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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Business
Stephanie Cruz

Stanford Graduate Quit McKinsey to Chase Her Baking Dream, Now Her Microbakery Sells 400 Pastries a Week

Hali Mo packages orders at a Hali Home Bakes pop-up, where the menu ranges from chilli crisp scallion rolls to miso banana pain suisse. (Credit: LI/ Hali Mo)

Hali Mo built the kind of CV that usually points toward a corner office. She went from Stanford to a summer analyst job at McKinsey, stayed on as a consultant, moved into design consulting, and then became a senior product manager at the trucking startup CloudTrucks. She left all of it to bake.

Today she runs Hali Home Bakes, a French-Asian microbakery in San Francisco that she says now turns out around 400 pastries a week.

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