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    #15: Chris Lee - Professional Poker Player, MBA Student at USC, and Analyst at March Capital Partners

    enSeptember 23, 2018

    About this Episode

    Chris Lee is a professional poker player, second year student in the full time MBA program at the USC Marshall School of Business, and works as an analyst at March Capital Partners.

    In this episode of the Just Go Grind Podcast we discuss how Chris got started playing poker and eventually won a bracelet in the World Series of Poker, why he decided to go back to school and get an MBA and how he navigated his first year, his experience working for March Capital Partners, and what he thinks the next steps are in his unconventional career path.

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