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Born in the small town of Liyang in Jiangsu province near Shanghai and with an undergrad degree from Tsinghua University, his smarts, enthusiasm and dedication helped him land him a job within a few weeks, as a marketing director of cloud computing startup Dao-Gene in Beijing.

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In the case of DAO and ME2 the sales figures show a sharp rise several weeks in, which can only have come from word of mouth sales.

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Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao.

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