 He was educated in Buc at a Franco-German high school, the Deutsch-Französisches Gymnasium in Buc.He went on to study a mixture of mathematics, economics and political science at Berkeley, the Sorbonne University, and Sciences Po, where he delivered the school's commencement speech in 2017.Paul Duan started his career as a data scientist of Eventbrite, a Silicon Valley event management and ticketing start up.