In this episode of "Breaking Down Careers", we have Mehul Fanawala with us, the Founder of The Clueless Company, who has like 14 years of experience in Sales (Oh, yes his LinkedIn says he's a Sales Therapist which is really cool according to me).

What's in it for you: 

0:00 Introduction 

0:57 What is B2B SaaS Sales & Support?  

02:34 His journey in his previous organization where he spent 14 years. 

04:30 What caused him to start The Clueless Company? Why the shift? 

08:14 How was the shift from a job to a startup? 

11:40 What qualities did he look for when looking for a co-founder or partner?  

13:37 What is The Clueless Company all about and why the name? 

19:15 As a Founder, what does his day look like? 

21:35 Has it been difficult for him to promote the service-based startup on social media?  

25:08 How has the community building part been for the TCC 

27:19 What are the key things to focus on while building a community 

29:20 The innovative tagline on LinkedIn (Founder & Sales Therapist) 

31:11 How does he manage all his social media handles on his own?  

35:02 Prerequisites for getting into sales or support. 

40:56 How do you manage the work-life balance? 

43:00 Handling the finance - essential tips 

47:30 An advice to youngsters  

Mehul's socials: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehulfanawala/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MehulFanawala

Back with the 10th episode of "Breaking Down Careers" power-packed with entrepreneurial experiences of Udit Goenka specifically in the SaaS space. We spoke about his entrepreneurial journey, his current startup 'PitchGround', the importance of community, educating the users, building a SaaS product, angel investing, growth, and social media.   

This episode is really awesome, hope you like it. If you do like it, then do share it with your friends, and don't forget to like, share and subscribe!  

Udit's socials: 

LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/uditgoenka

Twitter: https://twitter.com/iuditg 

PitchGround: https://pitchground.com/

Back with another episode of “Breaking Down Careers” with Abbas Shaikh. He's a Web3 Strategist, NFT enthusiast, and is a part of Superteam DAO.    This episode is really insightful as Abbas explains to us the role of Web3 Strategist and the shift of domains from marketing to tech. He also talked about NFTs, and what is DAO, and explained who should be investing in this very volatile domain. We also talked about his content creation, personal finance, and general advice for anyone who's watching this video.  I really hope you like this conversation and find it insightful.

Abbas's socials:  

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Abbasshaikh42

Instagram: https://instagram.com/0xabbas.eth?utm_medium=copy_link

We are back with another episode of "Breaking Down Careers" with Shreya Pattar (known as the LinkedIn girl). She holds great professional experience in content writing and digital marketing and currently runs her own agency.  In this freelancing journey, she also managed to create a massive personal brand around freelancing content over various social media platforms like LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter.  She is also helping others to find clients, and making money through her e-books: 

Twitter Anthology: https://shreyapattar.gumroad.com/l/twitteranthology

Cashing in on LinkedIn: https://shreyapattar.gumroad.com/l/linkedincash

Freelancing Freedom: https://shreyapattar.gumroad.com/l/ffreedom 

This podcast episode is different because we finally have someone from a freelancing background and it's good to have someone as experienced and pro as Shreya to guide us all!

Anjali Sharma is an assistant product manager at Bajaj Finserv Health. She's a very enthusiastic person who comes from an electrical background in engineering. Being an explorer from the start, she tried out different domains and finally ended up pursuing product management💯  She's also been actively engaging in different communities including the one with no-code. And has a great number of followers on LinkedIn and Twitter. She also likes to read a lot and puts a lot of emphasis on it in this episode 🔥  

If you have any doubts regarding the role she's pursuing, feel free to reach out to her through her socials

This is a short clip featuring where Vedang (currently a Software Engineer at Microsoft) decides to sum up the whole placement season in one paragraph. He also talks about the preparation style that can be used by the students pursuing Computer Science.   

If you like this clip and want to listen to more of him, here's the full podcast link with him: https://youtu.be/JyZLBTa6fAc 

If you like the conversation with Vedang as we did, reach out to him with doubts through the socials given below: 

Vedang’s socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/sookha_puri

Back with another episode of "Breaking down Careers" with Madhav Bahl (aka The Lean Programmer). Madhav is currently working as a Software Engineer at Microsoft. He is also a YouTuber where he makes tutorials for full-stack development. He has always had a thing for public speaking, which makes him such a great communicator and hence has hosted many events as well as judged hackathons per see. He also writes some awesome blogs around tech, personal growth, and motivation. Now looking at this as a whole, we see that he has a strong social media presence and has his own personal brand i.e. The Lean Programmer!   Had a really insightful episode with him, as to how does he manage all of this so well, the power of being disciplined, why healthy competition is okay, basic tips going about the first job experience, and a lot more!

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/madhavbahl/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theleanprogrammer/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheLeanProgrammer

Medium Blogs: https://madhavbahl.medium.com/

The Lean Programmer blogs: https://medium.com/theleanprogrammer

The Lean Programmer newsletter: tinyletter.com/TheLeanProgrammer

In this segment, Tanishq talks about different cryptocurrencies and the use-cases for the blockchain underlying it.   

If you want to geek out more on this topic, feel free to check out his blog: https://www.thepragmaticoptimist.net/crypto-101 else reach out to him through his socials for any doubts/queries: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanishq-wadhwani/ 

In case of any doubts/feedback/suggestions feel free to reach out to us on the podcast email OR personally through our socials.  

Pep and Prep Talks!  

Email: [email protected]

Ever wondered about the key difference between all these fancy technological terms: Data Science, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence, which are used interchangeably by people around.  

In this episode of “Breaking Down Careers”, we have Akshay Toshniwal who is currently working as a Technical Lead at Mindtree. He is an Associate Editor at the AI Time Journal, conducting interviews and podcasts with some of the top minds in the data and AI industry He holds immense experience in the data science and AI domain for 4+ years (in areas like Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, and more). Apart from this, he creates content in his free time on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter.  In this episode, we spoke about what his role is like at Mindtree, defining the terms Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI, time management, personal finance, and much more. I hope you like this episode and find it really insightful!

If you have any doubts pertaining to the experience Akshay holds, feel free to reach out to him on his socials: https://expy.bio/akshaytoshniwal or on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ToshniwalAkshay

In case of any doubts/feedback/suggestions feel free to reach out to us on the podcast email OR personally through our socials. 

Pep and Prep Talks!  Email: [email protected] 

Host's socials: Bilwa Gaonker: https://expy.bio/bilwa_gaonker

In this fourth episode of “Breaking Down Careers” we have Tanishq Wadhwani who has founded two startups C4 Projects and Glitter Finance. He has done his B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering from the Vellore Insitute of Technology. Apart from experiencing the whole startup game and culture, he has worked extensively on the technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, and Extended Reality.  This episode is damn insightful because we have questions starting from:  What is Blockchain? What applications are the most suited to this hot upcoming technology? What cryptocurrencies are really useful? What are NFTs? What does a roadmap to learn Blockchain looks like? And much more.

If you have any genuine doubts regarding the plethora of topics covered in the podcast, feel free to reach out to Tanishq through the social handles linked below:    

Tanishq's socials:   

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanishq-wadhwani

Personal website: https://www.thepragmaticoptimist.net/

In case of any doubts/feedback/suggestions feel free to reach out to us on the podcast email OR personally through our socials.  

Pep and Prep Talks!  

Email: [email protected]

Hosts Socials: 

Bilwa Gaonker: https://expy.bio/bilwa_gaonker  

Manav Lakhadive Twitter: https://twitter.com/manav_lakhadive LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manavlakhadive