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Episode #13: Jen DeAngelis of the EWMBA ’20 class talks with us about her amazing career as a digital marketing expert in the early days of social media and influencer marketing. We discuss how marketing firms and businesses can track online and offline transactions related to social media marketing. We explore how social media influencers and micro-influencers are discovered and the impact of this advertising platform. We also get an in-depth view of how social media user data is accessed and used by marketers in the light of recent events with Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. Jen then shares insights on Facebook "Shadow Profiles" and how it is important for users to give consent of their data to corporations. We switch gears to why she chose an MBA at Haas, and her future plans as an entrepreneur and being a social media influencer herself to further promote #girlboss! She shares how supportive the Haas family is with the different paths and choices we all make. Follow Jen on Instagram @jenwandersofficial and YouTube!

Episode #12: Farid Hosseini of the EWMBA ’20 class speaks with us about his extensive experiences in Product Management from starting at Microsoft Messenger as a developer to moving into his first PM role at Microsoft Bing. He then went on to LinkedIn to serve as the Product Manager to build out a specific feature of LinkedIn that we all use today, the ability to look up alumni from your school or organization. Next, he went on to explore Product Management at a higher level at Yelp and joined the growth team, which helps grow the user base of the product as a whole and not just one specific feature. After his success with his team at Yelp, he transitioned to Pinterest to tackle the monetization of Pinterest’s many features. Farid discusses with us why he’s at Haas, to further hone his business acumen, and how he seeks to broaden his perspectives for future business endeavors. We wrap up talking about his entrepreneurial projects and advice he has for budding entrepreneurs.

Episode #11: Melissa Mendez Ochoa of the EWMBA ’20 program talks with us about her work at a local non-profit and her involvement with the Berkeley Fellows Program from the sponsoring organization’s side at Oakland Leaf Foundation, a local organization serving K-12 students with important after-school programs. She also talks about a new initiative, the Teacher Fellowship Program, that helps schools train and recruit better teachers. We touch upon social responsibility for for-profit organizations and wrap-up talking about the Berkeley Haas defining principles as our school transitions to a new dean. If you would like to learn more about the Oakland Leaf Foundation or Berkeley Fellows Program, please reach out to the program office.

Episode #10: Steve Keim Full-Time MBA '19 speaks with us about moving from an undergraduate degree in accounting to finance at Haas. Steve shares with us how he recruited for banking in and out of the Bay Area and he is one of the few students who successfully landed an internship outside of the Bay Area. If you are interested in investment banking or finance recruiting, this is a must-hear episode where Steve breaks down the critical timeline for recruiting and his experience through the first few months of coming into Haas. If you are interested in learning more about banking and finance recruiting, please join the Finance Club at Haas and reach out to CMG resources for more information on the finance career path.

Episode #09: Matt Saverin (EWMBA '20) is one of the many intriguing Haas students with unordinary backgrounds. He grew up training for professional snowboarding, had a stint in entrepreneurship in college, but somehow ended up as an Equity Analyst at Goldman Sachs. His wealth of experience and admirable focus and dedication to his crafts gives a different perspective of a Haas student who knows exactly what he's getting out of his MBA experience.

The OneHaas podcast is always looking for feedback and student co-hosts to make this podcast more valuable for all the students at Haas. Our mission is to promote more interprogram connectivity of the Haas family, between the FT, EW, and Executive programs. With over 1200 Haas MBA students on campus every year, there is more to this network than meets the eye. We hope to bridge that gap ever so slightly and introduce you to people you never knew you had in your Haas network. 

Episode #08: I was fortunate enough to catch up with Eppa Rixey before one of our Saturday classes. Eppa (EWMBA ’19) is a Strategic Planning Manager at Lagunitas Brewing Company. We start off by sharing his experiences as a Management Consultant at Bain after his undergrad, making the move into breweries, and choosing Haas to continue his thirst for knowledge. We also talk about the economics of local businesses and share his favorite beers at Lagunitas for all you craft beer lovers.

Episode #07: I am joined by Nate Pollak of the Executive MBA 2018 program. Nate’s background started in Management Consulting out of his undergrad and after four years he decided to start a restaurant in San Francisco at the height of the recession. Throughout our conversation, we talk about the type of mindset you need to have and the hustle required to succeed as an entrepreneur. We then turn around and talk about wrestling with failure yet maintaining a student always mentality. If you are interested in what Nate is up to or want to reach out to him regarding his businesses, you can reach him at [email protected].

Episode #06: Today we speak with Gagan Dhaliwal of the Full-Time 2019 program. He hails from our friendly neighbor, Canada, and comes from a background in medicine. We start off talking about how an MBA made sense for him as a doctor and the role business has in the healthcare industry. We then talk about his time at Haas as an international student, some of his challenges, and his involvement as the co-president of the Haas Politics and Policy Club. We wrap up with very astute advice for incoming and prospective students on how to improve their short time at Haas. For more information about the Haas Politics and Policy Club or to reach out to Gagan, you can reach him at [email protected].

Episode #05: Today we share an episode from Founded@Berkeley with Kourosh Zamanizadeh (EWMBA '18). He is the COO and co-founder of Ping Inc. Awarded 2017’s LegalTech Startup of the Year by the American Bar Association, Ping is an enterprise SaaS company that automates timekeeping for lawyers and provides analytics on time and billing data for law firms. Kourosh shares with us the founders' journey from quitting their jobs and flying to London to land their first client, to finding and building a support system around your startup.

Founded@Berkeley is a co-production between Berkeley Entrepreneurship Association and Haas Business School Students, Ann Snitko and Sean Li. Our mission is to bring the UC Berkeley entrepreneurship ecosystem closer than ever and find key ingredients of Berkeley founders success.

Episode #04: Today I speak with Luca Cosentino (FTMBA '19) who is co-president of the Berkeley Entrepreneurs Association (BEA). We hear about his background from Rome to Berkeley and we discuss the current entrepreneurial ecosystem for Berkeley students. We expand on ideas for improving inter-school entrepreneurship and collaboration by connecting and bringing together the engineering school, law school, business school, medical school, etc. If you're interested in learning more about BEA, how you can get exposure to entrepreneurship, or how you can help out feel free to reach out to Luca via email at [email protected].