Although I still don't know that many people in San Francisco, I have no regrets moving here. Moving here was risky. Without ever visiting SF, I acted on gut/instinct and the courageous impulse found in youth to quit my job at Rakuten and sign up for a summer course in Berkeley. While taking my statistics course at UC Berkeley, I looked for jobs and applied to almost everything under the sun that consist of the title "marketing". In the end, I didn't continue the marketing path and I didn't work for a traditional start-up. Instead, I found an internship at a boutique consulting firm that specializes in US-Asia cross-border market entry, growth analysis, and market research. I started on Sept 14th after spending a month at home in Upper Dublin.