In Chapter 2 of 12 in his 2012 Capture Your Flag interview, entrepreneur Anatole Faykin answers "What Did Traveling Abroad This Past Year Teach You About Yourself?" Faykin shares two abroad experiences and how they each informed his understanding of self. First, he takes a trip with his best friends to Peru to hike Machu Picchu, which reminds him about the importance of friendship in his life. The second trip is a wedding hopping trip to Australia, Singapore and Indonesia - three weddings in five weeks in the Far East. Traveling alone in between the weddings, Faykin realizes he does not enjoy traveling alone as much as he used to in his younger days.
Anatole Faykin is an entrepreneur currently working on a new startup as part of the Startup Chile incubator program in Santiago, Chile. Previously, Faykin founded Tuanpin, a Shanghai, China-based daily deals site he grew to 25 employees and sold in the fall of 2011. He has worked for British Telecom in London, Intel in Shanghai, American Express in New York, and Oracle in San Francisco as well as several startups. He holds an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business and a BS in computer science and biology from the California Institute of Technology.