{
  "id": 2109920,
  "title": "I dropped out of high school at 16 to become a Buddhist monk. Now I run a startup taking on Accenture.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/i-dropped-out-of-high-school-at-16-to-become-a-buddhist-monk-now-i",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-20T09:05:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Insider",
    "slug": "business-insider",
    "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/fsh-technologies-series-a-ceo-lilly-chen-accenture-2026-8"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "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.",
  "summary": "Lilly Chen is a former teenage monk turned tech CEO who's now competing with consulting giants like Accenture for prime government business.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}