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In Chapter 14 of 18 in his 2011 Capture Your Flag interview, Internet entrepreneur Anatole Faykin answers "What Has Been the Most Gratifying Part of Starting a Company?"  He describes waking up each day and having the freedom to choose what he does.  Faykin finds the experience liberating and, also, fundamental to enjoying the entrepreneurial life.  Faykin is the founder of Tuanpin, a Shanghai-based daily deals site he grew to 25 employees and sold in the fall of 2011.  Previously, he worked for British Telecom in London, Intel in Shanghai, American Express in New York, and Oracle in San Francisco as well as several startup ventures.  He holds an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business and a BS in computer science and biology from the California Institute of Technology.