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- Sherry Jiang left Google in 2021 to start her own company, Peek, a personal finance platform.
- She set herself up to walk away from the corporate world thanks to smart investing in her 20s.
- She also lowered her cost of living after she quit by moving in with roommates and traveling less.
As a business school student at UC Berkeley, Sherry Jiang felt like she had three career path options: accounting, banking, or consulting — or, "the ABCs," she told Business Insider.
She gravitated toward banking, landed a summer job at Goldman Sachs after her junior year, and wrapped up the internship with two main takeaways.