Joanna Lin, Author at yCITIES

02Oct 2022 by Joanna Lin No Comments

S2: Cutting Through The Noise — by Joanna Lin

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If you’ve been following along the episodes of Inside the Mind of An Investor, guess who’s been behind the scenes! Yours, truly. My eagerness to watch (and edit) each episode is almost parallel to my enthusiasm for watching Stranger Things and Moon Knight. I came to these videos with largely a blank slate of the thinking behind the investor world. Despite a few years of watching Shark Tank under my belt, I am constantly baffled by how investors decide to invest in, or decide to say “I’m Out” (I’m looking at you, Barbara) for companies. As a high school junior(!), I am still largely unsure about what I want to do in my future, and learning more about the nuances of investing has been beneficial in learning about unique career…

19Mar 2022 by Joanna Lin No Comments

S1: The First Deep Dive into the Daunting World of Investing — by Joanna Lin

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If you’ve been following along the episodes of Inside the Mind of An Investor, guess who’s been behind the scenes! Yours, truly. My eagerness to watch (and edit) each episode is almost parallel to my enthusiasm for Hawkeye and WandaVision. I came to these videos with largely a blank slate of the thinking behind the investor world. Despite a few years of watching Shark Tank under my belt, I am constantly baffled by how investors decide to invest in, or decide to say “I’m Out” (I’m looking at you, Barbara) for companies. As a high school sophomore, I am still largely unsure about what I want to do in my future, and learning more about the nuances of investing has been beneficial in learning about unique career paths. Every 5…

25Jan 2022 by Joanna Lin No Comments

Let’s Give Ads that Better the World — by Joanna Lin

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You’ve just excitedly clicked on the new Mr. Beast video, expecting to see how he recreated the new Squid Games, but before you get to the chirpy intro, you hear — Irritated, you wait five seconds before you skip the ad and move onto the video, forgetting the ad altogether (except for the annoyed feeling you got from it). But what if ads weren’t bothersome? What if there was a world in which the advertiser asked your permission first and made the experience interactive and entertaining? On top of that, what if you would help the world become a better place? Sounds impossible to achieve, but entrepreneur and angel investor Tarek Eldin is building this world at his new venture, Let’sGive.org. Motivated by the ineffectiveness of most ads and users’…

18Dec 2021 by Joanna Lin No Comments

The Evolution of yCITIES — by Joanna Lin

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This blog post is meant for two different types of readers: the returners and the newcomers. The returners might be asking — what’s with the new website, the new logo, and more importantly, the new name? For the newcomers, we used to be Youth CITIES, which is still a cool name, but how much cooler is yCITIES? Think of all the possibilities the “y” could signify: you, youth, young adult, your mother, (y)etc. And that is exactly why yCITIES changed its name. This organization, having begun in 2008, has grown with a significant number of folks who began their journeys here in their teens. Whether they’ve stuck for the entire ride or continued on their roads and returned, the name yCITIES reflects the open arms with which we welcome all,…