I dropped out of high school at 16 to become a Buddhist monk. Now I run a startup taking on Accenture.
Lilly Chen is a former teenage monk turned tech CEO who's now competing with consulting giants like Accenture for prime government business.
Lilly Chen, the 30-year-old founder and CEO of FSH Technologies, has recently raised $25 million in funding. Chen, who dropped out of high school at 16 to become a Buddhist monk, now competes with firms like Accenture to modernize government technology systems. Her time as a monk in rural China taught her valuable leadership lessons, such as listening to others and seeing the bigger picture.
After returning to America, she returned to college, completed a GED, and graduated from Colorado College. Chen then taught herself to code and became a software engineer at Meta before founding FSH Technologies, which builds software for cities, school districts, and state agencies.
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