding your passion and how to take your ideas forward — Thank you Simon for the sharing and taking us on a tour of the awesome office of Nest and Fluid!

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This lunch has raised 69 volunteer hours to Feeding Hong Kong, Crossroad, IMC Sunday School, St James’ Settlement People’s Food Bank and more.

This article originally appeared on our blog on Medium: https://medium.com/time-auction/lunch-with-simon-founder-of-nest-investments-and-fluid-7f8b23578004

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