Buddhist monk gets job at Meta with roughly Rs 3 crore pay, now challenging Accenture

Buddhist monk gets job at Meta with roughly Rs 3 crore pay, now challenging Accenture

Lilly Chen, a former Buddhist monk and Meta engineer, now leads FSH Technologies as it competes for government contracts against Accenture. She says lessons from monastic life shape the company's push to modernise public sector technology.

I dropped out of high school at 16 to become a Buddhist monk. Now I run a startup taking on Accenture.

Lilly Chen, founder and CEO of FSH Technologies, just raised $25 million in funding.Outlier Partners30-year-old Lilly Chen is the founder of FSH Technologies, which recently raised $25 million.FSH Technologies competes with firms like Accenture to help modernize government technology systems.Chen spent two years as a Buddhist monk, which she said taught her valuable leadership lessons.This is a conversation with Lilly Chen, the 30-year-old found…