Desmond Lim is an entrepreneur who moved to the US from Singapore in 2013 and graduated from both Harvard and MIT. After that, he relocated to San Francisco to start Workstream.is, a text-based hiring platform for companies hiring hourly workers. Desmond founded his first business after high school, a Thai food restaurant, to help pay for college. Before joining Merrill Lynch for three years, he's represented his native country, Singapore, in basketball, playing in the South East Asian Youth Games, and was an infantry officer in the army.

For more information, visit: http://Brandeis.edu

Resources:

• Workstream: workstream.is
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mynameisdesmond
• Twitter: twitter.com/mynameisdesmond

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