dentdelions

A record of growing, one seed at a time.

Dent de lion, the lion's tooth, is where the word dandelion comes from. A dandelion doesn't grow in one place. It lets go, and its seeds travel.

This is where I keep mine: what I'm learning, building, and getting wrong, between Paris, Boston, and wherever comes next.

Yashu

Now

  • Spending the fall on exchange at Babson College, outside Boston.
  • MBA at HEC Paris, class of 2027.
  • Building a small venture of my own. More soon.

Updated November 2026

Journal

Why dentdelions

The plant everyone calls a weed is hard to kill and built to travel.

Read

I spent ten years reading markets in China. Then I left, first for Paris, now Boston.

Somewhere along the way I learned that the dandelion's name comes from the French dent de lion. The plant everyone calls a weed is hard to kill, useful from root to flower, and built to travel. Its seeds don't stay close to home. They go where the wind takes them, and they take root.

That felt right for this stretch of my life. So this is where I'll keep my seeds: notes on what I'm learning, what I'm building, and what I'm getting wrong.

Some will grow. That's the point of having many.

Path

  1. Before 2025Ten years in trading and portfolio management in China.
  2. 2025Started the MBA at HEC Paris.
  3. Fall 2026Exchange semester at Babson College.
  4. Nov 2026Planted dentdelions.com.

About

I'm Yashu. For more than a decade I worked in trading and portfolio management in China, most recently as a fund manager. I like systems: how markets, teams, and ideas fit together and compound.

Now I'm an MBA candidate at HEC Paris, with a certificate in AI entrepreneurship, spending this fall at Babson. I'm turning that background toward building something of my own.

Contact

Say hello at hello@dentdelions.com, or find me on LinkedIn.