Entrepreneurship & High Finance

Journey to Harvard Business School ft. Apoorva Goyal | Ex Omidyar Network | #E15


Listen Later

Apoorva's journey is truly aspirational. An IIT Kanpur alumni, Apoorva is all set to be part of investment team of Insight Partners (world's leading technology focussed PE fund - https://www.insightpartners.com/) in India. He started his career in an operations role at the Indian conglomerate, ITC, before pivoting to take up an investing role in the esteemed impact fund - Omidyar Network India.  


Apoorva Goyal's profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/apoorvago... 


Time codes:  0:00 - Introduction 0:58 - Inspiration  7:35 - Starting career in operations 13:06 - Interesting switch to Omidyar 18:25 - How is Omidyar different from other VCs? 25:12 - Why go for an MBA? 28:22 - Profiles from India getting admitted 35:12 - Adv. of having pre-MBA PE experience 37:35 - Competitive process for getting post-MBA PE job 40:11 - Take on legacy students at HBS 42:41 - Future plans

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Entrepreneurship & High FinanceBy Buyside Hippies


More shows like Entrepreneurship & High Finance

View all
Growth Investor with GrowthCap‘s RJ Lumba by RJ Lumba

Growth Investor with GrowthCap‘s RJ Lumba

32 Listeners

The Markets by Goldman Sachs

The Markets

80 Listeners