Allison Yu is a literature lover and writer, a graduate of Columbia University in New York and the Sorbonne Université in Paris who is also a recent member of the finance tech startup world. Growing up in a Chinese household in the San Francisco Bay Area, she has enjoyed the opportunity to observe and absorb practices regarding relationships across three different countries and continents. She's usually either at a café with a laptop, pastry, and cappuccino; at a restaurant with friends; in a ballet studio; or at a piano bench. She's currently working on a novel about a classical pianist.